I love sweet potatoes - I literally eat them everyday! Chopped into cubes baked and thrown on a salad, baked whole with a dalop of plain Greek yogurt, cut length into "rench fries" with a little maple syrup the possibilities are endless! Sweet potatoes along with quinoa and steel cut oats are my main sources of carbs. I eat a small amount of the three generally daily to make up my carbohydrate macros. Sweet potatoes are loaded with micronutrients making them not only an exceltlent source of carbs but also good for our immune system, our nervous and even our blood pressure! I could go on and on with the benefits here.
The one draw back to sweet potatoes is how long it takes to prepare them. Baking them takes close to 45 minutes on average and although they do meal prep well we all have those days that sneak away from you and before you know it it's 6pm and you have nothing prepped for dinner. Would you believe me if I told you your sweet potatoes could be baked in the microwave in under 5 minutes while you throw a salad together!!
Easiest baked sweet potatoes ever-
-scrub the skin of your sweet potato
-wet a paper towel with water and squeeze dry in your hand so the towel is retaining water but not dripping wet
-wrap the sweet potato entirely with the wet paper towel - tucking the towel under the sides of the potato
-microwave for 2-3 minutes (depending on the size of the sweet potato)
-flip over and microwave for another 2-3 minutes
VIOLA!
Side note -
I personally eat the whole sweet potato- the skin is where a lot of the vitamins are!
And honestly it doesn't taste bad when cooked (I think it's more mental that some people think it's gross- try it!)
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