I think your DS is getting lots of variety. If he eats a proper dinner then all of the things you have said he likes actually make up alot of lunch options.
One thing that my DS likes (and we all eat) is what we call 'DS's Special Soup'. We make it with minced turkey, but have used minced chicken and pork too, we add ginger, lemongrass, grated carrot and small pieces of broccoli. Sometimes we add black quinoa but always we add little pasta shells. DP and I eat it as a soup but mainly we drain the broth off for DS and give him the meat, pasta and veggies. He loves it. I put leftovers into small containers and freeze so he can have it again for lunches.
He has now gotten worse and will only eat savoury food at almost 18mths old. At the moment his breakfast, lunch and snack diet consists of Vegemite Toast, Cheesybite and Crackers, dry Water Crackers and Rice Crackers.
He is simply refusing anything sweet at all, which is mainly fruit and has even started refusing yoghurt.
He is still eating all his dinner options - although he has started to refuse vegies - so I'm still trying to keep up the pasta, rice options but I feel so bad that he isn't getting much variety in his day to day diet. Add to that the fact that his brother will eat anything and everything and DD is fussy but not to this extreme, I'm now catering for numerous requests it feels like I'm running a cafe.
He will throw it on the floor or squash it between his fingers and then throw it on the floor. He would go hungry rather than eat fruit and veggies. Oh and if he does leave food his brother will always eat it.
Thanks. My kids like to be different for sure, most parents complain about trying to get their kids to eat savoury because all they want is sweet things (which are more readily available) but not my DS1 he has to be the other way around
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