Where to buy dried pasta shapes for children

[Welly]

Can anyone help? I used to buy dried alphabet pasta shapes from Tesco's but they have stopped selling them. Has anyone seen anything similar whether alphabet or shapes?

Thanks.

Welly

[chicken.babe]

Asda used to do them,not sure if they still do!

[Lois Lane]

Waitrose used to do peter rabbit shaped ones - not sure if they still do???

[Chocolate Lips]

Tesco do the Peter Rabbit shapes, as do larger branches of Boots. I just bought some small pasta but for the life of me I can't think what it is called. Farfellini?

[Diddlum]

Sainsbury's do conchigliette which is tiny shells. Those Peter Rabbit ones are organic and quite expensive IMO.

[Chocolate Lips]

Sainsbury's do conchigliette which is tiny shells. Those Peter Rabbit ones are organic and quite expensive IMO.

They are very expensive compared to just bog standard pasta

[Cherrypie]

Boots do dried pasta shapes for kids.

[scatterbrain]

i used to just buy the little pasta shells, i think it's sold for soup.

Scatterbrain

[*kate*]

Boots do them. But like scatter says you can buy the soup pasta, might be called macchiate (or I might have made that name up!) will check my pasta book!

eta - I DID make the name up :laff: you can get sop pasta called stellate, rotellini, conchigliette, but the best one has to be little snails - lumachine!

Try an italian deli?

[Welly]

Thanks for all your replies. I'm going to hunt them down today!

[Pancake01]

I get the little stars (Stellate) for Maisie from our local deli.

[Princess Fiona]

I also used to buy the tiny pasta shells from tesco, never bothered with special BABY pasta, was too expensive. She has ordinary sized pasta now.

[Franny]

Waitrose still do the Peter Rabbit ones but they are special baby ones which aren't necessary for babies over 6 mths, I don't think. Waitrose also do wheels which are called Rotelline, which is normal pasta. I also find the tubes (penne) go down well with R.

[Welly]

Thanks again for your help. I went to Waitrose and saw the Peter Rabbit pasta but refused to pay £1.49 for a tiny bag! Sorry if I sound tight. I'll try & get hold of the stars if I can. The joys of being a parent of a fussy eater! He won't eat twirls or shells - arghhhhhhhhhhh!

[Chocolate Lips]

I don't know about anyone else but I really struggle to find small pasta in any shape! Just been to Asda today and they didn't have any, neither did Sainsburys :scratchchin:

[Welly]

Snap. I think Tesco's have small twists & shells. Good luck.

[Goldfish]

I want to find some baby pasta too.

Organix used to do baby alphabet pasta shapes which were great but they discontinued it.

I got the Conchigliette from Sainsbury's but it is much too big to give Connie at the moment so I have to pulse it down.

[Dazed & Confused]

I'm also having the pasta problem, I picked up some small shells from Asda at the weekend but they're still to big really. Will try and blend them downa bit though.

GOing to try C with some tonight, last time I tried I didn't have much luck!

[seashell]

Just thought i would mention in case anyone didnt know, Annabel Karmel has brought out a range of pasta and other stuff, I saw it in Boots the other day!

I bought very tiny pasta from there which is suitable from 7 months.

There is also icecube trays for food, measuring spoons and stuff (wish she had brought all this out sooner!:lol: )

[Diddlum]

You could always just bash the pasta up before you cook it!

I bet the AK range is expensive?

[seashell]

Diddlum, I dont think its too bad, 70p I think it was for the pasta - the ice cube trays and other bits are reasonable priced I thought.

[Welly]

Just thought I would update you on the pasta front. I went to Tesco's again today and they have introduced a range of pasta for children. The shapes are animals and aren't too expensive 59p for 500g. I bought 3 bags! :ellie:

[Diddlum]

Oooh good, I bet they haven't got them in our local Tesco though!:sigh:

[Chocolate Lips]

Thats fab news, my Tesco is crap though and probably won't have them.

[Dazed & Confused]

Thought I would just post to say Callum ate his pasta :ellie:

I was surprised as the pieces were still pretty big and he did spit some of it out but overall he eat quite a lot it. I like the idea of bashing the pasta up before cooking, might try that and see what happens:scratchchin:

[Welly]

Yay for Callum. It is a strange texture - must be weird for little ones.