pasta servings?

myaminals
myaminals Posts: 197 Member
in Health and Weight Loss
how do y'all measure pasta? dry or cooked? the box says 2/3 cup 200 calories.

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  • Serah87
    Serah87 Posts: 5,481 Member
    Dry.
  • cwolfman13
    cwolfman13 Posts: 41,865 Member
    myaminals wrote: »
    how do y'all measure pasta? dry or cooked? the box says 2/3 cup 200 calories.

    That would be cooked...

    Most pasta I buy gives the dry (uncooked) weight as the serving size.
  • DrusiliaDD
    DrusiliaDD Posts: 71 Member
    The pasta I have right now has an uncooked serving as 75g and 270 calories. I have no idea how many grams 2/3 a cup is but maybe you do.
  • tahxirez
    tahxirez Posts: 270 Member
    I think the whole wheat pasta i buy is 56g (dry) per 200 calorie serving. Could be wrong as I'm at work right now.
  • johnnylakis
    johnnylakis Posts: 812 Member
    On a digital food scale, 2 oz of dry pasta is one serving (200 cal)
  • myaminals
    myaminals Posts: 197 Member
    thanks for the help everyone! I think I have been counting it wrong.
  • Francl27
    Francl27 Posts: 26,371 Member
    Dry with a scale.
  • scolaris
    scolaris Posts: 2,145 Member
    Dry with food scale is right. I rarely eat pasta, but when I do I go for the big 3.5 oz dry serving. Very satisfying, esp. if you use barilla's protein pasta.
  • myaminals
    myaminals Posts: 197 Member
    thank y'all for the help. i will try the protein one next!
  • ashleyjongepier
    ashleyjongepier Posts: 130 Member
    dry, mine says 85g (dry) and its so sad to look at uncooked haha.
  • Timshel_
    Timshel_ Posts: 22,834 Member
    myaminals wrote: »
    how do y'all measure pasta? dry or cooked? the box says 2/3 cup 200 calories.

    I measure dry, but you can find cooked pasta measurements and calories in the MFP database.
  • alyssa0061
    alyssa0061 Posts: 652 Member
    ashleyjongepier wrote: »
    dry, mine says 85g (dry) and its so sad to look at uncooked haha.

    So sad! I think that every time I weigh out my pasta! It looks so pathetic I do a serving and a half.
  • scolaris
    scolaris Posts: 2,145 Member
    Yes I would rather eat it less often and enjoy it to satiety when I have it!
  • scolaris
    scolaris Posts: 2,145 Member
    Just had barilla's protein spaghetti with homemade Piedmontese meatballs last week when my daughter was home from college.
    So. Damn. Good.
  • krish385
    krish385 Posts: 5 Member
    edited April 2016
    I have a related question...when you're cooking pasta for multiple people, how do you figure out the amount you ate? Obviously the weight's a lot different after it's cooked. Do you cook your serving separately? I usually just weigh it when it's dry so I know the total weight and eyeball my proportionate share...probably not a good strategy.

    Edit: I just saw the post above that mentions there are entries for cooked pasta that I can use. Duh.
  • myaminals
    myaminals Posts: 197 Member
    thanks y'all. yeah definitely not something i can fit in everyday. there is not that much for the calories.
  • diannethegeek
    diannethegeek Posts: 14,776 Member
    krish385 wrote: »
    I have a related question...when you're cooking pasta for multiple people, how do you figure out the amount you ate? Obviously the weight's a lot different after it's cooked. Do you cook your serving separately? I usually just weigh it when it's dry so I know the total weight and eyeball my proportionate share...probably not a good strategy.

    Edit: I just saw the post above that mentions there are entries for cooked pasta that I can use. Duh.

    The entry for cooked pasta is a good idea.

    I recently saw someone here who cooks her pasta separately in a metal colander so she doesn't have to use a second pot. I thought that was pretty clever.
  • krish385
    krish385 Posts: 5 Member
    That is clever! I will give it a shot. Probably more accurate, since the amount of water absorbed probably varies a bit. Thanks for the tip!
  • BurnWithBarn2015
    BurnWithBarn2015 Posts: 1,026 Member
    I have made for every pasta or rice kind two entrees in my data list.
    Cooked and uncooked

    So i started with the uncooked 56 gram = 200 calories ( for example) Cooked the 56 gram and when cooked weighed it again so i had the cooked amount too.

    Now it doesn't matter if i have it cooked or dry it is always right when i choice the right option to log it. I did this also for meat and potatoes etc.
    I do this with every new food that i get. And i never have to do it again.
    Some find it a lot of work, but for me to figure out later how much cooked is ( when my husband cooked something without weighing upfront) was more annoying.


  • reddevil614
    reddevil614 Posts: 16 Member
    per usda, 140 grams of cooked pasta is equal to 221 calories....definitely a sad little pile for this full-blooded sicilian lol
  • Kalici
    Kalici Posts: 685 Member
    krish385 wrote: »
    I have a related question...when you're cooking pasta for multiple people, how do you figure out the amount you ate? Obviously the weight's a lot different after it's cooked. Do you cook your serving separately? I usually just weigh it when it's dry so I know the total weight and eyeball my proportionate share...probably not a good strategy.

    Edit: I just saw the post above that mentions there are entries for cooked pasta that I can use. Duh.

    If you weigh the uncooked pasta and you know the weight of the serving you're eating yourself then you can calculate what fraction of the pasta is yours. That fraction will be the same once it is cooked, so you can weigh all the cooked pasta and then take that same fraction of it by weight as your own portion. That way you know you're getting exactly the serving you want regardless of the change in weight during cooking.

    For example if you're making 200 grams of uncooked pasta and you want one serving of 50 grams for yourself, your fraction is 1/4. Let's say that once cooked the pasta weighs 500 grams, and you know that 1/4th of 500 is 125, you know that your serving is exactly 125 grams.

    I have gotten used to weighing a lot of things twice. I am terrible at eyeballing portions and too short to be able to mess it up too much.
  • krish385
    krish385 Posts: 5 Member
    Ahh, that's great advice! Thanks, Kalici!
  • Kalici
    Kalici Posts: 685 Member
    You're welcome! :)
  • Sherriediva1
    Sherriediva1 Posts: 345 Member
    edited April 2016
    Just had this problem as I was creating a recipe. I measured out the portion size according to "per serving" according to number of family members when I put it in the pot to cook. But when I was weighing the rest of the ingredients for the casserole I realized I had to weigh the pasta cooked as well to determine the serving size/weight for the whole recipe. USDA website to the rescue! They list different types of pasta cooked in grams!!
  • Francl27
    Francl27 Posts: 26,371 Member
    krish385 wrote: »
    I have a related question...when you're cooking pasta for multiple people, how do you figure out the amount you ate? Obviously the weight's a lot different after it's cooked. Do you cook your serving separately? I usually just weigh it when it's dry so I know the total weight and eyeball my proportionate share...probably not a good strategy.

    Edit: I just saw the post above that mentions there are entries for cooked pasta that I can use. Duh.

    Cooked rice and cooked pasta entries are usually way off though.

    Personally, I weigh it dry, then cooked, and just do a bit of math to figure out how many grams is a serving of cooked pasta.

    So I'll put the box on the scale and tare it and dump pasta in the water, put the box back on the scale, write that number. Divide it by 56 to figure out how many servings I'm cooking. Then I weigh it cooked and divide by the number of servings to see how many grams a cooked serving is. Then I just have whatever, divide by 130g and enter that on MFP as the number of servings (using the dry entry).

    If you've done it once, and always cook it the same time, you don't even have to do it every time. Now I just know that 130g of cooked pasta is one serving (that's for Ronzoni healthy harvest, any type).
  • Antmaril
    Antmaril Posts: 43 Member
    I have discovered Creamettes brand pasta that is 150 calories per serving (56 grams). I weigh it dry. Two servings is only 300 calories and 26 grams of fiber, which is amazing.
  • myaminals
    myaminals Posts: 197 Member
    thanks everyone for the help. i will definitely look for the creamettes brand!
  • myaminals
    myaminals Posts: 197 Member
    thank you! i just saw the calories may have to think twice about that one.
  • Lydilod
    Lydilod Posts: 135 Member
    krish385 wrote: »
    I have a related question...when you're cooking pasta for multiple people, how do you figure out the amount you ate? Obviously the weight's a lot different after it's cooked. Do you cook your serving separately? I usually just weigh it when it's dry so I know the total weight and eyeball my proportionate share...probably not a good strategy.

    Edit: I just saw the post above that mentions there are entries for cooked pasta that I can use. Duh.

    I eat 50g dry as does my hubby, my teenagers have 100g dry each, once the pasta is cooked I weigh it and I have a 6th.

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