Help measuring pasta at college

My school has a really helpful website that lists the nutritional information for the food that they serve at the dining hall. However, I'm confused about the information they have up for the pasta. For example, here is the nutritional info that my school has for Barilla Plus penne pasta: Barilla Plus Penne Pasta
And here is the entry at CC: Calories in Plus, Penne

So I have two questions...

1) Which listing is right??

2) I can't visualize ounces or grams, but I know how much a cup is... how many grams would equal one cup of this pasta?

Well, thanks, but I have to eat at the dining hall. I only have a few choices and this is one of them. Anyone else?

Use the numbers in CC.  I'm pretty sure you will have the option of putting the amount in cups, not just grams.  If that doesn't work for you, write again.  My son eats this all the time and I can weigh a cup for you.

Yeah, it only says 1/8 of a box and I have no idea how much that is - it's that or measure in grams. So I'm really not sure...

The CC listing is for 2 oz dry, which is a cup = 200 cals.

Your dining hall's listing is for 4 oz, which is half a cup = about 100 cals.

So they're both right! :)

Barilla Plus is great by the way - they use a lot of legume flours in the ingredients, so the protein and fiber are pretty high. My dining hall just serves your regular white-flour/bleached-enriched-wheat pasta. ):

Everyone else pretty much answered you, but is there any way you could buy a little food scale or something? I got one last month at walmart for like... $10 and it's SO helpful. It measures in grams and ounces, and it's really accurate. I measure everything now :) It's especially helpful (although a tiny bit inconvenient, haha) when I go out to eat, so it'd probably be helpful in your case. 

Okay - so I just cooked a box of this stuff.  The box contains 14.5 oz dry, this made 8 cups cooked, and weighed 2 lbs (32 oz).  Hope this helps a bit.

Thanks everyone for your help! I'm a little confused now, though... Stronger - your post made a lot of sense, but based on the information that momtocam gave me, if I calculated correctly 1 cup should = 4 oz. Because if the total pasta in the box was 32 oz and 8 cups, 32/8 = 4 oz. But Stronger said that 4 oz = only half a cup...

Hi there;

I think your confusion may be based on the fact that ounces can be either fluid oz or weight oz. Momtocam said that the boxed cooked was 2 lbs in weight. Stronger's 4 oz seemed like is was fluid oz (4 oz = 1/2 cup). Hope that clarifies.

Okay, that makes sense. Thank you! Yeah, measuring by weight always really confuses me - it's so complicated!

So basically -- one cup = 200 calories. Right?

wow all the posts here are really helpful ><

i'm having the same trouble with measuring portion sizes in dining halls, cuz there's alwyas fluctuations on how much they serve you! does anyone have any tips on how to eye measurements?

btw patricia which school are you going to? The nutritional info page looks oddly like the UCLA nutrition page for their dorm food..

most likely, your school has a value for cooked pasta and CC has for uncooked. There is the difference.

Wow, sorry for the extremely late response! I go to UMass Amherst -- they must use the same program as UCLA.