Does 200g of penne pasta really have this many calories? It’s like half a plate at most and almost half my daily intake
by Lintydint
Does 200g of penne pasta really have this many calories? It’s like half a plate at most and almost half my daily intake
by Lintydint
10 Comments
Are you weighing it dry?
You must’ve weighed the cooked version that’s full of water and heavy while counting dry pasta calories
Pasta is insane, when you’re on a low calorie diet you cannot have a decent meal of pasta 😓
I don’t know this particular product, but dry pasta has cca 350 kcal/100 g and cooked pasta is about 150-200 kcal /100 g.
weigh your pasta before cooking it !!
Weigh it dry but yes you don’t get as much pasta as you would want no matter how you weigh it
One cup of cooked macaroni is around 300 calories. This is a very general estimate, but it gives you a ballpark for caloric load. What you logged here is likely 2 cups of cooked pasta.
I hate weighing pasta before cooking it because I cook for multiple people. I don’t want to have to actually count out individual pieces of pasta to know I’m only eating what I weighed. So I ballpark 1 cup as 300 calories. Pasta and rice are the only things I don’t weigh when I’m tracking. I just know how many calories are in a cooked cup.
Look at the serving size on the package, and measure that amount dry. There’s your amount, and a serving size is far less than the amount most would see as a typical serving.
A pasta serving for an adult is 90-100 g uncooked, which has around 350 calories, so it sounds about right.
Plug for Fiber Gourmet pasta. Keeps my pasta cravings doable. Half the calories and a crap ton of fiber!