Pasta is SO calorific!
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This is what I had for dinner tonight served over pasta(about 43g dry) and a side of roasted broccoli. It had spinach and artichoke in it. All of this for about 530 calories(I made six servings out of it instead of 4). I don't think that is a calorific dish especially considering it had olive oil, butter, parmesan, cream cheese and sour cream in the sauce. If I add all of my meals together I am still below 1200 calories and have to figure out what I can add to my day to bring my calories up.
Only 530 cals including pasta (how ever much you ate)? Seems like a gross underestimate of cals to me.
I'd guess closer to 800-1000 cals/serving including the pasta, especially if you ate more than 1tbsp of the olive oil, butter, parmesan, cream cheese and sour cream sauce. OMG!!!!
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This is what I had for dinner tonight served over pasta(about 43g dry) and a side of roasted broccoli. It had spinach and artichoke in it. All of this for about 530 calories(I made six servings out of it instead of 4). I don't think that is a calorific dish especially considering it had olive oil, butter, parmesan, cream cheese and sour cream in the sauce. If I add all of my meals together I am still below 1200 calories and have to figure out what I can add to my day to bring my calories up.
Only 530 cals including pasta (how ever much you ate)? Seems like a gross underestimate of cals to me.
I'd guess closer to 800-1000 cals/serving including the pasta, especially if you ate more than 1tbsp of the olive oil, butter, parmesan, cream cheese and sour cream sauce. OMG!!!!
It was all entered into the recipe calculator and entries have been double checked. All individual ingredients are ones that I have entered so I know they are correct. Dividing it in to 6 servings instead of 4 cuts the calories quit a bit and is still large enough for me.
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@sgt1372
Here are the ingredients you mentioned...
2 T olive oil 240 cal
2 T butter 200
38g parm 136 (I used a little less that what the recipe called for)
4oz light cream cheese 280
1/4 c light sour cream 80
8 oz fettucine 800
Total in those ingredients...1736 cal. Calories for 6 servings 289.
Then add in the chicken(130), artichokes(23), milk(31) spinach and a few other small ingredients it came to 484 calories per meal. If I had of divided in to 4 servings it would have been over 700 calories. That is too many for my calorie allowance so I am willing to eat less in order to have good food and foods that I love. Before actively losing weight I did eat the 700+ serving. I have learned that I can eat less and still be satisfied and enjoy good food.9 -
If you say so but can you only eat just 1 serving? I'm skeptical but I'm not the one eating it. Never would.9
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If you say so but can you only eat just 1 serving? I'm skeptical but I'm not the one eating it. Never would.
Yes...I did for dinner tonight along with some broccoli. Appropriate servings sizes for me is something that I have been working on. Surprisingly it has been easier than I thought it would be. I don't finish dinner and have that overstuffed feeling. I still have room for a dessert if I wanted one.
I will remember not to ask you over for dinner on the nights that I am serving that dish.
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I'm having stirfry tonight subbing spiralized butternut squash "noodles" for Asian noodles or rice. I find that either squash or turnip noodles work well with a sweet-and-sour sauce.0
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Looks delicious, Annie. With the chicken and broccoli I also think your smaller serving could feel like plenty.4
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If you say so but can you only eat just 1 serving? I'm skeptical but I'm not the one eating it. Never would.
Yes...I did for dinner tonight along with some broccoli. Appropriate servings sizes for me is something that I have been working on. Surprisingly it has been easier than I thought it would be. I don't finish dinner and have that overstuffed feeling. I still have room for a dessert if I wanted one.
I will remember not to ask you over for dinner on the nights that I am serving that dish.
If you ever serve it for lunch you could invite me. I seldom eat more than 200 calories for dinner. I would only need about 3 pounds of broccoli with it to fill me up. I used to hate that slightly too full feeling now I really rely on it.0 -
If you say so but can you only eat just 1 serving? I'm skeptical but I'm not the one eating it. Never would.
Why wouldn't she eat "just" one serving? Chicken, pasta, sauce (I personally am not a fan of most creamy sauces but that has nothing to do with calories or fat), broccoli. Sounds like a good meal to me.6 -
The point of my post was to show the OP that if they want to have pasta it can work it into their meal plans. Maybe not as much as he/she was accustomed to. I love pasta...cheese...chicken...burgers...etc...etc. So I look for ways to make the foods that I love work for me.
OP...If you are a volume eater then maybe pasta won't work for you. I struggle with the calories in rice (maybe because I can take it or leave). I cook a lot of Asian dishes and I always struggle when I put the rice on the plate. Lately I have started subbing some of the rice with roasted cauliflower.4 -
I still eat pasta if i want it, i just adapt the recipe to include some veggies to pack it out so that i can use less pasta! ;-)3
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Looks delicious, Annie. With the chicken and broccoli I also think your smaller serving could feel like plenty.
It came out to be about 2 cups of the pasta dish. That should be plenty for a 66y/o lightly active woman. Is that enough volume wise for some people...maybe not. I however found it filling for me. I also found the macros good for me...38 carbs...18 fat...37...protein.4 -
I often think the suggested serving size of pasta and rice is not accurate...for example (and I've just double checked this), in a 500g pack of fusilli pasta the "suggested" serving size on the nutrition info is 170g (300 calories)...which means you don't even have 3 portions in that pack...that always annoys me...I'd rather cook 100g (176 cal) of Pasta to obtain 5 portions from the pack and boost each portion with veg and whatever meat or vegetable protein there is to achieve a reasonable meal without overloading on the pasta...
It also annoys me that 500g bags of rice have suggested servings of 75g per person...because again that leaves you with uneven portions (6.66 to be exact)...which apart from being another case of a leftover headache is clearly a representation of the Number of The Beast! (maybe I've discovered something here...)
Using 50g of rice per person gives you 10 portions of rice and you won't be damned in the flames of hell! lol! That probably speaks more about my thriftyness in portion saving than anything else...but it's something to ponder...3 -
If you say so but can you only eat just 1 serving? I'm skeptical but I'm not the one eating it. Never would.
Why wouldn't she eat "just" one serving? Chicken, pasta, sauce (I personally am not a fan of most creamy sauces but that has nothing to do with calories or fat), broccoli. Sounds like a good meal to me.
LOL As far as I know I have never communicated with the "sgt" so I am not sure why his odd response. I understood his doubts on the calories (kind of) because when I first made the recipe I too had doubts. That is why I went back and initially rechecked the ingredient entries.
As far as him doubting how much that I ate...well...who knows about that one. I found that whole post insulting.
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I often think the suggested serving size of pasta and rice is not accurate...for example (and I've just double checked this), in a 500g pack of fusilli pasta the "suggested" serving size on the nutrition info is 170g (300 calories)...which means you don't even have 3 portions in that pack...that always annoys me...I'd rather cook 100g (176 cal) of Pasta to obtain 5 portions from the pack and boost each portion with veg and whatever meat or vegetable protein there is to achieve a reasonable meal without overloading on the pasta...
It also annoys me that 500g bags of rice have suggested servings of 75g per person...because again that leaves you with uneven portions (6.66 to be exact)...which apart from being another case of a leftover headache is clearly a representation of the Number of The Beast! (maybe I've discovered something here...)
Using 50g of rice per person gives you 10 portions of rice and you won't be damned in the flames of hell! lol! That probably speaks more about my thriftyness in portion saving than anything else...but it's something to ponder...
You’re running into the issue of dried vs cooked weight here though. 170g of pasta weighed in dried form would be a massive portion! The information you’re looking at is the portion if you’re weighing it cooked, so it includes the volume of water the dried pasta absorbed during cooking. Some pasta packs will state a serving size of 56g dried weight as a portion. That 56g will weigh approximately 170g when weighed after cooking.4 -
And the reason pasta servings on the label are indicated from dry weight is also because different people cook their pasta to varying levels of 'doneness.' The softer you like your pasta, the more water it will have absorbed through the longer boiling time, making cooked weights highly inaccurate.1
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BarbaraHelen2013 wrote: »You’re running into the issue of dried vs cooked weight here though. 170g of pasta weighed in dried form would be a massive portion! The information you’re looking at is the portion if you’re weighing it cooked, so it includes the volume of water the dried pasta absorbed during cooking. Some pasta packs will state a serving size of 56g dried weight as a portion. That 56g will weigh approximately 170g when weighed after cooking.
Ah! You see you learn something new every day! Thank you BabaraHelen2013! But I also see...by looking closer at the instructions on the webpage for the pasta (https://www.tesco.com/groceries/en-GB/products/254878545)...the suggested 75g of uncooked pasta...which gives you the 6.66 portions per this pack...and the devil's jiggery-pokery ensues again! lol!
But if I calculate correctly...a 50g "dry" weight serving would garner approximately 113g cooked weight at 200kcal...so a saving of 100kcal as well as the opportunity for 10 portions in a pack...2 -
I’m really worried now. I weighed myself 200g cooked pasta thinking it amounted to 350calories, br that seems wrong0
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I’m really worried now. I weighed myself 200g cooked pasta thinking it amounted to 350calories, br that seems wrong
i don't think its too horribly off...56g dry pasta is about 200 cal and cooks to about 170g...but google is our friend when it comes to finding dry info (since i know the package you had only included the cooked weight)0
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