Pasta for dinner

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Anonymous wrote:I am Indian and we often serve rice or roti/paratha with a potato/root vegetable dish. I’ve had many questions about this.

But do you just serve your guests a potato or bowl of rice for lunch? One or the other, definitely not both, and just butter for sauce.

This is such a good example. Giving your guest a potato is super weird. Serving up a loaded baked potato (butter, cheese, bacon, sour cream, chives, maybe some broccoli) would actually be a meal. Buttered noodles = not a meal. Pasta with some kind of sauce = meal.

Butter cheese bacon and sour cream!?

What do you put on a loaded baked potato?

I swear this thread is so funny. I've gone from being called an almond mom because I think plain noodles for dinner is weird, but I guess my version of a loaded baked potato is too much?

[Anonymous]

People are crazy. A host’s home is not a restaurant. If you don’t like what’s offered just pick at your meal and eat later. You won’t die of starvation.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I am Indian and we often serve rice or roti/paratha with a potato/root vegetable dish. I’ve had many questions about this.

But do you just serve your guests a potato or bowl of rice for lunch? One or the other, definitely not both, and just butter for sauce.

You don't have to be Indian to serve rice and a potato based dish for lunch, and there's nothing wrong with it either. It doesn't matter if OP is Italian or half Navajo-half Swedish. Pasta is good enough for a quick on the spot meal that wasn't planned in advance. Not great, but certainly not deadly, unless you're an almond mom whose blood pressure spikes just thinking about a Barilla blue box. The guest probably gave her kids some fruit and nuts when they got home to balance it out. And then made a mental not to decline future lunch invitations.

But that's not what OP served at all. I'm not sure she even served cheese. My kids would have asked for cheese on that bland hospital food. And for the record the mother didn't complain at all. OP could have just been embarrassed about the meal and extremely sensitive. It could have been a simple question implying "are we ready to eat?"

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I love pasta, but the only ones I really like is the Barilla protein pasta. I started eating that when I had gestational diabetes, and every time I checked my glucose numbers after eating the numbers were great. My nutritionist was impressed.

This is the only type of pasta I serve, and now my kids only like this pasta too. It's not carb heavy, so if my DD eats just the pasta, I'm ok with it.

But, once in a while, if they are at a friends, and they eat just regular buttered pasta, that's fine, as long as it's once in a while.

If you are regularly feeding your kid just carb heavy pasta, then it's probably not very healthy. Even so, I would not have said anything, even if you fed my kid lunchables. It's just once. That is a bit rude.

Barilla’s regular elbow macaroni is 200 calories, 39 net carbs, and 7 grams of protein per serving. Their Protein+ elbow macaroni is 190 calories, 35 net carbs, and 10 grams protein per serving. There’s not a significant difference in carbs between the two, but added protein helps you to digest the carbs more slowly.

[Anonymous]

For the other parent people keep saying it's just "one meal" because we can all see it's not a great meal, but per OP this is how she and her family eat at most meals. Nary a protein, vegetable, nor fruit. Why does OP eat like that? Is OP unaware that most people don't eat like that?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Husband and I are both Italian. His parents “are off the boat”. My grandparents were too and my parents were born in this country.

We have always had pasta for lunch or dinner.

I was with my kids (girl age 6 and boy 4) and a friend and her kids at a park. I invited them back to our house for lunch.

I made pasta-penne with butter for the kids and vodka sauce for myself and my friend.

She looked at it and said “is this lunch? A bowl of pasta?”

I said yes this is what we usually have. She looked at me oddly and didn’t say anything else and ate.

But what a weird response.

She was subtly asking where the rest of the Vodka was. It was a long day with the kids.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I am Indian and we often serve rice or roti/paratha with a potato/root vegetable dish. I’ve had many questions about this.

But do you just serve your guests a potato or bowl of rice for lunch? One or the other, definitely not both, and just butter for sauce.

This is such a good example. Giving your guest a potato is super weird. Serving up a loaded baked potato (butter, cheese, bacon, sour cream, chives, maybe some broccoli) would actually be a meal. Buttered noodles = not a meal. Pasta with some kind of sauce = meal.

Butter cheese bacon and sour cream!?

Yes idiot thats a loaded potato

[Anonymous]

Is Op 400 lbs? I just can’t

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Husband and I are both Italian. His parents “are off the boat”. My grandparents were too and my parents were born in this country.

We have always had pasta for lunch or dinner.

I was with my kids (girl age 6 and boy 4) and a friend and her kids at a park. I invited them back to our house for lunch.

I made pasta-penne with butter for the kids and vodka sauce for myself and my friend.

She looked at it and said “is this lunch? A bowl of pasta?”

I said yes this is what we usually have. She looked at me oddly and didn’t say anything else and ate.

But what a weird response.

She was subtly asking where the rest of the Vodka was. It was a long day with the kids.

She's not an almond mom, just a Wasp!

[Anonymous]

Folks despite the title OP SERVED LUNCH TO GUESTS.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:For the other parent people keep saying it's just "one meal" because we can all see it's not a great meal, but per OP this is how she and her family eat at most meals. Nary a protein, vegetable, nor fruit. Why does OP eat like that? Is OP unaware that most people don't eat like that?

That's OP's business if she eats like that regularly. It's a conversation for another thread. For the guest, for whom it was just one meal, it really does not warrant a comment. On a scale of 0 to 10, OP's lunch was a 4. The guest's comment was a 0. If you can't say something nice don't say anything at all.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Is Op 400 lbs? I just can’t

Portion size is the determining factor, not the food. If you ate only 600 calories a day that were only in the form of McD's fries you would be very skinny. Malnourished, too.

[Anonymous]

Look the question was if thew lunch guest was rude. Yes she was
If OP had served sandwiches and guest said "a cold sanwich for lunch" that would be rude.
If OP had served a big bowl of chicken and vegetable soup and guest has said "soup for lunch" that would be rude.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Look the question was if thew lunch guest was rude. Yes she was
If OP had served sandwiches and guest said "a cold sanwich for lunch" that would be rude.
If OP had served a big bowl of chicken and vegetable soup and guest has said "soup for lunch" that would be rude.

Exactly. The specific lunch is not important here.

[Anonymous]

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

It's weird that people think they are entitled to things in other people's homes. You're lucky to be offered anything, you know.