• dustyData
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    Weigh the thing, that’s how they do it in restaurants. 2 ounces or roughly 60 grams of dry pasta per person if the pasta is a side for a main protein or dish. 100gr per serving if you like to eat a lot of pasta, or if the whole meal is only pasta mixed with something. 200 gr if you’re eating nothing but pure pasta for that meal and want to feel full and hate yourself afterwards.

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      Agree weigh, but jeez that feels like a lot of pasta lol. I usually do 40 grams with some bread for dinner. I can’t imagine eating 60 grams as a side but I like to leave room for dessert.

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      I like that there’s a fancy word for it. I’ve always done food for two or three days in one go because I’m lazy. I don’t want to be cooking every day. But in reality I’ve been meal prepping this whole time.

      Feels good

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      I just cooked an entire 900 g bag of cavatappi and froze most of it. Will defrost portions as needed. Way easier than washing a pot every time.

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    I just cook 250g, or half a package, every time and that works fine. It’s getting more complicated if I cook for more people than just me though.

    People always judge me for it, since I’m skinny.

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      That’s what I do but I’m also cooking for two every time, and we usually have enough leftovers for somebody to have lunch the next few days. That’s really impressive that you can put that amount of spaghetti away all by yourself.

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    Oh, it doesn’t look like enough. All add in some veggies to fill it out. Oh, still not enough. Maybe some tofu.

    And then you have enough for 3 meals before you know it.

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    I usually do a whole 500g bag. Can’t go that wrong, there will be enough.

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    One bag per person, why are people failing at this?

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      Right. Clearly they package it by serving for our convenience

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    Pasta roughly doubles in size so just imagine twice as much as you cook.

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    When I was young I’d cook the whole 16 oz package and make way too much…

    I’ve since learned that because the pasta absorbs a lot of water, a few oz of dry pasta actually makes way more than it looks like it will. For me, 5.33 oz of dry pasta (third of the bag) works perfect. You can do less though if you don’t need that much.

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      Last time I made spaghetti I googled how much to use and almost all the answers I found were talking about the weight after it was cooked. Why would anyone be asking that question if they knew how to tell how much it was after it cooked?

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        Lol i think i’ve seen those recipes. Probably written by the same people that say a recipe will take “10 mins of prep work”, but really it’s like 45 mins, and they recommend cutting veggies while something is already started cooking for… not that much time really, so you have to RUSH, and it’s just awful.