Cheesy pasta - as packaged calories

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This has been driving me crazy.
I’m on a strict 1200 calorie diet. I recently bought the Kraft Cheesey Pasta from Asda and I can’t figure out the calories.
It says it’s 364 cal as prepared, but I don’t use milk or butter (just the powder and the pasta that comes in the box), so I need to know what the calories are as packaged.
I tried to subtract the calories from the milk and the butter and it makes no sense. 50ml of semi-skimmed milk is 23 cal. 50g butter is 358. That’s 381 cal, excluding the actual pasta and powder.
This is so infuriating, please help me.

It will be 364 cals as prepared per number of grammes (probably 100)..so say it's 500g when cooked, then multiply the 364 by 5 to get total calorie count as prepared, then minus the calories for the suggested amount of milk and butter.. Then you will have the correct amount for the whole box.

According to this, 1 serving as prepared = 160g, and when prepared the box contains 3 servings.. So multiply your 364 by 3 to get total cals then subtract milk and butter.

www.tesco.com/groceries/en-GB/products/254879740

The way they label these things is very sneaky and misleading imo.

So it’s 50g of butter and 50ml of milk for the whole box, not per serving?

Yes.

I'll bet it was grim.