How Much Do You Need?

Wow.........1/2 cup pasta is a serving?!  I always thought 1 cup with 1/2 cup sauce was a serving.  Oh boy, I'm going to have to make salad even more than I make it now or a lot more vegetables in general.  I actually cannot see hubby eating 1/2 cup pasta.............yikes!  Happy Cooking!


The general rule

Shapes may vary in size according to the manufacturer, so use these measurements 
as generalizations. One serving size of pasta is just 1/2 cup of cooked pasta.

8 ounces of uncooked small to medium pasta shapes = 4 cups cooked

Examples:

Elbow macaroni
Medium shells
Rotini
Wagon wheels
Bow-tie pasta (Farfalle)
Mostaccioli
Penne
Ziti
Radiatore
Rigatoni

8 ounces of uncooked long pasta shapes = 1 1/2-inch diameter bunch = 4 cups cooked

Examples:

Spaghetti,
Angel hair
Linguine
Vermicelli
Fettuccine

8 ounces of uncooked egg noodles = 2 1/2 cups cooked

The Food Guide Pyramid defines 1/2 cup cooked pasta as one serving. If you compare 
your hand to a plate of cooked pasta with sauce, you'll find that you're probably eating 
two cups of pasta, which means you're getting three to four servings of low-fat, high 
carbohydrate pasta in a single meal, at least half the recommended daily amount of 
grain foods.

A quarter = two ounces dry spaghetti

Two ounces of dry long pasta bunched up in your hand, such as spaghetti, thin spaghetti, 
linguine or vermicelli, is about the same size as the diameter of a quarter. Two ounces 
of dry pasta yields about 1 cup of cooked pasta (two servings).

Later,

sandy