'Fortified' Pasta favorites?
I'm a big big fan of the pasta. Me loves pasta. I especially love the Contadina sort that you have to refrigerate because it's fresh.:drool: However, I was looking in the dry pasta aisle and there's so many new sorts-wholewheat, made with flax, fortified with vitamins & protein. I've had the wholewheat-it's sort of heavy and chewy, but the call of health is strong, so:
What's your tasty, healthy pasta brand? I want something I don't have to hide the taste of, that won't sit in my belly for centuries...
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I like those round concave (or convex, depending what side you're looking from) Italian fancy pasta thingies. Lots of different brands. Usually cost 2-3x the cost of regular pasta, BUT WORTH IT. They really hold sauce amazingly well.
If you look for them, you'll find them in fancy food stores. They tend to look irregular and semi home-made. Highly recommended. Makes a pasta meal a luxury item :-).
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I recently discovered this whole-wheat penne with flax at Trader Joe's. Tons of whole grain and protein, PLUS yummy pasta goodness? I'm so totally in. But then, I'm one of the few who actually loves whole-wheat pasta and prefers it to the white stuff. I like the chewiness!
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My fav whole wheat brand comes from super target, it's Archer Farms. It's not quite as chewy, and tastes more like white pasta does. Mmmm...
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I'm a Dreamfield's freak. It's basically regular pasta with an extra protein bound in there somehow, that doesn't allow it to turn to glucose in your system...a hypoglycemic's dream!
There are some that say it doesn't work or that it's a myth, but all I know is that it doesn't cause me to crash like regular pasta and it (beware TMI) slides right out of me the next morning causing no weight gain.
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I wish I could stomach whole-wheat pasta. I've tried the Trader Joe's brand and it just tastes like coiled sand paper to me. I just buy the organic stuff from TJs and make my portions smaller, which is better than a giant plate of the good for you nasty tasting stuff.
I'm totally going to have to try that Dreamfield's stuff. Carbs are my enemy.