How many grams of pasta do you have per serving?

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Just wondering what a sensible portion of dry pasta is for a healthy serving?

I do two handfuls per person for me or my DDs or a 500gm bag for the four of us as DH will hoover up any spare. We don't eat it with a heavy sauce or meat so dont mind it being a bit over portion wise.

I use 250g for five of us (two adults, three children aged 6 and under) and that's about right. Sometimes there are leftovers but there never isn't enough.

I started weighing it because I constantly made too much and had to throw it away!

I started weighing it because I constantly made too much and had to throw it away!

Why? You could have used it for pasta salad.

A 500g bag does 6 portions, so about 80 g per portion. Dry weight of course.

On that note, I'm dieting at the moment and it drives me up the wall websites and products listing nutrition by cooked weight. I weigh my ingredients before cooking not after!

Am baffled at the people who throw leftover pasta away.

PS: The pasta is actually something I don't weigh, I just eyeball the fraction of the pack. Other things I do weigh, like rice; even when I wasn't dieting I was terrible for misjudging how much rice to cook.

Yes if you ever make too much why would you not save it for another day rather than bin it.

Erm. I don't really measure properly

But... about 2 big handfuls each of penne, twists etc for me & teen DD, 3 for DH

About a 2cm finger & thumb circles working of spaghetti for us & 3cm circles worth for DH

Which is always spot on for us, sometimes I'll have a bit less than DD

Yes. I find the easiest way for me to put on weight is to eat massive portions of carbs. I eat totally normally. If I don’t weigh my 80g of pasta. half a mug full of rice/cous cous etc, that easily doubles and I put weight on. I wouldn’t call that a diet.

I would find that restrictive, having to stick to strict weights & weighing it out in case it was 10/20g over. So for me that would be a diet but you can disagree.

Weighing rice and pasta isn't dieting. It's odd that you would think that. It's just being sensible. I don't weigh vegetables, and meat/fish comes in portions anyway so I don't weigh that either.

But that makes perfect sense. I don't diet because I weigh pasta and rice.

Maybe I'm odd then, weighing out my carbs & sticking to set weights would be a diet for me.

100 each

I used to just bung a load in and hope for the best... however, for the past year I've become a big fan of using my fitness pal and not being sure of the weight annoyed me, so now I weigh everything, and have 75g pasta

I do about 50g of dry pasta for me, 75 for dh. A little more for fresh pasta.

Weighing rice and pasta isn't dieting. It's odd that you would think that. It's just being sensible.

I don't think it's odd that I have a different opinion of what a diet is to you. You can be sensible without weighing out carbs.

@emilyintheSE

Another confused poster here wondering why so many of you weigh out your pasta

Just why?

Because if I cook myself too much it goes to waste. I got into the habit when I was calorie counting, a few years back. I have digital scales so it's hardly difficult.

@RampantIvy

I started weighing it because I constantly made too much and had to throw it away!

Why? You could have used it for pasta salad.

You can't do that if you do it properly and toss the pasta in the sauce before serving.

125g EACH for me and DP, plus 125g for DCs (3 & 5) Judging by this thread, we must be right greedy guts!

80-100g. I tend to have pasta as its own meal in just a sauce but if I were to have it with something else such as chicken or fish I would have less.

You can't do that if you do it properly and toss the pasta in the sauce before serving.

True. In which case I would reheat it for lunch.

I'm rubbish at getting pasta quantities right so I actually read the packet last night when I was cooking linguine.

The packet said 500g served approximately 6. I measured out 200g for two of us as I'd only had a bagel for breakfast all day and I was starving. DC ate more than me so I reckon I was bang on the recommendation which was more than usual for me.

@Decorbreadthegingerate

I count out eight tubes of penne

Based on normal MN threads I can't tell whether this is a joke or not .

@ArcheryAnnie

Am baffled at the people who throw leftover pasta away.

But it goes all rubbery doesn't it?

No it doesn't go rubbery. A few minutes in the microwave, maybe adding a little water first, and it will be fine. I'm shocked that someone would throw leftover spaghetti Bolognese or lasagne away.

I never weigh anything, in fact I don’t even own kitchen scales. I just guess! Couple of handfuls each!