Nice so ... let this be constructive for both ends ... Yeah we eat pasta really often like really often most of us at least once a day if not twice but we make it like 200 times more healthy than (as I heard) u probably did for instance we don't use ketchup on the pasta we use tomato sauce and there's so much difference it scientifically proved one Italian out of two will have a stroke discovering how you do it ... 😉 We usually eat around 80grams (yeah yeah go have fun doing the conversion ) of pasta plus some meat and veggies... And that's brings me straight to the point how the heck can u fill a dinner without some kind of pasta ... What did u eat? Meat and meat ? 🤷 About your second question I will skip it u probably don't really care and I will talk for like ages about stuff I somehow know because it's instinctive that objectively aren't so obvious... Aaaaand no lasagna would probably still be considered a pasta disch yes it has some meet but it doesn't metter ... Spaghetti con le polpettine (meatball spaghetti) also have meat but they remain pasta plus somewhere in remote regions of Italy we call the lasagna pasta al forno witch means oven baked pasta