pasta obsessed toddler

[beachdream]

DS is turning 2 next month. He eats weetabix, granola or rice crispies for breakfast, various bits of ham, cheese, bread, marmite, any fruit at lunch time but in the evening he is only prepared to accept pasta. If it isn't a pasta dish, he would rather go to bed with nothing even if he hasn't eaten since an early lunchtime.
To be fair to the child, he will eat pasta with most things: sausages, lentil &tomato sauce, tuna, cheese&spinach, pesto etc so the variety of veg and protein element is okay, but he really won't accept another carb. now and again he will eat savoury fritter/pancake things that we make at the weekend.
My question is how much does it matter if he'll only eat pasta at this stage?is a carb just a carb? I was extremely lucky with DD - she never made a fuss about anything and still doesn't at nearly 5 but he is much more opinionated on the carb front...

So does he kick off if he doesn't get his pasta or will he just not eat the carb element of other meals?

I would just offer up what everyone else is having and let him eat what he wants.

He just doesn't eat the carb bit of other meals- or if it's mixed up (like with cous cous or something) he just ignores the whole meal ...

My ds still largely exists on a diet of sandwiches and fruit, this is improving very very slowly. I don't stress though, just make sure the bread is good quality granary, fillings are varied, fruit is plentiful and new foods are offered regularly. I suggest the same with the pasta. Just let them have their pasta, alongside a balanced diet, encourage trying new foods but don't force it and basically make it a non issue,she'll grow out of the pasta phase sooner if it isn't a battle ground,

It sounds like he's eating reasonably well. I found for DS that between about 2 to 4 years old was the picky stage. What helped during this stage was to focus on textures - mine liked crunchy foods, so I provided lots of varied crunchy things. And often, once he got started eating his meal he would then be able to switch to other foods. At this stage I was fairly accommodating, and he did grow out of it.