To only buy one shape of pasta?

[BroomstickOfLove]

I'm tidying up the kitchen cupboards. There are currently 6 mostly-empty bags, each with a different shape of pasta. WIBU to only ever buy a single shape from now on? And if so, which shape is best? I'm thinking of going for fusilli.

tagliatelle or linguine. I prefer linguine as I find tag very starchy.

I get very excited about new pasta shapes, had some shaped like elk heads from IKEA once, ah those were the days... If I have an amount left in the bag that's not enough for a full meal (eg 2.75 portions) I'll cook it all rather than leave a little bit in the bag and mix it with whatever sauce we're having and DH just takes left overs for lunch

I only buy penne, quite boring actually

As students, most of our pasta was penis shaped....

Think we bought a job lot of it reduced to about 10p a pack in some novelty shop. Spent years eating it all!

We buy a couple of different kinds and use the 'other' one to make the kids eat all their tea. Basically, a few bits of one shape get hidden in a bowl of the main shape, and they think it's magic 

Spirali, definitely

We have linguine to go with bolognese, tagliatelle for meatballs and macaroni for one specific meal that my mum used to feed me when I was little that I now feed my kids. We also usually get the 3kg bags of fusilli from Tesco and go through about 3 a month but last time it was unavailable for online shopping so I went a bit mad and bought spirali, farfalle, fusilli tricolor and mixed them all together in the almost empty 3kg bag! Kids think it's great

We only have spaghetti, it's the quickest to cook and the only one my toddler will eat anyhow

Whatever the 3kg bag is ... but conchigli is the best (even though it’s definitely all the same)

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The one that comes in the biggest bags - fusilli or penne in Asda.

And lots of spaghetti or linguine.

Oh god we have loads,

Rigatoni
Spirali
Linguine
Penne
Lasagne sheets
Farfallle

I always match it to the sauce!

I'm aware certain pastas are better for certain sauces and dishes...but I'm a heathen, and just pick the shapes I like...
Yabu to only have one pasta though.
Minimum spaghetti and one other is alright.
Spag bol - spaghetti obviously.
A chunky sauce where I'll mix with the pasta is usually Conchiglie as the shells keep the sauce and chunky bits in.
Fusilli works with a thinner less chunky sauce though.
To deal the dregs though, buy more pasta in those shapes, and be left with a slightly bigger amount of dregs but still not enough to cook with?

I love tiny stars but for some reason never think to make soup with pasta.

I've got some tiny alphabet pasta that I bought on holiday too, because it was cute. Unused and almost a year old

DS and I discovered this weird long pasta in Tesco that looks like octopus arms when its cooked!
No idea what its actually called, DS just tells me he wants octopus pasta for tea!

I love tiny stars - forgot to mention I got those too. For soups. BTW, not sure if we are talking about the same things here but I used to think they were stars for ages until one day I started thinking they looked more like tiny flowers than stars :)

Linguini, plus radiatorre or orecchiette - or failing that spirali, as the middle two can be hard to find.

It really, really, really does depend on what sauce you have.

If I had to pick one long and one small would be linguini and rigatoni. Hate pene - feels like bargain basement pasta.
Also macaroni for the kids and macaroni cheese which really can’t be anything else.

Oh no you are right hilarious spirali is instead of rigatoni - more versatile. Could even poss forgo macaroni with that.

Orzo. Nuff said.

Hmm. I do actually have loads of tiny stars, because I like them for when I'm feeling ill. I might restrict myself to tiny stars, fusili, tagliatelle in the winter/linguine in the summer. And buy lasagne sheets and macaroni as I need it and use it all up at once.

Orzo OK, 7 types.

I've just been and checked... I have all 7 in the cupboard! Bloody hell!

That said, it is all in date and I can remember the last time we used each of them! Then again there are only 2 of us on the house!

I love pasta bows but it's really hard to find them in wholewheat. I go with the twisty ones.

If you only buy one, it's got to be this