Pasta for dinner

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Anonymous wrote:So weird.

If someone gives me free food I just stfu and eat it. Especially if it’s homemade.

Box pasta and butter is a homemade meal?

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Anonymous wrote:I’m surprised by the Italian people saying this is a normal meal for them. A friend of mine who is a visiting diplomat from Italy has remarked multiple times how she was shocked how much pasta Americans eat at meals. She claimed that in Italy, the pasta is usually just 1/4 to 1/3 of the plate, with most of the rest being veggies and then small protein. Also, they obviously eat fresh pasta not the processed junk most of us eat. She looks amazing so I assumed what she said was true.

I do think pasta and sauce or butter/noodles is a bit strange as a meal, but I also think it’s strange to come here to ask about it (I guess that’s what anon forums are for though so I need to get over that). I usually serve a side of steamed broccoli and/or soup (literally always have this in fridge).

What's wrong with just that being your lunch? Nobody wants a huge plate of pasta for lunch but a small plate of pasta is delightful. Everyone wants to keep adding foods and sides and that is why everyone is overweight.

Nobody is overweight because they had fruit on the side or some steamed broccoli. They are overweight because they ate a giant bowl of buttered noodles for lunch and then dinner.

Oh, the broccoli has to be steamed? Wait, am I supposed to add cheese for protein, or avoid adding any fats?

If you have to ask, it explains your weight problem.

Can lemon juice and garlic powder be added or is that too many trace calories?

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Anonymous wrote:I’m surprised by the Italian people saying this is a normal meal for them. A friend of mine who is a visiting diplomat from Italy has remarked multiple times how she was shocked how much pasta Americans eat at meals. She claimed that in Italy, the pasta is usually just 1/4 to 1/3 of the plate, with most of the rest being veggies and then small protein. Also, they obviously eat fresh pasta not the processed junk most of us eat. She looks amazing so I assumed what she said was true.

I do think pasta and sauce or butter/noodles is a bit strange as a meal, but I also think it’s strange to come here to ask about it (I guess that’s what anon forums are for though so I need to get over that). I usually serve a side of steamed broccoli and/or soup (literally always have this in fridge).

What's wrong with just that being your lunch? Nobody wants a huge plate of pasta for lunch but a small plate of pasta is delightful. Everyone wants to keep adding foods and sides and that is why everyone is overweight.

Nobody is overweight because they had fruit on the side or some steamed broccoli. They are overweight because they ate a giant bowl of buttered noodles for lunch and then dinner.

Oh, the broccoli has to be steamed? Wait, am I supposed to add cheese for protein, or avoid adding any fats?

If you have to ask, it explains your weight problem.

Can lemon juice and garlic powder be added or is that too many trace calories?

Garlic powder on broccoli? Gross.

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OP did you call to make sure your friend got home? She could have fainted while driving home due to the lack of protein and sleepiness from the carbs. You could have killed her and her child, and possibly multiple others with your recklessness!

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Anonymous wrote:OP did you call to make sure your friend got home? She could have fainted while driving home due to the lack of protein and sleepiness from the carbs. You could have killed her and her child, and possibly multiple others with your recklessness!

They probably just ate some real food when they got home. Maybe she will send some groceries to OP anonymously since she seems to be out of food and maybe on hard times.

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Anonymous wrote:It’s weird to not offer a salad or vegetable or fruit.

It’s rude to comment on what a host is serving unless it’s complimentary. I’d be happy

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Anonymous wrote:So weird.

If someone gives me free food I just stfu and eat it. Especially if it’s homemade.

Box pasta and butter is a homemade meal?

Well it wasn’t carry out pizza.

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Anonymous wrote:I wouldn't say anything, but I think it's odd to serve just pasta with butter or tomato sauce - no protein, no veggies -- as a meal. We eat pasta multiple times a week, but never *just* pasta.

It’s not a restaurant. It’s not a dinner party. It’s kids getting together and I will bet they didn’t ask where the protein was.

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Anonymous wrote:So weird.

If someone gives me free food I just stfu and eat it. Especially if it’s homemade.

Box pasta and butter is a homemade meal?

She made the mother a homemade vodka sauce. Did you not read that?

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Anonymous wrote:I’m surprised by the Italian people saying this is a normal meal for them. A friend of mine who is a visiting diplomat from Italy has remarked multiple times how she was shocked how much pasta Americans eat at meals. She claimed that in Italy, the pasta is usually just 1/4 to 1/3 of the plate, with most of the rest being veggies and then small protein. Also, they obviously eat fresh pasta not the processed junk most of us eat. She looks amazing so I assumed what she said was true.

I do think pasta and sauce or butter/noodles is a bit strange as a meal, but I also think it’s strange to come here to ask about it (I guess that’s what anon forums are for though so I need to get over that). I usually serve a side of steamed broccoli and/or soup (literally always have this in fridge).

What's wrong with just that being your lunch? Nobody wants a huge plate of pasta for lunch but a small plate of pasta is delightful. Everyone wants to keep adding foods and sides and that is why everyone is overweight.

Nobody is overweight because they had fruit on the side or some steamed broccoli. They are overweight because they ate a giant bowl of buttered noodles for lunch and then dinner.

Oh, the broccoli has to be steamed? Wait, am I supposed to add cheese for protein, or avoid adding any fats?

LOL. You can never please these people who are so anxious about their food intake. I think they need the GLP drugs more than fatties do, because their "food noise" or whatever it's called is like a car alarm that never shuts up. "Must have protein! No, not THAT protein!!"

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This thread is epic. Almond mom insanity on full display. "WhErE iz tHe pROteeeEEeeeeEeEEeEEEEEEnNn!?!?!?!?!?!?!?!?!"

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This is a pretty weird meal for just a lunch for the average American.

My parents are immigrants too but it is more typical to serve sandwiches and fruit or a vegetable or a protein with a vegetable. A pasta salad with protein and vegetables probably would have been better.

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Anonymous wrote:So weird.

If someone gives me free food I just stfu and eat it. Especially if it’s homemade.

Box pasta and butter is a homemade meal?

She made the mother a homemade vodka sauce. Did you not read that?

I didn’t. I read that she put vodka sauce on the pasta, but not that it was home made.

If she went to the trouble of making the vodka sauce you would think that she’d have offered it to everyone. I get that not all kids like it, but many kids do.

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Anonymous wrote:I'd toss some chicken in there. You're just feeding your kids carbs as a meal.

Everyone can manage one meal without protein. Ain't gonna either away and die.

With the amount of exercise I do I just found out I’m was tremendously under eating protein- like to the point of low immunoglobulins and illnesses. Most women in my circle exercise like I do. It’s protein or carbs to stay in the right calorie range. Most skinny but flabby Europeans don’t exercise like we do in the UMC+ circles because sports were as accessible when they were growing up.

Stop lying to yourself Janice you’re not an athlete

Actually I played in junior Olympics when I was growing up - what do you know from your sofa clicking in at 300lbs of cellulite

lol Junior Olympics? Give me a break Janice

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Anonymous wrote:It’s weird to not offer a salad or vegetable or fruit.

It’s rude to comment on what a host is serving unless it’s complimentary. I’d be happy

Wut so if it’s complimentary it’s ok