To think pasta is a packet of complete joy for only 50p?

[MaxwellMouse]

One of life's simple pleasures.

YABU.

Pasta is slimy and slippery and vile and disgusting.

I like pasta well enough but only want to eat it once a month or so.

YANBU. And if you buy wholewheat pasta you can feel virtuous

I mean it's fine, but it's no potato!

Well it depends what it’s with

Do you eat it plain OP?

YANBU but I'm fairly certain pasta is why I'm fat.

YABU. Pasta itself doesn't even taste of anything. It's the sauce that's good.

YANBU. Is there anything finer than a pasta mountain for tea? No.

Jem how on earth are you cooking your pasta?

Love pasta! It's so versatile, coming a close second to the potato of course!

YABU spend another £2 & get Seeds of Change Spinach Pasta.

With cheese.
With pesto.
With tuna.
With chorizo.
With chicken.
In a lasagne.
In a soup.

There is nothing it can’t do.

Pasta and pesto, the ultimate comforting cupboard standby meal.

YANBU. It's the most versatile and delicious of foods, and kids just love it! Also great for hiding vegetables, that they won't usually eat, in the sauce. I could happily eat it with a bit of butter and garlic yum.
@Jemima you're overcooking it.

I always feel so guilty giving the kids a simple pasta meal. It’s cheap and effortless but somehow makes me feel guilty. I’m realising this is ridiculous as I’m writing this.

Slimy, tasteless globules - boak, I hate the stuff.

Don't tell me I am not cooking it properly - I have tried every which way, including cooked by other people and it remains slimy and tasteless.

GF pasta (which is what we have in this house) is neither 50p nor a complete joy. 😂

We practically live off pasta thanks to kids who won't touch potato based food. Thank God for all the different types 😂

YABU you need to spend more than 50p to get nice pasta. Pasta is awful, slimy and tasteless at the best of times but the really cheap stuff is the worst.

It's the sauces which are nice. I agree.

*SilverySurfer

Slimy, tasteless globules - boak, I hate the stuff.

Don't tell me I am not cooking it properly - I have tried every which way, including cooked by other people and it remains slimy and tasteless*

This. Every word I would literally rather not eat than eat pasta.
When we were in Italy DH made me have some "real pasta" still the most disgusting thing I have ever eaten.

I've just had it with sea salt and black pepper with a smidgen of butter, a chopped fresh tomato and some chives. Delicious!

I will try that @Signhereplease thank you.

@MaxwellMouse that sounds lovely. My Italian neighbour taught me a really simple sauce for pasta, just sage fried in hot butter and a splash of olive oil, delicious.

YANBU food of the gods.
I am yet to find a pasta dish I don't love.
I try to limit myself to twice a week and only 100g dry weight. I often fail on both counts. Can't stand potatoes.

I can't understand how anyone can live without pasta, I eat it several times a week.