I do this consistently. I finally started throwing the leftovers in zip-lock bags and freezing them for quick lunches. I call it unintentional meal prepping.
I’m notorious for this! Find sauce and a firehouse! They will love a kind face and someone else cooking! If you’re lucky they will invite you for one of their meals!
Pasta omelette is your new best friend! I’m the same, always cook too much. Next day, beat up some eggs, throw in pasta and make omelette or chuck in the oven and bake. Trick taught to me by my Italian “mama” when I lived there
I stopped trying years ago. Now I just lock in and cook the whole pound every time.
My strategy has been to become the pasta fairy for my apartment building. My partner and I separate our 4-6 servings and I give the rest away to neighbors. 😆🍝
I get goodies in return, so it's mutually beneficial!
Use the plate method. Put it on the plate before you put it in to boil and consider that it will expand. Does it look enough? Is it too much or too little? Adjust accordingly.
A good portion is about 4oz (a quarter pound) dry; this is where a scale comes in handy. Although when we were teenagers, my sister and I used to eat around a third to a half a pound of pasta for dinner, each.
4oz = 4x28 = 112g. that's a fair old portion. with ragu/bolognese we would typically make slightly less pasta, but with a tomato and cheese sauce a little more. I guess it depends on what you're serving it with.
As an aside, from other butter-based conversations, I am starting to realise that in America, scales are not a compulsory kitchen implement, hence all that cup nonsense.
It's so bad! Not only does it look like nothing when you put it into a saucepan, it also comes out like 2 times bigger than you put it in. And then I'm the idiot eating 2 massive bowls of pasta!
I had this problem for years! But a kitchen scale is your best friend here. 80-100g dry pasta per person 2.8-3.5 oz for those of you who do that) - low end if you serve pasta with some meat, more if pasta is the main player. Works like a charm!
If you eat a standard portion separate the box into quarters and each quarter is usually good for one person. That or cold pasta at 2 am is also really good
LoL I don't have to eye ball it, make way to much, learn from my mistake then buy a different noodle then accidentally make more then I need again. I've broken the cycle
You can always try my trick, which is to become insulin resistant and then begrudgingly swear off pasta and feel massively sad about it because pasta is amazing
Reminds me of the time I anonymously ordered my sister a “Pasta Drop” and she got 40 lbs of pasta in the mail and no idea who sent it to her. I signed the note from the Flying Spaghetti Monster.
allegedly around 70g is a single portion. or in our house a pack of 500g for 5 people. with some leftovers. so basically a pack is your lowest unit of measure 😉
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My strategy has been to become the pasta fairy for my apartment building. My partner and I separate our 4-6 servings and I give the rest away to neighbors. 😆🍝
I get goodies in return, so it's mutually beneficial!
Exactly what I did with chicken Alfredo 😭
Ta Da!
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Weight is your friend.
As an aside, from other butter-based conversations, I am starting to realise that in America, scales are not a compulsory kitchen implement, hence all that cup nonsense.
You heard her boys
Bring Your Own To Go Container
I now work to 100g per person regardless of form which gives a big portion.
amount when you put it in the pot….