can't eat a lot of pasta

[rosie1]

one meal l used to enjoy was tuna pasta, (my own reipe)but now l feel l cant finsh my meal lm finding the bolognese sauce to tomatie & the pasta too much

 

[LeeLee]

Pasta is likely to send your blood sugar high so tiny portions are better, with lots of veg to fill the plate.

 

[Copepod]

How do you manage if you make a smaller portion of pasta than you used to eat with some sauce, perhaps less tomato if that tastes too sweet / tomatoey. I've found a small portion of fresh or dried pasta, with pesto sauce stirred in, plus a few flakes of tuna, makes a nice meal, with rest of plate filled with, for example, steamed spinach or cabbage leaves or boiled / steamed carrot sticks or salad.

 

[markaj]

No longer eat pasta potatoes rice or bread and its not until you stop eating these do you realize how lethargic they made you feel.

Mark

 

[rosie1]

mark l was told by a diettrcen that it is bad for us to cut out all pot & pasta as l was told the brain needs sugar, sorry for spelling

 

[LeeLee]

The dietician is telling you the old way of thinking. If you don't eat many carbs, the body will convert protein and fat into glucose to feed your brain and other cells. Most of my meals have NO potato/pasta/rice/bread and I'm healthier than I've ever been. Here are some examples:

With bolognese sauce, I have shredded white cabbage.
On shepherds pie, I use mashed cauliflower.
With stews/casseroles, I have carrots, green beans, butternut squash, etc.
With homemade curry, I blitz raw cauliflower in the food processor and then stir-fry it to make cauli rice.
Weekend breakfast is scrambled egg, lean bacon, sausage, mushrooms, tinned tomatoes (no toast or hash browns).

With a roast dinner, I do have a little bit of spud - but I roast 2-3 NEW potatoes in their skins.

 

[Mark T]

Your dietician possibly hasn't kept up with the latest research.

But, you are not eating all the time - where does your brain get its glucose from in the middle of the night?

The answer is that your liver acts as a glucose store and releases them to the body. The liver also performs the job of converting fat (or protien) to glucose - which is why its quite possible to go very low carb.

 

[rosie1]

dont know mark, she was working at a hospitol shouldnt she be up with the latest research ??

 

[yorksman]

It may be the sauce that you have gone off. A proper ragu alla bolognese doesn't have much more than a hint of tomato sweetness. It is primarily a meat sauce made from quite a cheap cut, skirt steak. I have it with a 40g serving of wholewheat penne, which has a GI of around 40. I like it al dente which slows digestion down even more. Try this Ragu alla Bolognese recipe.

I have also found pasta with fennel and sardines or with spicy tomato, chilli and king prawns very good too.

If you have gone off the pasta, try some Blue Dragon Wholewheat noodles. They are low GI and you don't need much.

 

[AlisonM]

Reducing carbs is often not what the medics advise, but it works for many of us. I find now, if I have a carb heavy meal (potatoes, rice, pasta or bread) I feel heavy and bloated.

It's really uncomfortable and I find I can't finish it. I tend to bulk meals out with veg these days instead of the carbs. I do still have some pasta or rice sometimes, or a little bread, but not nearly as much as I used to. I feel much better without it.