What to do with 30 lbs of sweet potatoes?

Well, they were on sale for .19/lb, and I got a little carried away. Now I have 30 pounds of sweet potatoes to use up, freeze, preserve, or give to my neighbors.
I like to dice and roast them with chili powder, salt/pepper, and a little cinnamon. I haven’t tried freezing them that way, but maybe I will. I suppose I can also bake and freeze the innards for mashed sweet potatoes, which I could use in various recipes or plain.
Now…what to do with the other 20 pounds?

You could use about 5 pounds to make a great big sweet potato pie.

I could sub mashed sweet potatoes for pumpkin in pumpkin bread, right? I could make a bunch of that and freeze it.
I have tomorrow off so I’m envisioning a sweet potato marathon!

they keep dry and cool. a tater a day.

As already well mentioned, sweet potato pie!
Sweet potato fries.
Baked sweet potato with lots and lots of butter.

Only .19/lb??? I need to shop where you shop. I love sweet potatoes.

grow a sweet potato vine!

My favorite sweet potato recipe: chicken stew.

Sweet potatoes make great french fries.

My family are all fond of my sweet potato bread, I’m sure you can find a recipe online to use. There’s also oatmeal sweet potato cookies with chocolate chips. (yeah, can you tell I had a surplus to use a while ago too?)

You could plant them under a couple of bales of spread out straw and have a bunch as needed next year. :slight_smile:

I make this (or very similar, without the whole peanuts) and it’s my Favorite Stew Ever!

carnivorousplant, can you elaborate? I can plant them now and just leave them over the winter, you mean? I’ve never planted any type of potatoes so I don’t have any experience.

I have a wonderful recipe for pumpkin soup that you could substitute sweet potatoes!

Ingredients: pumpkin/sweet potatoes, milk, sausage, onion, mushrooms, Italian seasoning.

Makes you want to hide in the closet with the pot and a spoon, and not share with anyone!
~VOW

In central Arkansas, Zone 7, I’ve tossed Idaho potatoes on the ground in the fall, covered them with straw and harvested them in the spring. They were small, I boiled them and served them with white sauce.
The coldest it gets here is 20 F. YMMV
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