Silly Question About Potato Peelings

**many houseapes** · 03-31-2009, 02:01 PM

What do you do with your potato peelings when you make mashed potatoes?Do you throw them out, give them to the chickens or what?? On Sunday, I made a big pot of mashed potatoes & used 10# of potatoes. I know this may sound a bit odd, but I put all of the peelings(clean & free of dirt) in a gallon sized zip loc baggie & put them in the fridge. The next night I fried the peelings like I would regular potato wedges - excellent

I'd like to hear what others do with their potato peelings and left over's

**WV_mom_of2** · 03-31-2009, 02:21 PM

I feed potato peelings to the pet rabbits. They love them! I also give them carrot peelings, cantalope peelings, the outer leaves from lettuce and cabbage, etc.

I use up leftovers by either sending them with dh in his lunch or eating them for lunch myself!

**debbiepete** · 03-31-2009, 02:36 PM

We wash our potatoes before peeling and then deep fry the peels then salt. A very tasty treat.

**Spirit Deer** · 03-31-2009, 02:39 PM

We just mash them in with the rest of the potatoes.

We've been doing that for years and saw recently on a cooking show that it's a "new" technique for making "gourmet" mashed potatoes. Yeah, whatever.

**mauimagic** · 03-31-2009, 02:52 PM

Love this idea of using them instead of clogging up the garbage disposal as I have been know to do - ugh!! How about cheese and salsa on top? Yummy!!

**Thevail** · 03-31-2009, 02:55 PM

We do that, bake them with a little salt and papper and make potachos ...awesome. I don't tend to freeze them though, I thought they had a wierd texture afterwards.

But my neighbor is getting chickens so very soon...I'll feed them to his chickens.

**frugal.lass** · 03-31-2009, 03:40 PM

Thevail, is that pronounced "poTAYchos" or "poTAHchos"???

This isn't a silly thread at all...I always just send my peels with the compost pickup but I KNEW there had to be something to do with them. I'll be watching for more great ideas!

**cheappearls** · 03-31-2009, 07:30 PM

If I don't mash the potatoes with the skins still on, I put the peels in my compost bin.

**MomToTwoBoys** · 03-31-2009, 08:34 PM

We used to toss them. Now I make potatoes with the peels still in them. The kids aren't too fond, so I might just take them and bake them with some seasonings in place of throwing them right out.

**LucyOctopus** · 03-31-2009, 11:08 PM

I like to bake them with a bit of olive oil, salt, and crushed black pepper. Other times I throw them out with the compost.

**Must-Stash** · 03-31-2009, 11:31 PM

I've just been composting them

Thanks to everybody for the great ideas. I'm so lacking in creativity.

**Denvergirlie** · 04-01-2009, 12:04 AM

We feed them to the worms (we vermicompost) or if the worms don't need the food, they go to the normal compost pile.

**Neeley** · 04-01-2009, 12:14 AM

We mash them in with the potatoes.

**kittykatstrong** · 04-01-2009, 12:35 AM

we just mash them in because frankly I am to lazy to peel them.

**Scattymum** · 04-01-2009, 03:04 AM

i just put them in the composter, I dont give them to the chickens as i was told on a chicken forum that they were poisonous? dont know how true that is but i didnt want to risk it!