Whole Wheat Pasta .. Anyone Use It?

[TaDa!]

I successfuly switched over to whole wheat pasta for my family - they really like it, which makes me very happy! as I feel I can serve pasta more often to them. I try to serve 90% healthy food and they do eat brown rice, multigrain bread, etc along with their occasional potatoes, and other carby not-very-nutritional stuff, lol!

I haven't brought myself yet to eat any of those things .. the rice and bread do not tempt me in the least, but I may try to add in the ww pasta (a la carb ladder) and was wondering whether anyone else eats this regularly, or tried it, etc.

TIA!!!

Pauline

[vli1127]

I have used Dreamfield's pasta. But read on Dana Carpender's Blog that she tested her own blood sugars before and after Dreamfield consumption and found her blood sugar spiked quite high which is opposite of what the box says. My dad, who is diabetic also had a huge spike in blood sugars after eating this pasta. I haven't investigated the difference between whole wheat pasta versus Dreamfields though.

[shapeup1]

Its a few years that I have switched to WW pasta, there are some really decent ones. I'm allowed to have it twice a week, I'm careful with it, I have a cup ..cup and a half...(crack weightloss)

[TaDa!]

Thanks everyone!

penny1022 .. I have to say I was pleasantly surprised to find that my family did not flip out over being fed whole wheat pasta, lol!! I guess it makes sense as I give them real whole wheat bread and brown rice already that they'd have acquired the taste for whole foods luckily!

vli1127 .. I decided not to even consider doing Dreamfields since it's more expensive and I want to move toward making more foods that the whole family will eat at a meal, rather than have me eating differently. The other thing I don't like about the dreamfields is that you can't really use it in a casserole and expect it to still be lowcarb as it must be eaten right after cooking for that to work apparently.

shapeup1 .. are you on a particular plan that "allows" you the twice a week on Maintenance or is it just something you've devised that's working for you? A cup and a half sounds perfect to me - like a regular bowl of it (I make the corkscrews or the ziti-style)

When I make it for my family, I cook it a really long time so the noodles get quite big - I do this so that the texture is less whole-wheaty, lol! So I imagine, as an added bonus, it would also make for less pasta to "feel" like more pasta.

[vli1127]

TaDa, what do you mean "you can't really use it in a casserole and expect it to still be lowcarb as it must be eaten right after cooking for that to work apparently." I used it in casseroles and my family ate it too. I didn't make a separate item just for me using this pasta.

[Chef]

Originally Posted by TaDa!

I successfuly switched over to whole wheat pasta for my family - they really like it, which makes me very happy! as I feel I can serve pasta more often to them. I try to serve 90% healthy food and they do eat brown rice, multigrain bread, etc along with their occasional potatoes, and other carby not-very-nutritional stuff, lol!

I haven't brought myself yet to eat any of those things .. the rice and bread do not tempt me in the least, but I may try to add in the ww pasta (a la carb ladder) and was wondering whether anyone else eats this regularly, or tried it, etc.

TIA!!!

Pauline

Hi TaDa,

I have had WW Pasta for some time I love it. Others don't like it.

I read some posts about sugar spikes. I switched off even WW Pasta for awhile because I was hungry after eating like I am with alot of foods. But, yes, I do eat and enjoy WW Pasta.

Jim

[TaDa!]

Chef Glad to hear it's working ok for you

Originally Posted by vli1127

TaDa, what do you mean "you can't really use it in a casserole and expect it to still be lowcarb as it must be eaten right after cooking for that to work apparently." I used it in casseroles and my family ate it too. I didn't make a separate item just for me using this pasta.

My understanding is that the resistant starch they use in the dreamfields becomes digestible if used as leftovers .. i.e. it is carbier than the 5 gm indicated, if say you eat it the day after you made it. If you do a search on dreamfields, there are many posts where people talk about this ... whether it's true or not, I don't know .. lol! not as if there'd be leftovers of pasta in my house, lol!

Dreamfields tastes great and is probably an awesome option for me, but I want to see if I can make a go of the ww pasta

[shapeup1]

Originally Posted by TaDa!

Thanks everyone!

shapeup1 .. are you on a particular plan that "allows" you the twice a week on Maintenance or is it just something you've devised that's working for you? A cup and a half sounds perfect to me - like a regular bowl of it (I make the corkscrews or the ziti-style)

When I make it for my family, I cook it a really long time so the noodles get quite big - I do this so that the texture is less whole-wheaty, lol! So I imagine, as an added bonus, it would also make for less pasta to "feel" like more pasta.

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[TaDa!]

Interesting Shapeup - Thanks for the info! I am looking at incorporating this as part of maintenance .. .. and I'd probably also be having the ww pasta only a couple of times a week.

Anyone else eat ww pasta as part of maintenance ...?