pasta

[sugarfreerach]

Ok since becoming pregnant I've found that my body can eat pasta and rice again without the highs for hours afterwards yay! Anyway so last night i fancied some pasta (dried) and some sauce.

So I look up the carb content in the collins gem book thing and it said 18g of carb per 100g. I thought that seemed awfully low. Means i'd only need 3.6 units of insulin for 200g. So I looked on the packet of the pasta and it says 36g of carb per 100g. Talk about a huge difference! I double checked the book and it def says cooked pasta, as does the packet. It was penne pasta dried.

Anyway i erred on the side of caution and used the packet measurements and lo and behold I was under 6 all night.

I can't believe it can be so off. In the book it says, Dried pasta, any type, per 100g. Don't feel I can trust this book now.

 

[Vicsetter]

The only thing I can think is that it does say cooked weight. The Calorie Bible lists dried pasta as 72.8% carb, don't know what it weighs cooked, probably a lot more. Make your own it's dead easy and is really tasty , it's only eggs and flour so you can work out the carbs easily.

 

[sugarfreerach]

They were both cooked weight, I checked! Stupid book.

 

[novorapidboi26]

My opinion when counting carbs is to use the packaging, always, the books that are out now are good for eating out but its always a guess when your out anyway, if your in the house you can work out the exact amount.....🙂