It was about 10 years ago that Carnival announced that a "starter portion" of the evening's pasta was available for guests who requested it. We hopped on board and now order like this: app, pasta, entrée, salad or soup after main course, dessert and coffee. We're in no rush so YTD works for us with the number of courses we prefer. We have dual citizenship and still order salad after the entrée because that's how we were raised.