Hi Aaron. The pasta is completely optional. You can add it towards the end of cooking time but it will soak up some of the liquid. Any will work. Now, if you know that you won’t eat all of the soup at once, it is best to cook the pasta separately and add them directly to your soup bowl, then pour over the soup. Any leftover cooked pasta is best to keep in a separate container in the fridge. Then the following day you can combine it together with soup and reheat it. Hope this helps.

Thanks so much for your feedback, Kathleen! I would say that it is entirely up to you whether you add spinach to the soup or not. Perhaps next time you make it, try adding it only to one serving to see if you like it and then you can decide. Hope this helps.

You are welcome!

Thanks for your feedback, Kathleen!