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

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One of life's simple pleasures.

Love it with butter and prawns, or chopped tomatoes.

Coeliac here. So, errr, yeah, I'm gonna go with nope!!!

Can't stand potatoes

I cannot compute this sentence.

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

I haven't eaten pasta for years!!

Yanbu. It's on a par with potatoes and rice.

My favourite pasta is De Cecco. I wait until Sainsbo's have it on offer then buy it in bulk.

But..but...what do you eat @serenadoundy?!

God my kids would eat pasta for every meal if I let them. So I guess from their perspective YANBU 🤷🏻‍♀️

Can’t stand carb food, yabu

Yabu it's only 19p in aldi

I love the stuff!

Different pasta has different tastes and yes I can eat some types plain.

I hate the stuff but my teenagers would live on it

I can't eat pasta anymore and miss it soooooo much. It's so yummy and so versatile.

Pasta is my comfort food and would be my last meal on death row (with red wine and chocolate).
Bertiebotts I used to like you but we can never be friends, disagreeing as we do on such a fundamental issue

OMG I'd eat pasta for every meal and at snack times too:) pasta is the work of God's.

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All I could think of when I got diagnosed with coeliac is omg no more pasta I loved it, at uni I used to have pasta and hp brown sauce for breakfast
I use red lentil pasta as a substitute but it doesn't compare.

I’m puzzled by the number of pasta fans on here! It’s basically flour and water, with damn all nutritional value and no taste at all. It’s Jersey Royal and Ayrshire potato season at the moment - they’re both gorgeous, why would I swap them for pasta?
And whole grain Basmati rice - so fragrant and full of B vitamins and fibre - far preferable to boring bland pasta!

Fry chillies and chunks of chorizo in a bit of olive oil

Sling a carton of passatta in

The a massive blob of bourdon cheese so it melts in

Lots of pasta and grated parmesan on top

I am a piglet

I love pasta (am Italian!) but haven't been able to eat it all pregnancy as it makes me through up atm.

50p pasta is fine, DM purposely buys Asda smart price pasta as its not too 'smooth' like some of the more expensive ones.

@loladisco love a pasta mountain. Spaghetti and pesto is my fave. My dh doesn't care for it so every time he has to travel with work, it's my go to dinner. Just yum.

It’s Jersey Royal and Ayrshire potato season at the moment - they’re both gorgeous, why would I swap them for pasta?

Because frutti di mare is just not the same if you eat it with spuds!

I've had a D&V bug (cheers DC ) and haven't eaten for 2 days. Now I want pasta. Wonder if I have anything rather bland I could put on some

Anotherusefulname thank you! I thought I was alone in the world for hating the horrible stuff. Whenever anyone talks about recipes on here, it's always bloody pasta. Potatoes on the other hand - are the food of the gods - so yummy and versatile and you don't have to pile half a ton of sauce on them to enjoy - a baked potato with butter and black pepper is a thing of wonder

@ghostofharrenhal I love potatoes too!