Help please - stuck in a rut feeding 15 month old

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Please could any lovely MNers out there help me. I have got myself stuck in a bit of a rut feeding my 15 month old DS. He loves strong flavours, fruit and will eat houmous until it is covered all over himself. However he is also quite happy to fling a lot of our lovingly prepared food on the floor. I have to give him a packed lunch for at his child-minders 3 days a week and really struggle with that. Please, Please, Please can you creative cooks out there help?

15 months is well old enough not to be flinging food. I would remove the food and use a severe tone before giving it back (from the floor when it was mine!). He doesn't have to eat it but no throwing!

I don't think it matters if food is a bit repetitive. One of my ds's was incredibly fussy when he was 1-3 and then started branching out into all sorts of the stuff. The other one has stayed fussy! I have turned into one of those mums who has a few 'stock' meals which I know they all like, and then chuck in a few experiments a couple of times a week.

• Fishfingers and chips once a week!
• Spag bol
• Bacon/ cheese sauce and jacket potatoes
• Roast chicken/ chicken pieces cooked in the oven
• Chilli con carne and rice
• Lentils and parathas
• Fried rice

Veg: Brocolli, green beans, raw carrots, peas and sweetcorn

This is just what my 3 kids all like. Then I do some other meals, and sometimes a couple of them like it, and one doesn't. One doesn't like sausages or burgers, one doesn't like Thai chicken curry etc. etc. If they don't eat much for one day I don't stress.

Packed lunch. He probably goes through phases and then gets bored. Cut up fruit/ bits of veg, crackers and cheese, houmous and veg if he likes it, pasta salad? cold cheese on toast, homemade cake/ muffin etc.

Thank you for advice - think you are right he does go through phases (though that doesn't seem to apply to houmous) We don't really eat a lot of pasta because his big sister has never liked it but I shall def give that a go because I think he might.