I always put something on it so it's not just the carb. I will toss it with shredded cheese, or a little pasta sauce, or parm, etc When we first started and Ophelia didn't have a good pincer I would use spiral pasta. Now that she can pick up the tiniest things I use whatever I'm making. She likes bowtie :-)
When we go out to restaurants, I often just feed her what I'm eating unless either 1) I can't figure out most of what's in it or 2) it's a high-allergy possibility food. So yeah, she's gotten cheese tortellini with meat sauce, fettuccine noodles with meat sauce, and just yesterday some sort of Stouffer's chicken and broccoli pasta. She likes it all!
Re: Giving Pasta to your LO
I just gave him plain whole wheat pasta. He isnt good at picking stuff up yet and I was afraid to add some kind of slippery sauce to it!
He did have cantaloupe on the side.
what a combo eh? 