AIBU to think pasta and sauce isn't a proper meal?

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Everyone always goes on about how it's sooo easy and filling and nice but it has no protein; it isn't filling, it's just stodge with a bit of flavouring...I mean I'd eat it if I was hungry but AIBU to think it isn't really a proper, filling meal?

Pasta, pesto and cheese is one of my favourite lazy meals.

I always make a tomato pasta sauce but put in a load of veg too, I take it you're one of these people OP who can't cope with a meal without meat?

boofy- which country are you from?

I adore pasta and would eat it every day if I could! Of course it's a proper meal - it's often an incredibly well balanced and digestible one.

Yabu.
Love a good pasta. Or even a mediocre one sometimes.

YANBU to think that, but YABU to expect everyone to share your tastes and requirements for protein at every meal.

D minus for science, OP, go to the back of the class.

example:

nutritiondata.self.com/facts/cereal-grains-and-pasta/5798/2

Why do you care OP? Don't like it? Don't make it. It's fairly simple. Can't say it bothers me at all what other people feed their families.

Pasta with a cheesy sauce? So, like macaroni cheese? YABU.

OP starts off referring to "pasta and sauce" but then carves out bolognese and, presumably, other sauces with meat?

If by sauce OP means shop-bought sauce of whatever, then I agree. Pasta with oil and garlic would be much preferable (more appetising, healthier and more filling, which OP says are her criteria).

But the problem is neither pasta nor "sauce", it is the quality of both. Good, home made tomato-based sauces (maybe Trapanese pesto, which is tomato, basil, almond), or fish sauces, or other vegetable sauces, can be a perfect meal, way preferable to any combination of meat and two veg. It is a question of quality of ingredients, quality of execution and personal taste.

my kids love it as well - I do it so they can self serve - Pasta, cheese sauce, tomato sauce, olives, veg, cheese and they make their own

it's nice and filling and healthy (home made sauces, whole wheat pasta etc)

People are so precious about food on this forum.

^^ Absolutely agree, there is so much fuss about food and reading the 'menu plans' for the week always makes me giggle.

Half of mumsnetters seem to begrudge giving a £ or two for school mufti days and the other half cook sea bass or whatever as an ordinary week day meal. . Even a ham sandwich has to be 'naice' ham. .

I'm pretty sure the OP means Pasta N Sauce, as in the bachelors packet stuff....

This stuff...

Pasta with Heinz tomato soup with cheese on top.

Yum and filling.

Pasta is filling anyway

'The right number of calories'

And what, pray, is the 'right number'?

Does anyone actually believe those mad what's for dinner threads on here? Really? I thought they were being terribly clever and ironic and UberMumsnetty. Y'know, a bit of a pisstake of middle class food?

Because we all know that their kids aren't really having braised organic chicken livers served with 87 organic Abel and Cole vegetables with a drizzle of balsamic all served on a bed of Puy lentils with some celeriac foam. They're having crispy pancakes and those potato things shaped into a smiley face like the rest of us.

Aren't they?

Durham wheat spaghetti

Drank

I don't!

They Google posh menus while eating turkey twizzzlers

Agree with most of what you're saying Drank but why is sea bass not a normal week night dinner?! It is here, because it's really quick and easy (and it's the only fish DH and DD will eat!)

Fresh pasta is made with eggs, which have a lot of protein.

If you read the threads they start a bit normal then the competition starts and before you know it one poster is eaten hand reared pig and some unpronounceable sauce with veg they grow on their windowsill

My dd was given pasta with milk and sugar for breakfast when she went to Romania on an exchange trip. Plenty of protein in that if you fancy giving it a try?

Drank - I made that comment once and was shouted down by lots of posters who claimed that they really did cook from scratch seven nights a week - a full healthy menu with mostly organic veg if not home grown.

I love the way having home grown veg and cooking from scratch is considered posh and having processed supermarket ready meals is not.

How times have changed!

Where I live everyone eats homegrown because a frozen pizza from the supermarket is about 10 quid. Turkey twizlers are big city food for sophisticated people. Ironic!

crabb
Durham wheat spaghetti
Yes, that was me. But I least I knew there was protein in pasta!