Pasta confuses me :-S

SunshineAndLove

Are the nutritional values relating to cooked pasta or the pasta before it's cooked? Because there will be a huge difference and I just don't know what to put in my diary :frown:

AlisonMacKay

it's before cooking. About one cup cooked pasta or 140g is about 220 cals.

anu_6986

I take it is cooked pasta/rice.

dls06

When you look it up there are choices for dry and cooked. 2 oz dry is 1 cup cooked. Just make sure you weigh it out.

ilookthetype

Not going to be the answer you're looking for BUT I'm giving it anyway, I'm a giver, what can I say. Try making your own pasta out of veggies. Eggplant, squash, carrots, whatever. It will be less processed, have less crap in it and still be tasty. I promise. I use spaghetti squash most often. So good. And, there is no cooked vs raw question. Win.

Lesliecs

I measure out the amount prior to cooking..... say like spaghetti is 2 oz. dry = 200 calories. 2 oz. dry generally = about 1 cup cooked. (Found this info on the internet when I was cooking spaghetti the other day!)

SunshineAndLove

I don't know what a cup is but I weighed out 200g once it was cooked and found an entry in the diary for cooked so thanks for that.

karenjoy

I have found a mug in my kitchen that gives me almost exactly the right portion of dried pasts quills so I just use that now, but it gives me 200gm cooked and it helps that I can just use it, as it is easy to get it wrong and over time the portion size gets bigger and bigger lol

MrsSWW

I am guilty!! I am one of those annoying people who couldn't figure out which pasta in the database to use, so I've done my own - Shaz pasta uncooked 100g. I weigh dry pasta and eneter it as this - and let me tell you, you don't get much for the calories!!

billsica

Is raw pasta really that popular? I'm going to try it out tonight, do you use sauce? I like vodka sauce, its pretty darn good.

Even if it is cooked. why are you not just measuring the dry pasta, then cooking it? I don't think the water adds to many calories to it. Of course I make mine with salt and olive oil in the water, but I just don't count those calories.

To whomever posted about not using pasta, and squash and eggplant. How dare you.

Lanfear

The calories on the pasta packaging will tell you, usually....

Generally the calories per serving are for dried pasta - so just weigh it on the scales before you pop it in the water. Easy peasy!

A serving is usually 75g of pasta per person - not 5 or 6 handfuls like I used to chuck in the pot!!!