Comfort Food for Trying Times: A Review of Idahoan Buttery Homestyle Mashed Potatoes

The most commented post I have ever had has been about Honest Earth All Natural Creamy Mashed Potatoes.  Unfortunately, Costco does not carry these anymore or at least not on a regular basis.  With the last of our stash of them gone, my lovely wife restocked us with some Idahoan Buttery Homestyle Mashed Potatoes.

 They come eight pouches to a box for $6.49 so the cost is reasonable for upscale instant mashed potatoes.

The individual packages are easy to open foil pouches.  Each package has four servings each so the whole box is 32 servings, making the cost about 20 cents a serving.

My wife likes to make them a measuring cup so she doesn't have to dirty more than one dish making them.  Obviously, if you are serving company and want a nice presentation then you would want to use a more elegant bowl or dish to serve them in.

We recently had these with some ham with glaze and a salad and it made for a quick but very tasty complete meal.

These are very good potatoes but I am sure people are wondering if these are as good as the Honest Earth ones.  While these are excellent instant mashed potatoes, they are not as good.  I definitely prefer the texture and body of the Honest Earth Potatoes along with the flavor.  Also, the Idahoan Potatoes are made so that butter is not part of the preparation.  You can certainly add butter to them and it adds to the taste but it also does affect the texture and body a little so that does impact the comparison.

Now let me be perfectly clear, these are very good potatoes at a good price that are well packaged but they are not as good as Honest Earth.  But they absolutely have my full and complete endorsement
and we will definitely buy them again.  They are a tasty, affordable and easy way to add potatoes to a meal.

Also, in these trying times of Covid19, these are a fabulous comfort food that helps to make life better.

Enjoy and be well!