what can i feed my 10mo? ideas please!

[janek]

my dd can eat, but if she is ambivalent about a food she will refuse it. we can force her to eat it, but that doesn't seem like a very good way to encourage a healthy attitude to food.
she loves weetabix and avocado+banana, will usually eat broccoli cheese (but not cauliflour cheese, oh no) and a spinach/mashed potato/cheese concoction. she has also been known to eat annabel karmel's lovely lentils, but she has also flatly refused them. i also mush up our food sometimes, rarely with any success.
she wants to feed herself, but if she does she still eats very little. i have two questions:
do you have a guaranteed winner of a recipe?
and is it acceptable for her to regularly not eat very much? she still drinks plently of breastmilk (too much?), but there has to come a time when this isn't enough for her.
i am worried because she doesn't weigh very much, but perhaps she is naturally slight, as i am. she is active and alert and if i weren't her mother i wouldn't think there was anything wrong with her. am i being neurotic? what would you do?!?

[Chandra]

No idea about a guaranteed dinner recipee as even DS favourites fell out of favour from time to time.

If she is having plenty of breastmilk most her nutritional needs will be covered by it so she may not be interested in the other things. I would try to feed her a bit less often in order for her to show interest in other things. Some years ago somebody mentioned that babies still have the instinct of choosing the food that it's better for them if you allow them to do it, I placed several vegetables in front of very fussy DS and... he went straight for the broccoli! and it remained a firm favourite for years... and now, he wont touch it with a barge pole!