Great Easy Meals: 15 Loaded Potato Recipes (2024)

Every week we pull together some greatCanadian recipesfrom Canadian food bloggers around the web featuring one main ingredient or dish. This week it's a fan favourite - loaded potato recipes!

Loaded potatoes - they're a favourite for so many reasons:

• they can be as healthy or as decadent as you like
• they're so easy to make
• loaded potatoes can be a complete meal
• they're budget friendly
• you can easily customize loaded potatoes for every family member and every diet (making them great for parties and picnics - create a topping bar! )
• loaded potatoes can be eaten for lunch, breakfast and dinner (yes - even breakfast)
• loaded potatoes are an easy meal from scratch for one person
• ummmm...loaded potatoes are DELICIOUS!

We've got a great collection of loaded potato recipes here for you - baked potatoes, twice baked potatoes, potato skins, loaded nugget potatoes and smashed potatoes. And don't forget, you can do loaded sweet potatoes too!

1. Easy Loaded Twice Baked Potatoes

by Delicious on a Dime

Cheesy, creamy Easy Loaded Twice Baked Potatoes by Delicious on a Dime are sure to be a crowd pleaser for your next potluck - and they're a recipe where you can do most of the work beforehand!

2. "Porter House" Baked Potato Skins

by Celebration Generation

If you're a bacon lover then these are the potato skins for you. "Porter House" Baked Potato Skins by Celebration Generation make generous use of bacon both as a topping and as part of the cooking process - and they have two kinds of toppings. Because variety is the spice of life!

3. Garlic and Lemon Smashed Potatoes

by Salt and Lavender

Smashed nugget potatoes make for a perfect little appetizer or finger food at a party or picnic. You'll want to try Salt and Lavender's Garlic Lemon Smashed Potatoes - they're also a perfect game day snack.

4. Stuffed Breakfast Sweet Potatoes - Three Ways

by Holistic Foodie

Switch up your breakfast routine with these loaded and Stuffed Breakfast Sweet Potatoes from Holistic Foodie. With three topping combos included an egg topping, a yogurt topping and an almond butter topping you'll have lots of healthy and delicious breakfast options!

5. Caesar Twice Baked Potatoes

by Food Meanderings

A Caesar Salad in potato form! Food Meanderings has created these delicious Caesar Twice Baked Stuffed Potatoes with all the flavours you associate with the classic salad!

6. Quick and Easy All Dressed Sweet Potato

by Meghan Telpner

This All Dressed Sweet Potato from Meghan Telpner is a super easy, healthy dinner idea that you can customize to your heart's content. Start off with some beans, hot sauce, greens and sprouts and top it with a delicious homemade tahini dressing!

7. Stuffed Chicken Gyros Touchdown Taters

by Haute and Healthy Living

How cute are these stuffed little nugget potatoes? Haute and Healthy Living created these Stuffed Chicken Gyros "Touchdown" Taters and they even look like little mini footballs. These are a perfect game day snack (and a pretty healthy one at that!) packed with flavour!

8. Smashed Potato Bacon Benny

by The Primal Desire

Here's a unique take on the loaded potato - a Smashed Potato Bacon Benny from The Primal Desire. Perfect for breakfast or dinner!

9. Deluxe Baked Potato For One

by Jo and Sue

If you want the ultimate baked potato you gotta make your own cheese sauce! Jo and Sue have created the Deluxe Baked Potato For One - complete with a cheese sauce that only serves one person. Perfect for those nights where you're on your own but want a satisfying meal from scratch!

More Loaded Potato Recipes

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