to give toddler ds pasta for dinner every night?

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Ds is 15 months old and mostly really great at eating. He loves vegetables and fruit and he eats fish, meat, dairy products. He enjoys strong flavours, his favorite foods are olives and liver pate.

We struggle to get him to eat carbohydrates, he adores pasta but he doesn't much like bread, rice, potatoes.

We give him the same lunch we have, usually he eats the vegetables and protein but leaves the bread/rice or potatoes, at dinner we have been resorting to giving him pasta almost every night to fill him up so he doesn't wake in the night ( we have recently night weaned him) the pasta dishes are varied, bolognese, creamy salmon pasta, wild mushroom sauce, roast vegetables and pasta, lemon chicken pasta etc. The meals are all homemade and he is given salad/vegetables on the side which he usually finishes. He has fruit after dinner.

We started off doing this as short term solution to fill him up whilst sleep training him, his sleep is great now and I'm wondering if nutritionally people need a variety of different carbohydrate rich food.

Aibu to feed him pasta every night?

I just mix in olive oil and lemon juice to the pasta once it has finished cooking. We often have roast chicken for sunday lunch and I put lemons in the chicken whist it cooks so I mix in some left over chicken. I used to make lemon chicken risotto but changed it to pasta so ds would eat it, it works better with risotto.

It sounds nice. I'm thinking of a creamy lemony peppery sauce with chicken and pasta now!

Actually though you're right, I've made lemon chicken rice before which is lovely.

If you vary the accompaniments then fine, but keep giving him other stuff to try.

My SIL fed her eldest 2 DCs on pasta with a knob of butter on it, no sauces, no accompanying vegetables, very little other stuff in the diet for years DS1 still tends to be constipated aged 14

Amazingly she works as a cook in a pub!!!

His diet sounds amazing for a toddler...I really wouldn't worry. My DS lived on fish fingers, toast and yogurt for 2 years solid. His current favourite at 4 is pasta with garlic butter....hardly healthy in comparison.

I am very jealous of all the food your DS will eat.

Try gnocchi, ravioli etc. my DS is a total potato refuser apart from gnocchi.

Man, why won't my DS eat all that yummy stuff? He refuses to eat things on sight.

When you post stuff on here you get a lot of posh yummymummy types going ZOMG no white carbs. This is scientifically known as 'bollocks'. The body doesn't know the difference between bread, potato and pasta once it's a starchy mush in the intestine, so just give him what he will eat as long as he's getting some fruit or veg in somehow. Dd2 would only eat pasta or croissants- no bread, potato, etc for pretty much a whole year at that age, and also refused most proteins (lived off banana, scrambled egg, pasta with tomatoes and red pepper and yoghurt- she's still pretty bright in an irritatingly argumentative way and gets ill far less frequently than upper class quinoa stuffed wee darlings I have known).

If you are worried about it an easy thing would also to go to a gluten free section or health good shop a d find brown rice pasta or corn as a variant. Our 2 love the brown rice pasta and just make sure if you ever use it not to cook longer than it says as quickly goes soggy but it's delicious!

Yuck ! I truly hate pasta .
Think its the devils food - along with Jerusalem artichoke .

noodles are cool too

Have you tried making rice more interesting?

Add some food colouring to the water - pink/blue/green rice - looks much more appealing.

My youngest wouldn't eat rice until I made it blue...he ate it fine after that!

Tbh he eats very well and I wouldn't worry at all

Coloured rice !
I need to go to bed and read - I'm posting on loads of threads cos I have sat night boredom .
Off to find my hottie and book as I have nothing useful to add .