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?

I'm guessing you aren't the same poster who's husband complained after she made miso soup, even though she felt 'wonderfully full'.

I'm now making 'red pasta' for dinner inspired by this thread.

I make tomato, pepper and mushroom pasta sauce.

Tons of chunky vegetables, tomato based sauce, easily 2-3 fruit/veg portion. I use brown pasta, sprinkle cheese on top.

Filling and healthy!

WIBU to have really wanted to offer miso soup woman a cup of bovril for her tea? Yes I know her soup was full of nutritious loveliness.

It's a perfectly good light meal, but would tick all the food groups and make a really substantial meal if you added some cheese and a side salad.

Fuckit, I'll have you know that I eat only leash-walked chicken.

Surely most of us are mid way between cooking home grown/reared meals from scratch and eating ready made supermarket meals? .

I cook 'from scratch' a couple of times a week and other meals are leftovers, something on toast or a quick sandwich type meal.

Oh ffs there us nothing wrong with a jar of pasta sauce for the times you don't have time to knock one up!

My son loves those Dolmio stir in sauces. Throw a bit of already cooked chicken in and he's in heaven

Just stodge with a bit of flavouring, that's my national cuisine!
There are so many amazing pasta dishes!

Mind you, we had soo much pasta as children. My brother and I used to think things like fish fingers or potato waffles were the most amazing treat.

Well this thread has made me feel fantastic, as I do cook 'from scratch' most nights. I just assumed most people did?

However, maybe I should feel less fantastic, as some of those 'from scratch' meals are pasta with sauce...

We had pasta and sauce for our main meal yesterday. It wasn't what I'd planned but my children were in a swimming gala last night which finished an hour later than it was scheduled to, and which DH decided to come and watch at the last minute (instead of staying at home and cooking dinner). I can assure you that two very tired and hungry children tucked in with enthusiasm at 9.30 last night.

FGS of course pasta (and probably sauce, unless you make it from water and golden syrup or something) contains protein. It's made from the seed of a plant- do you actually think that grains don't contain protein? How the fuck do you think the baby plants grow into big plants? Just because it's not animal protein doesn't mean your body can't also use it. Really wish basic science was compulsory to age 18 sometimes.

Flour and grains contain, per unit mass, about as much protein as beans- that much touted vegetarian alternative to meat. Stop buying into pseudo-dietician nonsense. Or at least if you must, stop subjecting those of us who paid even minimal attention in secondary school biology to it.

I'm never quite full after pasta and sauce. We usually have bread and olives with it.

I'm with you on this one, OP.

If I eat even a huge plate of pasta and sauce I'm starving hungry ten minutes later because it's just sugar and there's not enough protein. Even if it's a bolognese!

Think it's me though, everyone else seems to be full for hours!?

Great post woodlice.

YABU tell my Italian husband. He seems to function just fine

Yabu.
My Italian husband would quite happily live on pasta. Our favourite is homemade pasta puttanesca with wholemeal pasta and a big spinach, baby tomato and mini mozerella salad.
Not quite sure how anyone wouldn't find that tasty, filling and healthy.

In Yorkshire we have Yorkshire pudding as a starter. The Italians have pasta. The whole point is to fill you up so not much meat or fish is needed with the main course.

What are you on about?

I don't think you have properly understood what goes into the wide vvariety of sauces it is possible to make for pasta.

Having mused on this overnight, and having decanted the rest of yesterday's homemade lasagne into little foil trays for the freezer I reckon we should cut the OP some slack, because when she talks pasta and sauce, she clearly means a tin of Alphabetti spaghetti.

To the poster who suggested sea bass to me on the other page (sorry, can't remember your mn name) I prefer bream, it's more "meaty" somehow, but we eat it rarely, despite living on the seafront in the south of Italy because here it's so fecking expensive.

How can you say that pasta isn't filling? Do you have an exceptionally huge appetite or extremely fast metabolism?

I find pasta very filling and fail to understand why other people feel the need to have garlic bread or chips with pasta.

Pasta with tasty home-made tomato sauce and grated cheese, served with a salad or some kind of veg is a complete meal.

Pasta with tomato sauce doesn't fill me either.
I will be hungry again after an hour.
For me it has to have meat or lentils or cheese ot top.

I cant see why people got offended by OP. And some pp even got offended on behalf of the Italians! It is a thread about pasta fgs.

I agree with the op, people waffle on, you can make a nutrious meal in 15 mins, just boil some pasta make a basic tomato sauce and there you have it dinner.

But i have found different people have different definitions of loads of veg, some people consider a tin of toms to be "loads" of veg in a meal, whilst i don't.

It isn't necessary to have meat at every single meal. unless you live in South Africa, where macaroni cheese is a side dish to your meat

I think on the odd occasion, a jar of sauce with some pasta is fine.

If it were a proper veg sauce, even better.

Murphys
in that case i will need a whole pack (just for myself) of grated hallumi to make it a meal.
Which will add 2.50 pounds to the budgens.
Thats why i always have lentil bolognese in the freezer.