I don’t want all this fucking pasta!!

[Iamsotiredandfedup]

I know I’m not being unreasonable but I’d just like to take a second to scream into the void

whenever partner cooks dinner he seems to be expecting our saviour and his twelve disciples to arrive, this happens more so with cooking pasta. I have told him numerous times to stop with this bullshit which he agrees to do, but we still end up being expected to eat this shit for breakfast, lunch and dinner for the next 3 months. It was a nice enough dinner but I’d like to add something other than tomatoes, pasta and resentment to my diet

what do I do?? I’m here boxing up this crap ready for us to eat again and again and again and it makes me irrationally angry at this point. “Cost of living who?” he asks adding another fucking kilo of pasta to boiling water

I can’t LTB, he pays for everything and gets spiders out the house

You should team up with the poster with the casseroles !

Get chickens. They bloody love that stuff.

Hide the pasta, replace with rolling pin.

Don't eat it. Make your own tea untill he realises that you really don't want pasta anymore. My DH did this with my mash fixation - just said no. Apparently mash everyday isn't reasonable (it is).

YANBU

Pasta is one of those things that really is a lot nicer eaten when it’s just been cooked, albeit sauces can be batch cooked and in most cases keep well. But there’s little point batch boiling the pasta unless it’s for packed lunches. Even then it only keeps safely for 3-5 days.

I get that cooking in bulk can save effort later on, but the actual pasta takes less than 10 mins!

It's literally men being too stupid to process the fact that pasta absorbs water and will end up a lot bigger than the size in the box! They are literally putting the same volume of pasta in the pot that they want to have in their meal.

Sheer laziness or weaponised incompetence. There is also no form of neurodivergence, ableism or MH issue that can excuse the inability to understand and retain the simple info that some foods expand when cooked.

DD used to have a partner who taught catering. He could not cook small quantities of anything. To feed four adults he’d always cook an entire 500g packet of dried pasta or rice. And he would never, ever eat leftovers, in catering they evidently endorse food wastage. It drove me mad. So I weighed, measured and marked lines on little repurposed tubs, showing how much pasta or rice to cook per person.

Just throw it away. We always accidentally end up with extra and just chuck it.

Urgh, cold pasta is my nightmare food. Could you pre-portion it? Get it out of the bags and put individual portions into - something so he can just take out the number of portions already prepared? Has anyone invented a kind of elastic band to wrap around individual amounts of raw pasta to aid this measurement?

if not - I just invented it.

Launch it over the back wall.

Work out how much pasta per person in weight you eat in one meal.

Ask him to weigh it before he cooks it

If he doesnt, he has to eat all the leftovers on his own while you have something else

Tell him to weight it dry: 75-100g per person

Not with mashed potato 😩 what is wrong with these men

I think pasta strike may be the best option

Why isn’t he weighing it?

I honestly don’t know, he likes cooking in a “bit of this, bit of that” fashion so I assume it’s that. Except it’s not a bit of pasta, it’s enough to feed a local football team

If you are going to chuck it, the birdies love it..... just watch them descend and devour. 😊

This is good to know, thank you!

piles pasta on to the roof of his car

Can’t you just leave the leftovers for him to eat?

Or find a bowl/tupperware that’s the right size when filled and tell him to use that going forwards to measure the pasta. I like leftovers for the next day - less cooking!

Buy the 'everyday value' 28p spaghetti instead and eat out until he's eaten all the pasta batch.

Hide the big saucepans.

Recommended 80 gram portions from a 500g packet are easy to eyeball. You don’t even need to weigh it.
2x80=160 or a third of a packet.
3x80=240 or half a packet.
4x80= 320 or two thirds of a packet.

Freeze the leftover pasta. Evidently, pasta is better for once its been frozen. Just grab it out the freezer and put into boiking water for a few mins. No waste. Tell him to cook something else. Simple

This is the only option. My OH used to insist on guessing how much rice we needed (which to be fair is harder than guessing pasta) but he was consistently miles out. He has seen the light and now gets the scales out. He also now times boiled eggs after having to admit he was no good at guessingwhether 6 minutes had passed...

On the upside, reheated pasta is better for you.
Something to do with "resistant starch" and "glycaemic response".

This is interesting however he must never know this

Yes! Lower GI for reheated pasta