Pasta for dinner

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Anonymous wrote:Buttered pasta is for picky eaters. I view pasta as a side dish, not a main meal. I don’t care for pasta as a main meal. I want some kind of sandwhich/chips for lunch. Think Panera.

The good thing about Panera is you can get 1/2 sandwich and 1/2 soup or salad or pasta. A variety but not huge portions.

it’s ironic that people saying they would hate just pasta for lunch are raving about of all things…Panera. What a twist.

Right??!! Give me a good pasta dish (which OP served the adults) over a crappy panera sandwich and bag of chips any day!

But the issue here is what she served the kids. If she'd offered the guest's kids the sauce, that would have been a huge improvement.

Why? I’m sure the kids are just eating quickly because they have to in order to go play. Most kids leave half of it on the plate no matter how much adults think it’s 5 star food. They have more fun things to get to. Unbelievable how clueless adults can be.

My kids have never been like that. They would rather have been offered some sauce even if it took an extra minute to pour it on, and then they would have eaten the whole bowl.

Same, manners are a big deal and that education begins with parents.

Says the people who criticized serving pasta and butter, a staple for kids everywhere. Don’t be a hypocrite.

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Anonymous wrote:Buttered pasta is for picky eaters. I view pasta as a side dish, not a main meal. I don’t care for pasta as a main meal. I want some kind of sandwhich/chips for lunch. Think Panera.

The good thing about Panera is you can get 1/2 sandwich and 1/2 soup or salad or pasta. A variety but not huge portions.

it’s ironic that people saying they would hate just pasta for lunch are raving about of all things…Panera. What a twist.

Right??!! Give me a good pasta dish (which OP served the adults) over a crappy panera sandwich and bag of chips any day!

But the issue here is what she served the kids. If she'd offered the guest's kids the sauce, that would have been a huge improvement.

Why? I’m sure the kids are just eating quickly because they have to in order to go play. Most kids leave half of it on the plate no matter how much adults think it’s 5 star food. They have more fun things to get to. Unbelievable how clueless adults can be.

My kids have never been like that. They would rather have been offered some sauce even if it took an extra minute to pour it on, and then they would have eaten the whole bowl.

Same, manners are a big deal and that education begins with parents.

Says the people who criticized serving pasta and butter, a staple for kids everywhere. Don’t be a hypocrite.

I’m not aware of pasta and butter being a staple for kids everywhere. But even if that were true, kids waiting until others have finished before getting up is also “a staple for most civilized countries.”

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Anonymous wrote:There are poor peasants and well-off people.

There is a dietary distinction between them.

The fat well-off people are eating food that tastes better than pasta with butter. I know I'd rather get fat on seafood risotto, than on pasta with butter.

Wouldn’t you rather be satisfied with less than constantly needing more? What’s the point of always chasing gluttony?

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I love butter pasta. I see nothing wrong with what she served for an everyday impromptu lunch.

My kids are grown, but if I had to whip something up for kids coming off the playground, it would be PB&J with toasted bread and milk. I once offered that to a homeschooled kid and she looked at it like she had never seen such a thing. I figured her parents didn’t use jif but a healthier non sugar brand. Sigh.

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Anonymous wrote:I love butter pasta. I see nothing wrong with what she served for an everyday impromptu lunch.

My kids are grown, but if I had to whip something up for kids coming off the playground, it would be PB&J with toasted bread and milk. I once offered that to a homeschooled kid and she looked at it like she had never seen such a thing. I figured her parents didn’t use jif but a healthier non sugar brand. Sigh.

I've never heard of making a PBJ on toasted bread.

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Anonymous wrote:There are poor peasants and well-off people.

There is a dietary distinction between them.

The fat well-off people are eating food that tastes better than pasta with butter. I know I'd rather get fat on seafood risotto, than on pasta with butter.

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Anonymous wrote:I love butter pasta. I see nothing wrong with what she served for an everyday impromptu lunch.

My kids are grown, but if I had to whip something up for kids coming off the playground, it would be PB&J with toasted bread and milk. I once offered that to a homeschooled kid and she looked at it like she had never seen such a thing. I figured her parents didn’t use jif but a healthier non sugar brand. Sigh.

I've never heard of making a PBJ on toasted bread.

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Anonymous wrote:I love butter pasta. I see nothing wrong with what she served for an everyday impromptu lunch.

My kids are grown, but if I had to whip something up for kids coming off the playground, it would be PB&J with toasted bread and milk. I once offered that to a homeschooled kid and she looked at it like she had never seen such a thing. I figured her parents didn’t use jif but a healthier non sugar brand. Sigh.

I've never heard of making a PBJ on toasted bread.

Me either. But grilled PB sandwiches are a culinary delight that not enough people appreciate. I’ve eaten all over the world at all sorts of restaurants and enjoy an octopus risotto or whatever as much as the next gal — but a fluffernutter sandwich with a glass of cold milk remains one of my dream meals. Along with buttered pastina (maybe with tiny bits of ham ripped up into it).

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Geez, now all I want for lunch is buttered pastina.

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Anonymous wrote:There are poor peasants and well-off people.

There is a dietary distinction between them.

Who is posting this garbage? It doesn’t even make any sense.

Probably the person who starts all their posts with "I'm French..."

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Anonymous wrote:I love butter pasta. I see nothing wrong with what she served for an everyday impromptu lunch.

My kids are grown, but if I had to whip something up for kids coming off the playground, it would be PB&J with toasted bread and milk. I once offered that to a homeschooled kid and she looked at it like she had never seen such a thing. I figured her parents didn’t use jif but a healthier non sugar brand. Sigh.

I've never heard of making a PBJ on toasted bread.

+1 same!

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Anonymous wrote:I love butter pasta. I see nothing wrong with what she served for an everyday impromptu lunch.

My kids are grown, but if I had to whip something up for kids coming off the playground, it would be PB&J with toasted bread and milk. I once offered that to a homeschooled kid and she looked at it like she had never seen such a thing. I figured her parents didn’t use jif but a healthier non sugar brand. Sigh.

I've never heard of making a PBJ on toasted bread.

+1 same!

Try it! Dunk in milk.

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Anonymous wrote:I love butter pasta. I see nothing wrong with what she served for an everyday impromptu lunch.

My kids are grown, but if I had to whip something up for kids coming off the playground, it would be PB&J with toasted bread and milk. I once offered that to a homeschooled kid and she looked at it like she had never seen such a thing. I figured her parents didn’t use jif but a healthier non sugar brand. Sigh.

I worked outside the house FT when my kids were little--they would likely have looked at it "funny" only because they might be thrilled to get that rather than the sugar free non GMO PB & homemade ww bread they did get. Weird to relate that to homeschool.
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Gen Z is like that

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Anonymous wrote:Balanced meals become important as you age, to prevent diabetes and high cholesterol. There is science that shows that if you eat fiber first, as in, a small salad, or a few vegetables from your plate, before the carbs and protein, you avoid the worst of blood sugar spikes. So a bowl of pasta without anything else is very dangerous, diabetes-wise. This is something people usually find out when they're diagnosed. I'm telling you now so you can tweak your lifestyle just ever so slightly.

No wonder Americans are so fat. You don’t need three meals as one. Salad, pasta, then a protein seems like overkill for one spur of the moment lunch. That’s a three course meal.

There’s absolutely nothing wrong with pasta with butter or vodka sauce. Please note there is protein and fat in the butter and inside the cheese and heavy cream for the vodka sauce