Yeah, not the powdered instant. I meant something like the Bob Evans in the fridge or frozen section. I’ve never bought it, I don’t remember exactly where it is in the supermarket. I think Ore-Ida makes frozen also. Where I went for Thanksgiving my friend used some sort of microwaveable package of mashed potatoes.
I do use the envelope of Idahoan powdered baby reds sometimes and add a boiled potato to it, so it’s half the real thing half instant, and it comes out pretty good, but really if you’re going to bother peeling the potatoes and boiling you might as well do the whole thing from scratch. I rarely have whole milk or butter in the house, so the fake powder stuff kind of takes the place and mixed with a real potato tastes closer to real if my husband suddenly decides he’d like mashed and I’m not prepared with all of the ingredients. I usually have one of those envelopes in the house as a pantry “back-up.”
You could buy it from a restaurant or fast food too, but that would be more expensive.