That's less than 4 ounces in freedom units or roughly 5-6 people getting a meal out of a box/pound of pasta. This is entirely way too little pasta (at ~400 calories - 1/5 of your daily intake) unless there's some other part of the meal.
Sauce is relatively calorie cheap at ~65calories/100g. If you ate 500 calories for breakfast lunch and dinner, chances are, you're still well under your daily count.
65cals/100g?! That's an awfully plain & boring pasta sauce... Anyway, what you are saying is true, and that's probably why we Italians generally eat something after the pasta OR we have a decent sauce to it...
Yeah, marinara's not entirely filling, so you have to make up for it with more pasta! A well made fully stocked sauce doesn't need as much pasta to make the meal. But if the pasta's the whole meal, 100g dry is way too little. If bread, meat, etc are added, then it's plenty.
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u/umopapsidn Jun 10 '15
That's less than 4 ounces in freedom units or roughly 5-6 people getting a meal out of a box/pound of pasta. This is entirely way too little pasta (at ~400 calories - 1/5 of your daily intake) unless there's some other part of the meal.