I happen to like whole wheat pasta just fine, and from what I gather it’s definitely healthier, but I can understand being turned off by the texture. But when you talked about flavor, you lost me. Pasta has flavor? I thought that was the sauce’s job. The pasta’s job is as a delivery system for the sauce.
I like yogurt, but I’ve never quite trusted it, and I find Greek yogurt even more suspicious, looking all congealed as it does, like what you would get if you left a bowl of milk sitting out for a couple of weeks. And no one’s ever been able to explain to me what Greek yogurt is—what makes it Greek, what’s different about it—except that doesn’t “Greek” mean “anal”? So I’ve never been able to give it a fair trial.