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

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One of life's simple pleasures.

Yanbu.

I love pasta, a jar of tomato pasta sauce, and a load of grated cheese. It's so quick a delicious.

I also love making pasta dishes with bacon, ham, mushrooms.

Cheap pasta is rank.

I only buy decent stuff when on offer.

Decent pasta tastes lovely on its own

Not to mention lasagne.

I do love potatoes and rice though.

Brown rice got me through my first trimesters in pregnancy.

Jacket potatoes are awesome and versatile. For example, smoked mackerel with butter and mustard in a jacket potatoes = NOM

Have to agree potatoes are a tier above pasta. Pasta is good enough, but a spud. They are heaven

For the coeliacs sufferers here - have you tried Morrison's brown rice penne pasta? It's by far the 'springiest' of the MILLIONS I have tried whilst experimenting with my coeliac toddler and actually feels most like 'proper' pasta out of all the ones we've tried.

Not the cheap pasta, it is not nice, and for some reason it tastes of cinnamon if it is cheap.

I buy the really nice Italian pasta. Serve it with chopped fresh garlic, olive oil and some peas, or roasted tomatoes, something simple.

Also buy the green pea pasta and red lentil pasta for a change.

PASTA IS THE BOMMMMMBBBBBB ❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️

yanbu
I love pasta. preferably just with butter & garlic
great stuff.

Cheap pasta is joyous, lovely comfy carbs with marmite and butter.

Fresh pasta is delicious.

Gnocchi is truly divine.

Meh.

It’s basically flour and water, with damn all nutritional value and no taste at all

I'm not disagreeing with you about good potatoes and rice, but this is an unenlightened view of pasta

I make my own with really good flour, egg yolks from our chickens and some inherited bronze dies. That's what I grew up with.

Pasta can be dreadful, but it can be wonderful as well.

I'm on a low-carb diet so yes, it is indeed food of the Gods that I cant indulge in unfortunately

SPB :o :o

I always think carbs are the worst of the food groups TBH. All bland and tasteless.

The best pasta is Barilla

Followed by the more widely available Rummo (made in the same factory as Barilla)

Then De Cecco

I could eat pasta every day 💗

If it weren’t so fattening I would 100% agree

Overcook asparagus (slightly) blitz with garlic butter and parmesan add double cream. Serve with pasta. Ommmmmmmm nommmmmm

Garlic salt even.

I really don't like pasta, and pasta doesn't like me (stomach aches after eating it).

I haven't eaten it for years and don't miss it at all. It's just stodgy paste to me, although I suspect I'm unusual...

Cannelini beurre blanc
My current favourite pasta dish Although it’s a bean dish too.

I only want pasta once in a blue moon but when I do there is nothing more satisfying than spag bol (lentil bolognese and vegetarian parmesan). Also spaghetti with butter & marmite is divine.

YABU is a packet of bellyaching nastiness, as is its cousin, the noodle.

Pasta isn't just carbs, it also has protein (from the flour), it's fine with a bit of meat or cheese added.
Wouldn't associate 'joy' with it though. It's one of those things I eat when I'm poor to fill me up, rather than something I actually enjoy. I prefer bread, potatoes and rice ahead of pasta.

YABU
the £1.55 De Cecco stuff is what you want. I know it's 3x more expensive, but the extra quid is beyond worth it. Or stock up when it's on offer for a quid.