Meal suggestions please - am booooored with pasta!

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I have been trying very hard to eat with my DCs (2.5yo) more often, but am going insane with boredom eating the same things!
I am not sure how much longer I can eat like a student

DD is v particular, eats only pasta (wholemeal or regular, any shape) with cheese sauce/tomato sauce (with tuna or meat)/pesto and occasionally she will eat mushroom risotto. She flatly refuses anything potato based (mash, baked, chips) or anything with pastry. She likes eating bread, all fruits, and raw carrots, but no cooked veg or meats (so a sunday roast is out).

Anyone got any other good recipes to try? She really seems to dislike meat, so am wondering about veggie things that might be good. I also worry about her getting enough complex carbs, can't think of anything other than pasta potatoes and bread!

stir fry, as the vegtables can really be only bery very lightly cooked and add noddles (tell her they are wiggley pasta?)

Fried rice with stir fryed vegtalbes agian but again don't over do the cooking with the vegtalbes.

Different rissoto other than mushrooms.

Have you tryed fish? Other than tuna, perhpas a little haddock or salmon

grate the potato and make into a burger shape and add some cheese?

a chef once told me that there are 365 different ways to cook potato, would she eat sauted potato? cubed and roasted?

Pancakes, then try yorkshire pudding with a little gravy?

There is nothing really wrong with pasta with tomato sauce - in Italy a lot of people have that every day - it's the base of their mediterranean diet, so I really would not worry.

However, if you just fancy a change:

• Will she eat savoury crepes? Maybe with a tomato with veg filling? Spinach and ricotta filling? Pumpkin and ricotta filling? They can be made with buckwheat too
• Cous cous or bulgur with her favourite things in it?
• Veg soup with pearl barley?
• Would she eat sweet potatoes? Can have them as Jacket potatoes maybe?
• Polenta with mixed sauteed mushrooms and melted parmesan? Or with a bolognese sauce?

Thanks for the tips.
Had never thought of pancakes, they might be fun. She tends to like things she can easily eat herself though, without me cutting them up, so might have to be tiny one! Good idea though. Also like the polenta, could maybe try gnocchi too had forgotten about that.

I have tried noodles with light chinese sauce, she loved them but picked out all the veg!! She often doesn't like mixed up food, and I do find she will eg separate the sauce from the pasta rather than eat together.

Maybe I will just keep trying with the potato. I have never tried Jacket ones (sweet or otherwise) as I can't bear them (was the only thing I could eat when pg!!!). Might have a sweet JP though!!

When mine was at the fussy stage we'd have something he liked one day and something he wasn't so sure about (ok actively disliked!) the other. It goes with all the advice about trying a new taste 20 times or whatever and then you learn to like it. So alternate days he didn't eat much for one meal a day but he didn't seem to starve and I hope it helped him get through that stage of ever decreasing food choices.

Potato gnocchi was a hit! And super quick to cook too. I did call it pasta, but special pasta in a special shape. She was v v pleased I had made something new 'especially for me!'. She ate loads, with a simple tomato sauce. Even asked for seconds

Going to try some small pancakes this weekend and baked sweet potato too. Thanks for inspiring me to do something different!