I don’t want all this fucking pasta!!

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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

Christ. Opt out of leftovers, and let him eat them for twice as long. He cooked, it he can decide if he eats it, or stays in the fridge until he bins it.

OH cooks for the 5 thousand too except he wont eat left overs.

He piles stuff onto his plate with no recognition of what he is capable of.

Gets through tons of brown sauce and mustard because he dollops spoon fulls of it onto the plate but proceeds to only touch each bit of food into the sauce so the plate sits there at the end of the meal with dollops of unused sauce

Drives me round the bend, he has what I woujld call a psychological sight issue, almost like a food portion dysmorphia if there is such a thing.

And if there isnt, I have just described it and coined it, so it better be trademarked to me.

I on the other hand eat very different food anyway and wont waste a morsel.

My pasta scooping utensil (like a spoon with spike on it to take pasta out of pan) has a hole in the middle which is the right size to measure 1 serving of pasta. So that covers spaghetti and for everything else needs to be weighed.

Are you feeling quite well? What an overreaction 😂

FYI, I have a degree in Catering management, a postgrad in secondary food education and was firstly a catering manager then a home economics teacher for the bulk of my career. It's still a standing joke that I always do too much pasta and I am certainly not stupid, absolutely not weaponising anything although I admit to neurodivergence 😁.

OP, give the bloke a break and remember his spider removing capabilities. We all have different talents and his is spiders, yours is estimating dry pasta requirements. Also, get yourself a couple of labradors as in our case they are excellent at dealing with any left overs 😉.

Well, I'm half Italian and the very idea of reheating pasta gives me the willies! Ditto freezing it. Disgusting.

Many people can't portion pasta by eye, and simply need to weigh it. The standard benchmark is 100g per person. It doesn't look like much when dry, but expands in the water and the sauce. Weigh. Weigh. Weigh.

Just be aware that if the pasta is cooked with salt it can be fatal to birds. Apart from that your dh is a twat.

Yabu tbh, pasta is one of those things that will always be made with enough for delicious leftovers

When I used to live at home, mum used to cook Spaghetti Bolognese.
Once upon a time, Spaghetti bolognese used to be my favourite meal.

We eventually ended up having it maybe 4-5 times a week.

Mum said it was quick and easy.

I eventually stopped eating it and said I would make my own.
She got upset but things did eventually change.

I havent eaten spaghetti Bolognese once since I left home in 2017.

It is impossible to cook the correct amount of pasta.

See also rice.

Find a mug or scoop that holds the exact amount of pasta for one person and insists he use that every time.
Even if it looks like way too little in the pan.
Even if he feels extra peckish today.
Even if he thinks the mug might have shrunk. Stick to it!

Because he doesn't want to live a life devoid of joy, I expect

Tell him: I am very sick of pasta. Please cook less of it. I hate having it for breakfast and lunch.

Tell him all the left overs are his from now on, to eat for breakfast, lunch and dinner forever. You do not have to touch a single fusilli from now on. Enjoy your salads, soups, toasties, but if he insists on over-catering, he has to eat up his leftovers before moving on to other foods.

I am guilty of this with soup. There are two of us in the house. I make enough soup to feed a family of twelve. DH does not want soup every day for a week. Neither do I. I am trying to learn.

I am trying to focus on the removal of spiders but the ratio of spiders to pasta is very skewed 😂

we have a (very greedy) dog, he is also sick to death of pasta. I’d offer to send it to your labs but it sounds like they have their own pasta mountains to conquer

Buy it in 500g bags and hide all but 1

You are welcome to my pasta support group anytime

Cook lovely things for your meals and dish him up leftover pasta for every meal until it’s done.

Eyeball him the whole time you are eating your nice food…

You need to make friends with me and my friends a group of long distance runners, who will descend on your kitchen after a run and hoover up all the leftover pasta quickly and efficiently, then demand dessert and hot drinks, and who will sit around stinking up your kitchen, dripping mud everywhere and boring your DP with chat about negative splits, toe tape and the comparative merits of Hoka vs Salomon.

He'll soon change his ways.

Tell him two handfuls per person, that’s what I do.

This thread has given me literally my first laugh of the day.

Thank you OP.

(PS- spiders are nice. I'm Australian and was never very Into Spiders but the UK* ones are cute and hide behind the cistern all ready to come out and say hi at night in a very relaxed, non-potentially-deathly kind of way).

*See also UK snakes.

I came from a big family and it took me years to remember to only cook enough for me.

Of course now I have 2 teen boys, so that's coming back to bite me and I have to remember instead to cook enough for a whole week (and it'll be gone by lunchtime the next day)

Interesting. DH has a story he tells often. I think someone high up at Keens Mustard was interviewed and he said 'We don't make our profit on how much mustard people eat. We make our profit on how much they leave on the plate'.

Pasta is two handfuls for everyone eating it, plus one single extra handful for luck.

weigh it.

75g of dried pasta per person is usually enough.
If you are hungry, then 100g per person.

There are 3 of us at home. me, dh and dd (aged 18) who doens't have a huge appetite. I cook 250g and it is pretty much spot on every time.

You get your joy by cooking excess pasta and eating it for multiple nights? Oh Ok, not my thing but each to their own!

Would that cause the same health issues as bread though?