Cheryl wrote:
> On 3/29/2013 11:34 PM, Julie Bove wrote:
>
>> I love potatoes too and I still eat them but I do have to be careful
>> with the portion size. I just bought a huge bag for $1.28 but am
>> going to give most of them away. Potatoes are not allowed on my
>> daughter's (South Beach) diet. And I can't eat all of those by
>> myself. But I want to make a vegetable soup and they will go well
>> in there. So in the case of a soup or a stew, I tend to put much
>> more of the low carb things and a small amount of potatoes.
>>
>> If I am doing hash browns, I add a lot of red and green bell peppers
>> and onion.
>>
>> If I do something like a Shepherd's or Cottage pie then I put a thin
>> layer of potatoes. So I still have them but I have less than I used
>> to.
>
> I'm making scalloped potatoes to go with our Easter ham, and I usually
> wouldn't add onions because of the kids, but I'm going to add them
> this time so I can have a small portion. The kids can skip them or
> pick out the onions if they don't want them.

See there, I am lucky! People always told me never to add onions to food
for kids because they wouldn't like it. I just started Angela out eating
onions. I guess to her that is what food is. If mom is cooking it, there
is bound to be onions in it! Granted she doesn't like big chunks of onions.
So if I am cooking it for her I will try to mince the onion finely. But
it's going to be in there. And she eats it. And she doesn't complain.

Now my FIL had severe onion issues. For him it was the texture that he
hated. Said they were slimy. My MIL often made Pierogies that were served
with lots of butter and browned onions which she cut in large pieces. Just
watching him trying to eat that dish could be comical. Not for him, though,
I'm sure. Apparently the onions really gave him grief. Funny thing is, he
always had a big garden and onions were something that he grew! He did eat
my food though and I did sometimes put onions in it. I did not cook the
same foods for them that I would necessarily have made at home, knowing that
he didn't like onions. But if I felt that they needed to be there for
flavor, I would use them but be sure to mince them finely. He never
objected to that.

You could perhaps make two smaller dishes of potatoes, one with and one
without onions or just put onions in one half. Of course this is the sort
of thing that kids would normally object to. Ew! Your onions got in MY
half! Or just cut them in large pieces so that they can eat around them. I
do a potato dish by Gordon Ramsey that has slices of onion and potato. My
SIL the onion hater has eaten it twice, just picking out the potatoes. She
liked it.