If you cook pesto with pasta do you use a whole jar?

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Is this where I'm going wrong as I've only ever used a scoop from the jar yet see many suggestions to use a jar??

No way. It's not far off 1,000 calories a jar

Also that's too much anyway. A spoon per person is fine. Desert spoon type amount

I do have to laugh at 'those' posters. Pesto and pasta is a cheap and easy tea for us. I'm not spending the time nor money on pissing about making my own pesto.

Whole jar but save some of combined pesto n pasta for another meal. I've learnt that saving part of a jar of pesto just results in it malingering in the fridge til it gets chucked out.

Half a jar for 4 servings. With a splash of balsamic. DH would just use a teaspoonful though, he seems to think it is a condiment not a sauce!

I use it thus:

A dollop on top of bruschetta
Smear a layer on the base of a Pyrex dish, add pasta/veggies then pour over cheese sauce and bake.

I make my own, I even grow most of the ingredients too... It just tastes really nice.....

3-4 portions = 1 jar for us

I use half a jar and then mark the date opened on the jar with a Sharpie.

You can buy jars of pesto?

@Cocksinsocks but that's only 250 cals per person. I know you've pasta too but if it's a main meal that would be ok wouldn't it?

It's a quick and easy tea for my DS, he just has a tsp mixed with pasta.

@joystir59

Whole jar but save some of combined pesto n pasta for another meal. I've learnt that saving part of a jar of pesto just results in it malingering in the fridge til it gets chucked out.

We do the same.

Love pesto here! Mix it with couscous and put it in peppers before baking. Delicious! Mix it with pasta and serve with roasted vegetables.

I’ll have to stop thinking about it because it’s making me hungry.

@BowserJr

I do have to laugh at 'those' posters. Pesto and pasta is a cheap and easy tea for us. I'm not spending the time nor money on pissing about making my own pesto.

It's not very cheap, though, for those tiny jars and especially if you can't take cheese and have to buy a vegan one.

It's hardly pissing about, a bunch of spinach, olive oil, nooch, nuts, garlic, pepper, a bit of salt, lemon juice in a food processor.

@osbertthesyrianhamster

That’s a huge amount of faff for me and I don’t have half of those ingredients just in so buying the jar is cheaper and easier for us. We’re not vegan either or gluten/lactose free.

[quote BeingATwatItsABingThing]@osbertthesyrianhamster

That’s a huge amount of faff for me and I don’t have half of those ingredients just in so buying the jar is cheaper and easier for us. We’re not vegan either or gluten/lactose free.[/quote]
Okay, so for you it's a faff. For others it's not at all and definitely not cheaper.

[quote WeWantAMackerelNotASprat]@Cocksinsocks but that's only 250 cals per person. I know you've pasta too but if it's a main meal that would be ok wouldn't it?[/quote]
I am admittedly watching my diet but I'd rather have 50/100 cals of pesto and use the rest for something more notionally beneficial, even if just chicken for the protein.

A teaspoon does 4 here, so about 6 servings a jar... depending on brand the salt in a jar can be pretty high!

@Chamonixshoopshoop

A teaspoon does 4 here, so about 6 servings a jar... depending on brand the salt in a jar can be pretty high!

A teaspoon does 4? I'm not a big eater so feel a lot stingier than most pps, but that really is very small.

What else do you put on? Or are you one of the MN ladies who can make a roast chicken feed a family for a week?

I use about half a jar, just for me, and always add cream too, with bacon and olives.
Its an old favourite.

Christ alive, I dont care how many calories are in it and I don't find it expensive.
I have made my own, I could do so again if I wanted to but quite frankly, I can't be bothered.
The MN food weirdos are here again.

@Chamonixshoopshoop

A teaspoon does 4 here, so about 6 servings a jar... depending on brand the salt in a jar can be pretty high!

A teaspoon? Can you even taste the pesto?

@IHaveBrilloHair

Christ alive, I dont care how many calories are in it and I don't find it expensive. I have made my own, I could do so again if I wanted to but quite frankly, I can't be bothered. The MN food weirdos are here again.

Agreed, if we have pasta & pesto that’s the whole dinner so I’ve never thought about the calories or salt, and I can’t be arsed faffing about making pesto, that would completely defeat the object of it being a quick easy meal.

@IHaveBrilloHair

Christ alive, I dont care how many calories are in it and I don't find it expensive. I have made my own, I could do so again if I wanted to but quite frankly, I can't be bothered. The MN food weirdos are here again.

Op starts thread about pesto and people reply with their thoughts on pesto. WEIRDOS

Just a teaspoon per person for me. It's a bit too strong for chucking in the whole jar. A fresh one, I would use more.