Does spaghetti really have 300 calories/100g?
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AkramSeid
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something is probably wrong with myfitnesspal
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Nothing wrong with MFP, 100g weight of dried pasta does indeed have well over 300 calories!
Normal serving size is 50-60g weighed dry.13 -
Yep, pasta calories add up quickly.4
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Yes. 56g is 200 calories according to my box label.
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This is dry weight. If anything, that calorie amount is low, as most pasta has closer to 400 per 100 grams dry. It weighs quite a bit more than that after you cook it. 100 grams of dry turns into about 250 grams of cooked pasta (give or take depending on cooking times and other factors)7
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It’s a sad reality that pasta is so calorie laden.5
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texasredreb wrote: »It’s a sad reality that pasta is so calorie laden.
It's not really though. There are a lot of foods that are more calorie dense. It can easily be made part of reasonable calorie dinners. You just can't eat giant plates smothered with fatty sauces20 -
texasredreb wrote: »It’s a sad reality that pasta is so calorie laden.
It's not really though. There are a lot of foods that are more calorie dense. It can easily be made part of reasonable calorie dinners. You just can't eat giant plates smothered with fatty sauces
Whilst you’re right, there are many more calorie dense foods out there (nuts spring to mind!), it’s still hard for some of us to fit pasta into our numbers. This is not aimed at you, specifically, but I do become irritated when I see people say similar things. I’m a very petite woman in my late 50s who maintains at 1134cals so must drop to 800-900cals to lose even a half pound a week. My favourite meals would ideally be pasta based (for the flavour of the tomato based sauce, generally) but I have to keep it to an occasional treat when I can fit it in.
I appreciate that everyone is different but the sweeping generalisation that pasta can reasonably be accommodated is still somewhat erroneous!24 -
I kinda agree with you @BarbaraHelen2013 though I can maintain on substantially more calories than you, I have had to forego my giant plates of pasta topped with delicious chunky sauces or olive oily sauces because it would mean that that's all i could eat in the whole day.
I now eat it as a treat when i'm not tracking food, or if I AM tracking, only when i'm on maintenance or surplus and even then, it's like this sad little 100g cooked pasta kind of meal. Which is like minimal. Not what I would consider an actual serving of pasta.
It's not easily accomodated unless you are happy to eat 100g cooked. Which normally I'm not LOL! So I tend to eat other stuff instead. Like rice - I get more bang for buck with rice.11 -
texasredreb wrote: »It’s a sad reality that pasta is so calorie laden.
It's not really though. There are a lot of foods that are more calorie dense. It can easily be made part of reasonable calorie dinners. You just can't eat giant plates smothered with fatty sauces
True enough. I stick to a tiny amount of regular pasta and a heaping amount of tomato based sauce. It fills me up and doesn't leave me wanting more. I sometimes swap regular noodles for "alt" noodles of various kinds. That also works for me.
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I go for the smaller cooked portion of pasta and happily fill it out with various vegetables topped with tomato sauce. Spaghetti squash, butternut, zoodles, shaved carrot strips, asparagus, sauteed spinach, even steamed broccoli are fabulous carriers of a zesty red sauce.6
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I have seen this argument before. Everyone thinks they need to plate a huge amount of pasta because when they go out to eat, since the pasta is the cheapest ingredient on the menu, they get a ton of it.
Just weigh out 3 oz and cook it up al dente and plate it with an appropriate amount of tomato sauce and see for yourself.11 -
wilson10102018 wrote: »I have seen this argument before. Everyone thinks they need to plate a huge amount of pasta because when they go out to eat, since the pasta is the cheapest ingredient on the menu, they get a ton of it.
Just weigh out 3 oz and cook it up al dente and plate it with an appropriate amount of tomato sauce and see for yourself.
Yes this is it. Restaurants give us enough pasta for 3 people at least.
I did a high carb diet preparing for an event a few months ago, and that involved a lot of whole wheat pasta with some chicken and mild seasoning. It was a actually hard for me to get as many calories as I wanted, because the pasta filled me up so much more than my normal diet.3 -
cmriverside wrote: »Yes. 56g is 200 calories according to my box label.
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It's depressing ,right?
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I got a bit inspired. While wheat pasta with a cna of tuna, some ligtt mayonnaise, and a touch of hot sauce. May not be fancy but it's tasty and filling. It clocked in at around 500-550 calories, which is a below average dinner for me, and could even be worked into a 1200 calorie diet pretty easily.
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I eat at 1300 cals and eat pasta frequently. It’s not hard.10
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I eat at 1300 cals and eat pasta frequently. It’s not hard.
For some of us pasta is a trigger food. So it IS hard. I CAN eat a tiny little 100g serving of cooked pasta with heaps of sauce and make it fit. But it's not satisfying for me personally.
I LIKE the 3-people serving sizes in restaurants. That's how much pasta i'd eat normally prior to calorie counting.
So i'd rather eat other stuff that would satisfy me more than a piddly little tiny serving of pasta that will just leave me craving more. I cook a mean pasta. It's hard to eat just 100g of it.14 -
corinasue1143 wrote: »cmriverside wrote: »Yes. 56g is 200 calories according to my box label.
10 lbs. I'm guessing a big box store.0 -
I love spaghetti squash in place of regular pasta. When cooked correctly, it turns out the consistency of al dente angel hair. Just as rich and filling of a dish, but no guilt.4
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