I'm SO guilty of doing that!! It works! When you don't have enough potatoes, instant really make up the difference.

My kids loves this and its really cheap to buy and soooooo easy to make so I buy this all the time.

I can usually manage to make the fake potatoes taste pretty cloe to the real thing. But it does take a good bit of effort.

Fake Mashed Potatoes is all chemicals. Not good for us.

I used to keep fake potatoes on hand, but I've just gotten in the habit of watching for big bags of potatoes on sale and that way I can always make my own (which taste better anyways) or bake them, or one of the other million and one things to do with a potato.