If you don't have an hour, you can make them faster. Microwave the potato for several minutes until fairly soft (poke a few holes in the skin first), then bake in the oven or airfryer to crisp up the skin and finish cooking it. Not quite as good as fully baked, but much quicker and less energy used. Also great for sweet potatoes.

Lemmy's potato weekend, may it replace canned baked beans and its added sugar

Mmmm. Add some of those pickled jalapenos on there and I’d be happy

I'm supposed to limit the amount of rice I consume, so I will sometimes use a baked Japanese sweet potato as the base for a saucy stir-fry or braised dish.

And make them very unhealthy with toppings.

I've been subbing in Greek yogurt for sour cream, and I no longer taste much difference. Some would call it blasphemy, of course. I've found that dried chives (unlike dried cilantro) work pretty well for sitchy-ashuns like this, too. Then there's a sprinkling of nutritional yeast and dried roman / parm, which... is a healthy but pitiful sub for that delicious-looking cheddar there, lol.

As for a fried bacon alt, luckily for me with my fridge still on the fritz, the local super recently put packs of uncured turkey bacon on sale, so I've been grabbing them up. $2.50 for a pack of 14 slices (3oz) where they're normally at ~$7. They store at room temp indefinitely, and kinda taste like a cross between fried bacon and jerky.

The image is enormous, so I don't want to paste it in:
https://godshalls.com/product/fully-cooked-uncured-turkey-bacon/

EDIT: Maybe a solar oven to help replace the fuel / electric cost of one hour of oven's use?

I should have bought more potatoes

OMG so high

I think British people call them jacket potatoes because they’re secretly wearing potato skin jackets

back when fast food was affordable I felt wendys was kinda the best of the chain places. when they had a dollar menu it had two types of side salad and a baked potato that came with sour cream and chives and chili with onions. you could have a pretty healthy lunch for 3 bucks.

"boy dinner"