Bad luck with organic whole wheat pasta

smilingjb

I tried to safeway organic brand of spaghetti and i didn't like it.  I was trying to be healthy, but the texture was weird.

Tambcat

Have you had other WW pasta? The texture does take some getting used to, but I've been eating it for years and don't notice now. 

jehan

I bought some at Trader Joe's that was actually pretty good, or at least it worked for me.  Better than my one or two other experiences with WW pasta, anyway!

CDMay2006

I thought i hated whole wheat pasta, but them someone asked whether i was following the cooking times precisely; doing so helped a lot.  The texture is still different than regular pasta, but it's not bad.

JeniLovesNeil

Whole Foods brand WW pasta is awesome.  DH and I have been eating it and love it.  And we have hated any other WW brands we tried.

hollyfp

Try bionaturae.  It's the only kind I buy, it's really good!  We don't even eat the "regular" anymore; their whole wheat is so good we have switched to that completely.  

jpeazybreezy

Whole wheat everything tastes and feels different from refined, processed, nutrition free white grains. IMO, ww was chewier and a little grainy tasting the first time I had it, but it wasn't enough to persuade me to go back to refined stuff. The next time we had it, there was nothing I could find different with it, and now, I actually perfer it! Whole grains are an easy, cheap way to improve your nutrition, you should give it another try!

And as pp said, you should cook it to the specs on the box, any type of inccorectly cooked pasta is a disaster!

kelbrian

hollyfp:

Try bionaturae.  It's the only kind I buy, it's really good!  We don't even eat the "regular" anymore; their whole wheat is so good we have switched to that completely.  

We love this brand as well.

 

Pescalita

I love TJ's, and it's cheap.

belovedbride07

I'll have to try some of the brands mentioned here.  DH and I tried WW pasta, and it was a total failure.  The first time, we were like, "Okay, this is different...we'll get used to it."  When it tasted just as terrible the second and third times, we gave up and went back to our white pasta.  I suspected it might have been the brand, but last time was so awful that we haven't forced ourselves to try it again.

Now if someone can make some brown rice recommendations, we'll be set!

uncannycanuck

belovedbride07:

Now if someone can make some brown rice recommendations, we'll be set!

Try as I might, I can't get into eating brown rice.

My compromise is to do half brown and half white. Because of the cooking time differences, I give the brown a 20 minute (after the boil starts) head start, then add the white. Much more edible than plain brown rice.

I keep meaning to try some short grain brown rice, but I haven't wanted to add a 5th or 6th kind of rice to the pantry.

Tambcat

Brown basmati is the best!

CutesBoots

I've tried some brown rice pasta before.  It has a lighter texture than WW.

I don't like the taste of brown rice in rice form.  For healthier rice opti, I prefer wild rice.

Alisha_A

I don't care for whole wheat pasta (although I will try the WF and bionature brands) OR brown rice. Phooey! I don't eat much of either (pasta or rice). Pasta very rarely, and rice just with sushi or thai!

CutesBoots

that reminds me, I really, really don't like brown rice sushi