• Guest - w'd love to know what you think about the forum! Take the 2025 Survey »

Type 1 Macaroni dry and cooked-help

alphabeta

alphabeta

Well-Known Member
Messages
615
Type of diabetes
Type 1
Treatment type
Insulin
Hello
I just made Macaroni and made a huge mistake apparently. I realize that dry and cooked macaroni have different carb values so i went to google the carb info in cooked macaroni and came out to be 42g carbs per 150g cooked macaroni. this works out to be 56 carbs in 200g cooked macaroni. I weighed exactly 200g on the scale of DRY macaroni and cooked them. i bolused 6 units for 200g DRY macaroni. should i have bolused for cooked pasta?
 
you may find that the calculation may be off slightly as there will be more than 200g of cooked pasta on your plate now......

you may be a bit short but not far off....
 
In my experience, almost all forms of pasta are roughly 75% CHO by weight. So for 100g dry pasta, you get 75g carbs. If you've weighed out 200g dry macaroni, that should be 150g carbs total. So if my I:C ratio is 1u:10g, I would bolus 15u. Does that help? What does the packet say? That would be more reliable than the internet...

Do double-check before taking more insulin, though.
 
Colin of Kent said:
In my experience, almost all forms of pasta are roughly 75% CHO by weight. So for 100g dry pasta, you get 75g carbs. If you've weighed out 200g dry macaroni, that should be 150g carbs total. So if my I:C ratio is 1u:10g, I would bolus 15u. Does that help? What does the packet say? That would be more reliable than the internet...

Do double-check before taking more insulin, though.
Click to expand...
Dry pasta is 70g per 100g on the packet but that is way more than the actualy grams of carbs in COOKED pasta. The packet gives nutrition facts for DRY pasta. That's why I referred to Google
 
novorapidboi26 said:
you may find that the calculation may be off slightly as there will be more than 200g of cooked pasta on your plate now......

you may be a bit short but not far off....
Click to expand...
How short? I'm stressing all over the place consumed by my thoughts with guilt! How could I have missed that tiny detail?! Oh Gosh...
 
its not a big deal....honestly......it certainly wont be the last time something like this happens.....;)....

my source states 200g of cooked macaroni is 62g of carbs......
 
Last edited:
Well, you weighed out 200g of pasta(dry), and the packaging says 70 carbs per 100g - so that 200g of dry pasta should be 140carbs - or was I misreading?

And don't worry, people do misread or mismeasure things and get things wrong, it does just happen.
 
alphabeta said:
Dry pasta is 70g per 100g on the packet but that is way more than the actualy grams of carbs in COOKED pasta. The packet gives nutrition facts for DRY pasta
Click to expand...

200g of dry uncooked pasta will contain 140g of carbs, if you then cook that amount and eat it you're still consuming 140g of carbs regardless of how much the cooked pasta weighed.
 
alphabeta said:
56g for me so basically yeah
Click to expand...

Do note the reply from both myself and @slip, there is a big difference between 200g of dry macaroni and 200g of cooked macaroni, I thought you said you had 200g of dry macaroni (before cooking), did both slip and I misread?
 
Rokaab said:
Do note the reply from both myself and @slip, there is a big difference between 200g of dry macaroni and 200g of cooked macaroni, I thought you said you had 200g of dry macaroni (before cooking), did both slip and I misread?
Click to expand...
I weighed 200g dry macaroni and cooked them. The new weight of cooked macaroni is ?? More than 200g but I bolused for exactly 200g cooked macaroni. I noticed from my BG that I was off but not too much. I can let that one slide this time.
 
Back
Top