Weigh the thing, that's how they do it in restaurants. 2 ounces or roughly 60 grams of dry pasta per person if the pasta is a side for a main protein or dish. 100gr per serving if you like to eat a lot of pasta, or if the whole meal is only pasta mixed with something. 200 gr if you're eating nothing but pure pasta for that meal and want to feel full and hate yourself afterwards.

Just start body building. Then you can just make the entire box and be fine.

Seriously, though, eating 4-5000 calories a day of healthy food is awful.

100 grams per person. Easy. Whatever the equivalent is in freedom units.

There are simple runes to make the right amount of pasta.

I don't know them personally, and the people who tell me this also don't know them, but they exist, probably. .

Most pasta spoon/spatulas have a hole in them that is the size of 1 serving of uncooked spaghetti.

I juat make all of it and meal prep

I just cook 250g, or half a package, every time and that works fine. It's getting more complicated if I cook for more people than just me though.

People always judge me for it, since I'm skinny.

Oh, it doesn't look like enough. All add in some veggies to fill it out. Oh, still not enough. Maybe some tofu.

And then you have enough for 3 meals before you know it.

I usually do a whole 500g bag. Can't go that wrong, there will be enough.

One bag per person, why are people failing at this?

One handful per person, plus one

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TdMWIpwga3w

Pasta roughly doubles in size so just imagine twice as much as you cook.

I always get it right

When I was young I’d cook the whole 16 oz package and make way too much…

I’ve since learned that because the pasta absorbs a lot of water, a few oz of dry pasta actually makes way more than it looks like it will. For me, 5.33 oz of dry pasta (third of the bag) works perfect. You can do less though if you don’t need that much.

If I could eat always the same amount everything would be easier.

80 g per person, can't miss.

I just do 2 and a half handfuls since I don't buy the long ones

Always use less...people eat too much.

I'm actually really surprised this is a thing. I always get the same bags of pasta, so maybe that helps me measure them. It's always half or 2/3rds depending on the meal.