Pasta for dinner

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Anonymous wrote:Pasta once in a while is fine, but pasta daily for multiple meals creates fat kids and fatter adults... maybe there is some mitigation if they are in active sports, but that's just kicking the can... not having your kids learn to eat properly nutritious food at an early age is setting them up for "body positivity" as a 300lb+ adult... And even if you are already older and fat, why not set your kids up for a a healthier lifestyle ?

Italians eat pasta nearly every day.

Asians have rice with their dinners most days. They are thin for the most part. Rice is similar to pasta.

True. But Asians also tend to eat lots of protein, beans, produce along with the rice. South Asians usually also have lentils/beans, produce and meat with their rice. So, a balanced diet has carbs, protein, veggies, fat etc.

One single meal served at a playdate depicts how a person's entire life is? It was one meal. Eat it and move on. The hysteria on this thread is insane.

Well, OP decided to host, and it is "poor" fare for serving to guests. She is not living in a cardboard box under a bridge. ALSO, the guest did keep quite after her surprise and ate this slop.

You can eat whatever you want in your own house - plain pasta, rice with salt, dogfood - you just do not serve it to guests. That's all.

No hysteria. Just mocking the OP for eating like it is a crisis and we are living in a place that is being bombed by US. Yes, we are slightly mean on this anonymous thread.

What surprises me are the dysfunctional people on this thread who are doubling down and saying that this was a perfectly acceptable meal.

Well, if that is so, can OP go to the sidewalk and pluck some dandelion leaves and put it with the buttered pasta and make it "guest worthy" like Martha Steward did with her meals when she was in prison?

It is a GOOD thing!!!

Have fun dying alone someday!

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Anonymous wrote:Pasta once in a while is fine, but pasta daily for multiple meals creates fat kids and fatter adults... maybe there is some mitigation if they are in active sports, but that's just kicking the can... not having your kids learn to eat properly nutritious food at an early age is setting them up for "body positivity" as a 300lb+ adult... And even if you are already older and fat, why not set your kids up for a a healthier lifestyle ?

Italians eat pasta nearly every day.

Asians have rice with their dinners most days. They are thin for the most part. Rice is similar to pasta.

True. But Asians also tend to eat lots of protein, beans, produce along with the rice. South Asians usually also have lentils/beans, produce and meat with their rice. So, a balanced diet has carbs, protein, veggies, fat etc.

One single meal served at a playdate depicts how a person's entire life is? It was one meal. Eat it and move on. The hysteria on this thread is insane.

So it’s not a completely normal meal? It’s a rare unhealthy indulgence?

It is a completely normal meal to me, also raised Italian, and does not mean whatsoever that the OP does not eat protein, vegetables, fruit, or a balanced diet.

The only conclusion I draw from your comment is you are oddly judgmental and I would not like you personally.

So, in your conclusion, you assumed that she has good food in her house but decided to serve her guests the garbage and save the good stuff which would surely be a balanced diet, for later? Must be an Italian thing to be so stingy and inhospitable.

We know OP has good food because she served it.

Then why are people bending over backwards to say they eat vegetable, fruit, protein, and actually do have a balanced diet? Because they know this is a shit meal. No “real” Italian would be proud of this slop.

+1 it’s a sh$t meal that my husband, who can’t cook, would serve if he absolutely had to be in charge of dinner becuase it’s easy. Boxed pasta and jarred sauce is one of the laziest, most disgusting meals and I can’t stand it. My kids have never eaten just noodles with butter and they are 16 and 13. I have been to someone’s house who literally would serve that to kids though. I found it bizarre and didn’t say anything.

Your kids hate you and they don’t say anything.

[Anonymous]

Sometimes I stand in front of the fridge and eat pepperoni and cheese for lunch. No plate, just straight out of the package with the fridge door open. Oh and I serve it to my kids too!

Shun me, DCUM! Let me have your wrath!

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Sometimes I stand in front of the fridge and eat pepperoni and cheese for lunch. No plate, just straight out of the package with the fridge door open. Oh and I serve it to my kids too!

Shun me, DCUM! Let me have your wrath!

Quiet, piggy!

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Anonymous wrote:Sometimes I stand in front of the fridge and eat pepperoni and cheese for lunch. No plate, just straight out of the package with the fridge door open. Oh and I serve it to my kids too!

Shun me, DCUM! Let me have your wrath!

Quiet, piggy!

And there it is.

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I could definitely eat pasta for lunch every day. Go fly a kite, haters!

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Anonymous wrote:Pasta once in a while is fine, but pasta daily for multiple meals creates fat kids and fatter adults... maybe there is some mitigation if they are in active sports, but that's just kicking the can... not having your kids learn to eat properly nutritious food at an early age is setting them up for "body positivity" as a 300lb+ adult... And even if you are already older and fat, why not set your kids up for a a healthier lifestyle ?

Italians eat pasta nearly every day.

Asians have rice with their dinners most days. They are thin for the most part. Rice is similar to pasta.

True. But Asians also tend to eat lots of protein, beans, produce along with the rice. South Asians usually also have lentils/beans, produce and meat with their rice. So, a balanced diet has carbs, protein, veggies, fat etc.

One single meal served at a playdate depicts how a person's entire life is? It was one meal. Eat it and move on. The hysteria on this thread is insane.

So it’s not a completely normal meal? It’s a rare unhealthy indulgence?

It is a completely normal meal to me, also raised Italian, and does not mean whatsoever that the OP does not eat protein, vegetables, fruit, or a balanced diet.

The only conclusion I draw from your comment is you are oddly judgmental and I would not like you personally.

So, in your conclusion, you assumed that she has good food in her house but decided to serve her guests the garbage and save the good stuff which would surely be a balanced diet, for later? Must be an Italian thing to be so stingy and inhospitable.

We know OP has good food because she served it.

Then why are people bending over backwards to say they eat vegetable, fruit, protein, and actually do have a balanced diet? Because they know this is a shit meal. No “real” Italian would be proud of this slop.

None of those are "good" or "bad," you'd also be unbalanced if you ate only fruit, but it would be fine to do that for breakfast. People are saying this because posters are being ridiculous acting like if you had a croissant for breakfast that means you never eat protein.

Posters are bending over backwards to say what a great meal this is and they would be honored to be served it. Obviously that’s a lie.

It was only to feed some kids before they played, calm down. And that reminds me I get chicken, ziti and pasta from an Italian restaurant near us a few times a month. No sauce, no garlic, no oil. I add some shredded cheddar cheese to make it a little moist.

Growing up we had no foods with preservatives. We had, for example, whole chickens, broiled hamburger, or steak, fish, baked potatoes, corn on the cob, beans, pasta and my mother made me pasta with butter. No sauces, I’ve never tried mayonnaise or most other condiments. I never learned to cook beyond that so I still eat the same things. I guess people would be horrified to eat at my house.

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Anonymous wrote:Sometimes I stand in front of the fridge and eat pepperoni and cheese for lunch. No plate, just straight out of the package with the fridge door open. Oh and I serve it to my kids too!

Shun me, DCUM! Let me have your wrath!

You sound like my husband but he eats it in front of the sink.

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Anonymous wrote:Pasta once in a while is fine, but pasta daily for multiple meals creates fat kids and fatter adults... maybe there is some mitigation if they are in active sports, but that's just kicking the can... not having your kids learn to eat properly nutritious food at an early age is setting them up for "body positivity" as a 300lb+ adult... And even if you are already older and fat, why not set your kids up for a a healthier lifestyle ?

Italians eat pasta nearly every day.

Asians have rice with their dinners most days. They are thin for the most part. Rice is similar to pasta.

True. But Asians also tend to eat lots of protein, beans, produce along with the rice. South Asians usually also have lentils/beans, produce and meat with their rice. So, a balanced diet has carbs, protein, veggies, fat etc.

One single meal served at a playdate depicts how a person's entire life is? It was one meal. Eat it and move on. The hysteria on this thread is insane.

So it’s not a completely normal meal? It’s a rare unhealthy indulgence?

It is a completely normal meal to me, also raised Italian, and does not mean whatsoever that the OP does not eat protein, vegetables, fruit, or a balanced diet.

The only conclusion I draw from your comment is you are oddly judgmental and I would not like you personally.

So, in your conclusion, you assumed that she has good food in her house but decided to serve her guests the garbage and save the good stuff which would surely be a balanced diet, for later? Must be an Italian thing to be so stingy and inhospitable.

We know OP has good food because she served it.

Then why are people bending over backwards to say they eat vegetable, fruit, protein, and actually do have a balanced diet? Because they know this is a shit meal. No “real” Italian would be proud of this slop.

None of those are "good" or "bad," you'd also be unbalanced if you ate only fruit, but it would be fine to do that for breakfast. People are saying this because posters are being ridiculous acting like if you had a croissant for breakfast that means you never eat protein.

Posters are bending over backwards to say what a great meal this is and they would be honored to be served it. Obviously that’s a lie.

It was only to feed some kids before they played, calm down. And that reminds me I get chicken, ziti and pasta from an Italian restaurant near us a few times a month. No sauce, no garlic, no oil. I add some shredded cheddar cheese to make it a little moist.

Growing up we had no foods with preservatives. We had, for example, whole chickens, broiled hamburger, or steak, fish, baked potatoes, corn on the cob, beans, pasta and my mother made me pasta with butter. No sauces, I’ve never tried mayonnaise or most other condiments. I never learned to cook beyond that so I still eat the same things. I guess people would be horrified to eat at my house.

What a bizarre post.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:Sometimes I stand in front of the fridge and eat pepperoni and cheese for lunch. No plate, just straight out of the package with the fridge door open. Oh and I serve it to my kids too!

Shun me, DCUM! Let me have your wrath!

Quiet, piggy!

[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.

Maybe next time she can host and whip up a meal she thinks is “lunch” after spending the entire morning outside of the house.
Don’t worry about it. Every American household has pasta at least once a week and little kids eat pasta pretty much every other day.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Sometimes I stand in front of the fridge and eat pepperoni and cheese for lunch. No plate, just straight out of the package with the fridge door open. Oh and I serve it to my kids too!

Shun me, DCUM! Let me have your wrath!

Sometimes I just eat some beans with cheese for lunch. My kid loved plain beans when he was a toddler.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Sometimes I stand in front of the fridge and eat pepperoni and cheese for lunch. No plate, just straight out of the package with the fridge door open. Oh and I serve it to my kids too!

Shun me, DCUM! Let me have your wrath!

Sometimes I just eat some beans with cheese for lunch. My kid loved plain beans when he was a toddler.

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[Anonymous]

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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.

Maybe next time she can host and whip up a meal she thinks is “lunch” after spending the entire morning outside of the house.
Don’t worry about it. Every American household has pasta at least once a week and little kids eat pasta pretty much every other day.

One of my kids hates pasta and never eats it.

[Anonymous]

How is what she served any different from serving Mac and cheese, or PB&J, or any of a dozen other kid-friendly, easy to prepare meals that someone is likely to have the ingredients for on a last minute basis?

Who goes to someone's house after running into them at the park and expects a freshly prepared, multi-course meal?