Whole Wheat Pasta
 

Hi Everyone!

I decided to make some whole wheat pasta with mixed veggies for dinner and measured out exactly 57g on my food scale. When I went to enter it into my ETools there was a list that came up and I'm puzzled. For 57g of uncooked pasta there is a p+ value of 5 but for 1 cup of cooked pasta it's 4. I'm not sure what to count it as, 4 or 5?

I have never seen the ETools, but when there may be a discrepency in points, i will suck it up and take the higher number just incase, then it is covered. I love whole wheat pasta, but ive come to discover that most are higher points than regular white pasta. I am not sure why lol.

Maybe its showing as 4pp cooked cause it loses some starch or something while cooking? no idea. Id count it as 5 though just so i was sure it was enough.

I would count it as 5 too, just to be on the safe side. It's always better to err on the side of caution ;)

I personally always go with the "before", but that's because I measure everything before I cook it.

Meat... measured raw. Pasta....measured before cooking. It's just how I keep consistent mentally.

57 grams of pasta may be more than 1 cup when cooked, depending on how long you cook it and the size of the pasta. I always go by uncooked weight.

Lovely, what about if you're cooking pasta for 8? Would you measure and boil a single portion separate from the rest? I've been boiling the entire amt for the family, then measuring out a 1/2 cup of boiled noodles for myself. I'd like a more accurate method, boiling separate seems like it would be a pain, but I guess it would make more sense?

I love wheat pasta, please let me know too.

I only cook for me and my husband. So I actually measure out two servings, cook them together, then just split them up evenly after cooking via my eyeballs. (lol Not cooking with my eyeballs, but I eyeball the splitting of the two servings.) Sometimes I get a little more, sometimes I get a little less, but it's never so far off as to delay my weight loss. It works out in the end.

Now, personally, if I were cooking for eight people, I'd measure after. There's more room for error if I were trying to eyeball out 8 equal servings, and it would fit my lifestyle better to measure out after it's cooked.

All that matters to me (again personally) is consistency, so if I had to change my method so that it better fit my lifestyle (ie cooking for 8 people instead of 2), then I would change it to measuring after! No problems there :)

Thanks so much for the replies! I'll just go with 5pts to be on the safe side =D

You could try making one serving by itself and weigh/measure the cooked amount. Then you can cook for all 8 at once in the future and know exactly how much cooked pasta to put on your plate. This would be assuming that you use the same type of pasta each time of course but I'm sure there will be repeats!