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

[MaxwellMouse]

One of life's simple pleasures.

Love pasta with cheese but much prefer white stodgy boiled rice. Stodgier the better. On it's own.

You are talking through your arse mooncup.
All diets essentially work the same. Stop eating stuff meaning less calories.

I have been enjoying new potatoes with butter, salad and a meat each day for the last few weeks. I do like pasta, especially with prawns or carbonara but I really don't think you can beat a new potato.

MysweetAudrina new potato’s are the worst of all the potato options.

Pasta is food of the Gods. I’m not hungry but I’ve had a shit day so I might make some anyway. With butter, feta, black olives and sundried tomato’s is my quick go to. Maybe with grated cheddar as well, lots of salt and pepper. Yum.

I love all the carbs though. But they don’t suit me ☹️
And they don’t make everyone fat (though they do make me fat) this week’s The Food Programme on Radio4 is a good intro to the new research into the microbiome and how hopefully in future diets can be tailored to us - we don’t all react the same to the same things

I love a really good lasagne and I also like proper ravioli but other than that I can happily go months without eating pasta. Nice enough but way overrated.

I go months without eating pasta, but I do love it.

Meh, I love pasta and eat it quite often. I am not and have never been fat.

I tried doing a low carb diet once and I had to stop because I felt like utter shit.

@HugsAreMyDrugs I wish I was that way. I feel so much better low carbing it clearly suits my body, but I love pasta/potato/rice/bread so much😬

I could eat it daily OP - the best thing since sliced bread. My DD of 9 months also approves.

Pasta is my most favourite food ever. I am amazed at the pasta haters here. Potatoes, I can take or leave, if I never ate another potato again I couldn’t care less but pasta, any kind makes me very very happy

Yeh I made cheesy pasta. Fat but happy.

I can’t eat pasta either Buffalo. Wish I could. The starchy carbs make me fat but I know people who aren’t affected.
The problem I have with starchy carbs is I find them very easy to over eat and they aren’t very filling for me-in fact they only serve to make me more hungry the more I eat of them.

Pasta is wonderful. But it is really worth buying better quality, if you can. Have decided I want pasta for supper tomorrow.

I cooked it so much for the dcs, I rarely eat it now. Maybe once a year.

YANBU because too many carbs make me feel shit.

But it is a handy kids meal...

Use it a couple of times a week here and it's been a lifesaver for DD with a new diagnosis of coeliac. She can barely tell the difference between ordinary and gluten free and we can all share the same quick midweek meal. Her version isn't 50p though!