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"Roy" > wrote in message
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> On Saturday, December 27, 2014 1:09:15 AM UTC-7, Julie Bove wrote:
>> "Kalmia" > wrote in message
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>> > On Friday, December 26, 2014 1:13:17 AM UTC-5, Julie Bove wrote:
>> >> > wrote in message
>> >> ...
>> >> >I was already to make mashed potatoes when I started peeling 5 lb
>> >> > of Klondike Rose. Every one had green under the skin. I started
>> >> > peeling
>> >> > deeper and deeper before I said the heck with it,and my wife
>> >> > announced
>> >> > we were serving bread.
>> >> >
>> >> > I looked on the web to see if peeling off the green was sufficient,
>> >> > but
>> >> > the consensus seemed to be why take a chance.
>> >> >
>> >> > Has anyone eaten green potatoes and lived to tell the tale? Are
>> >> > Klondike
>> >> > Rose especially susceptible? I did dig under a pile of bags to find
>> >> > these,
>> >> > fearing light exposure.
>> >>
>> >> I have eaten potatoes with a little green. I cut it off. The last
>> >> time
>> >> I
>> >> ate potatoes with sprouts on them, I got extremely ill. Nobody else
>> >> in
>> >> the
>> >> family did. Just me. But I also now know that I test as having a
>> >> potato
>> >> intolerance. I have tried since to eat potatoes three times and I got
>> >> very
>> >> ill after eating them but not immediately after. In each case it was
>> >> 2-3
>> >> days later so it makes it difficult for me to tell if that was the
>> >> problem
>> >> or not. However, the last time left me extremely ill for 48 hours so
>> >> I
>> >> highly doubt I that I will eat potatoes again unless a new test shows
>> >> otherwise.
>> >
>> > Uh-oh. The list of what you can't or won't eat grows longer and longer
>> > and longer and.......what CAN you eat?

>>
>> Not much. Today I had chicken broth and rice then later, toast. Stomach
>> was upset this morning and not sure why.

>
> You need a new cook...no doubt about it.


No. I just have chronic stomach issues and for whatever reason, now isn't a
good time. Has been this way from birth. I nearly died because I could
keep nothing in me as a baby and young child. Was very underweight.