To ask if you need superhuman powers to know how much pasta to cook

[FelicisWolf]

Seriously, I put in however much I think looks 'about right', and it's either enough to feed the 5000 or turns out to be a portion size akin to an overpriced Michelin restaurant who expects their diners to have stomachs the size of ants. How to know what the actual right amount is? It's just me and DH, but we sometimes entertain and sometimes want to make double quantities for lunch the next day. How do you super humans do it?!

Just tip the whole packet in. Its best to have too much pasta... too much pasta is great... as is too much cheese

For me, it's rice. Either enough to supply every takeaway in the local area or I'm a celeb rations. I just can't get it right.

I use an average size mug full per person. For spaghetti, about 75g per person.

Homemade - 100gms of flour and 1 egg per person plus salt. Simples!

I've just done a two day health course, held by Consultants in, Coronary Heart Disease, Vascular disease and Diabetes.

Ideally an Adult should have around 150g of starchy Carbs a day. As it is converted to sugar, that doesn't vary with height/weight/sex.

Think about the plate portion ratios. If its a special occasion etc, then serve more. But day to day, unless you take in no sugar, then that's the ideal limit.

If you weigh it is that the same weight for all pasta? So Xg penne = Xg spaghetti?

We weigh 300g pasta for 5 of us. 3/4 of a mug full of rice for 5.
I used to just throw it in , but always overestimated.

Yes to being the same, whatever the pasta (well, potentially excluding filled pasta).
I do 2oz per person if cooking for several people. If I were ever to cook for just one, I'd do a full handful.

60g is a portion of rice or pasta here. We have a lot of sauce though!

I split the difference between other posters - 90g per adult, scale down for kids under 12 and scale up for 13-18!
The stuff is cheap enough that as long as you don't throw in a whole half kilo for a meal for two it barely matters, tbh.
I don't use spaghetti much, and excess pasta bits can easily be tossed in olive oil/salt/pepper and then the fridge. Mmm. Nibbly now, wish there was some leftovers...

40g dry per person is plenty

Blimey there's some pasta fiends on here. About 40g each max for us.

Pasta spoon is the best to use, the whole in the middle is the right size for one person, or weigh it.

I do handfuls. 3 for DH 2 for each me and da

HURRAH! The carb police have arrived.

Handfuls - 2 big handfuls makes slightly more than a person of normal restraint eats. I have 2 big handfuls plus a bit extra for luck.

Spaghetti can be measured by thumb and forefinger: fingertip to base joint of thumb equals one portion; fingertip to thumb tip feeds four.

100g for DH, 50g each for me, DD and DS. DS doesn’t eat much or it evens out nicely in my favour. Or go large and freeze some.

Yup weight it. I do 320g dry weight for me and OH and I'm not sorry. Not even a tiny bit. Those of you saying 40g per person, be careful in the shower tomorrow morning. You might get washed down the plug hole.

HURRAH! The carb police have arrived.

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I do 2 handfuls per person.

I weigh it. 75g for an adult, half that for a child.

We do 300g for two adults and two teenagers. I log my calories, so when serving up I give myself 200g cooked, husband a bit more, kids slightly less. Recommended amount on the packet is 90g (dry) per adult. I've just taught my youngest that, if you want to work out how much to cook for just you, a dry portion will be about half the size of a cooked portion.

40g? Forty grams?? I count on 100g raw weight per person but don't mind some leftovers.

@FelicisWolf it says on the packet how much per person

I bet the people who eat a 40g portion of pasta are the same people who eat a 30g portion of breakfast cereal.