taxlady: please explain how "potatoes" affect your arthritis, also never heard the term "nightshades"
i'm 68 and have arthritis and consume lots and lots of potatoes and never heard of the connection
Here's a link to what I posted about nightshades and arthritis:I'll be happy to, when I have a few spare minutes. I think there might be a better place to post that than in this thread about how people make hashbrowns.

Nightshade foods and arthritis
I have osteoarthritis. I was diagnosed in November of 2018. I was walking with a cane because of pain in my left hip. I mentioned it on FaceBook and one of my friends wrote that she has osteoarthritis and so does her mother. One of the things that she the most found helpful was eliminating...
