pasta question

healthyeating555

I weighed ronzoni rotelle pasta. It came to around 11 oz uncooked . When i cooked it it doubled or more like 24oz. Cant get the cooked amt to show on food drop down screen. I ate 24oz of pasta with my homemade sauce . Sauce is not the issue . . Would anyone know how many calories i consumed with just the 24oz of pasta cooked? Its the cooked and uncooked thats confusing me. One rung up as a whopping 2400 calories and the other showed in the 900 range which sounds more like it . Please help

Mokey41

Pasta is usually weighed dry. Read your package to be accurate.

ken_hogan

I always weigh mine out dry. All the pasta boxes I've seen say dry weight.

aznsdgrl

Dry weight

healthyeating555

So youre saying i should enter it in my dinner as the dry weight and not the cooked ?

majope

Ronzoni rotelle is 210 calories for 2 ounces (dry), so 105 calories per ounce. 105 X 11 = 1155.

x_JT_x

It doesn't matter what the pasta ended up weighing after it was cooked. If you measured it dry and came up with 11 oz then that's the weight you use when determining the calorie count. If you ate all of the 11oz you measured out then you multiply the values on the nutrition label by 5.5 (11.5 oz is 5.5 servings).

According to Ronzoni's box label:

Calories per serving: 210 * 5.5 = 1155
Fat: 1 g * 5.5 = 5.5
Carbs: 42 g * 5.5 = 231
Protein: 7 g *5.5 = 38.5

Hope that helps.

auteurfille22

So youre saying i should enter it in my dinner as the dry weight and not the cooked ?

yes. when it's cooked the only thing that is changing its weight is water - water doesn't have any calories!

ken_hogan

So youre saying i should enter it in my dinner as the dry weight and not the cooked ?

Yes, dry.

x_JT_x

So youre saying i should enter it in my dinner as the dry weight and not the cooked ?

Yes, because the values on the box are for dry weight. As long as you weighed it prior to cooking and you only ate that amount, you're good to go.

airangel59

http://ronzoni.newworldpasta.com/pasta_nutrition.cfm?prodId=00713000012400CT00

serving size 2 oz (56g) dry uncooked pers nutrition label on the box 210 calories for that amount

Crosbinium

Dry weight is what you use for pasta. In general 2 oz of dry pasta is 200 cals so 11 oz would be about 1100 cals.

healthyeating555

wow i better save pasta for a special occasion unless i intend on doing 4hrs of cardio walking, treadmill etc

healthyeating555

I didnt realize that one tablespoon of olive oil is 120 calories . I used nearly half cup . Killed my calorie total

Elliemisaurus

http://www.barilla.com/faq?p=measuring

That site was REALLY helpful for me, since I don'd have a food scale...especially for making big pots of pasta! Tells you what a serving is when cooked.

LoraF83

wow i better save pasta for a special occasion unless i intend on doing 4hrs of cardio walking, treadmill etc

You shouldn't have to do that.

Weight out 2oz of dry pasta and then cook it. I think you'll be surprised how much you get for about 200 calories.

blleadon

I look at how many servings in the box of pasta (assuming I'm cooking the whole box) and divide it that way when I get my serving

healthyeating555

I didnt realize that if i weighed even 4oz before i cooked it , i would get double that after i cooked it. I over did it this time

llkilgore

wow i better save pasta for a special occasion unless i intend on doing 4hrs of cardio walking, treadmill etc

Either that or recondition your eyes and stomach to be satisfied with a single standard full sized serving of pasta, which is generally 2oz, dry weight. I think I was eating closer to 3oz before I "reformed" and 2oz looked a little skimpy at first. Now it looks as normal as my size 4 jeans.

grunggy

Yes