The Curse of the 12-Ounce-Pasta Recipe

[chowmama]

5. I used to serve larger portions

But I've taken to measuring out 6 ounces of pasta per meal. That gives us 3 servings - 1 each for dinner and 1 left over for my breakfast. I try to have salad or something on the side.

And since the Great Mouse Pantry Invasion of a couple years ago, I no longer store pasta in the original boxes at all. They got chewed right through and the dry pasta was well nibbled. Goodwill supplied me with enough tall glass jars to hold spaghetti and fettucine, and the smaller pasta just goes into half gallon canning jars. Some little bugger gets into my pantry again, they're gonna starve.

As another plus, it's been a couple of years without having to suddenly discover that we are not, in fact, having pasta for supper, even though the water's already boiling.