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Anonymous
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Yeah, no problem.
A lot of people are like my dad when it comes to pasta. He just boils the entire box and fills up an entire bowl, completely ignoring portions or calories. I actually grabbed a box of it and it reads that there are 8 servings per box, with 210 calories per serving. A big problem is that A LOT of people seem to be taking restaurant style portions as what you should eat.
I mean, if someone puts half the box of cooked pasta in their bowl, then cheese, sauce, meatballs. You're easily looking at around 1,200 calories for a single meal, not even considering the calories in a non-water drink like beer, soda, juice or milk.
I feel that if I try to eat pasta as a whole meal and adhere to the serving size, it's not enough in my stomach. So pasta is a side for me if I ever do eat whole calorie pasta. Not uncommon for me to make a stir-fry with soba noodles, shrimp or chicken and vegetables, though. The key is keeping the lean protein source as the bulk of the meal and the carb source as the side.
I've also recently gotten into tofu shirataki noodles (in b4 weeaboo), which are made completely from tofu and vegetable sprouts/roots. An entire 8 ounce package has 40 calories. It allows me to get a big serving of "pasta" without worrying at all about calories, so the bulk of my calories can come from meats. They really don't taste all that different from regular noodles, although they're pretty fucking chewy, which is good if you like al dente pasta.
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