Is my 17mo's diet too limited?

[MegBusset]

A few other threads on here about older kids, but just wondering if I have gone horribly wrong with food already. DS became very fussy about food around 12mo, he now eats a good amount but only of the things he likes, he refuses to try anything new.

He will eat toast, yoghurt, cereals etc for breakfast and cheese bagels for lunch. For tea he will eat:

Risotto with butternut squash or other veg
Spinach & leek curry
Fish fingers
Veg in cheese sauce
Spag bol (out of a jar as we are veggie)
Chicken & noodles (ditto)
Endless amount of peas and sweetcorn

Anything else gets refused, he used to eat pasta with tomato or spinach sauce but stopped a few months back. I have tried mash, baked beans, cold cooked meat, different kinds of curry, to no avail. I don't want to cause him to be (more of) a fussy eater but wondering if I should just stick with the food he likes for now, and gradually try to expand his repertoire as he gets older? Or should I try now to get him more used to other foods? He is a strong-minded little fella and I don't want to turn it into a battle of wills...

Oh, he will also eat fruit til the cows come home. So I'm not worried about the healthiness of his diet (he gets loads of fruit and veg) but the variety of it...

why don't you try different variations on the themes? E.g. a different curry, maybe with chickpeas or lentils in for protein. A homemade pasta sauce (with Quorn or lentils instead of meat) and noodle dish with tofu or something and a similar sauce

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I would say that this repetoire of foods is very respectable and one helluva lot better than many 17 month olds. Keep offering new foods, they can be rejected multiple times before finally being accepted.

I posted a thread earlier today about my ds eating (or lack of). I think its quite common for children to have favourites when the're toddlers and to have repetitive eating habits however if I could have prevented the situation i now find myself in with my ds i obviously would have done. Hard for me to advise as hardly in a position to ...but would keep trying to introduce new foods and you never know he might just grow out of it.

Thanks all, I'm sure if I wasn't worrying about this it would be something else (PFB alert). I'm hoping it will become easier as he gets easier to communicate with and coerce/bribe into trying new things

Oh yes you are right - infinitely easier when you can coerce and bribe them into eating things!