To cry over a potato smiley?

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I'm at my wits end with weaning my 10 month old. She eats basically nothing. I have tried spoon feeding, baby led weaning, a combination of both. I've tried so many different foods and the only things she will reliably eat are yoghurts, fruit pots and baby porridge. She hates anything too textured. If I spoon feed she shuts her mouth, if I let her handle it herself she throws it on the floor. I've just lost my shit over a potato smiley (not in front of her but fucking hell I could scream).

The amount of time I spend trying to make her nutritious or interesting food only for her to Chuck it on the floor is driving me insane. And im so worried about her development. Other babies her age are having 3 meals a day and dropping bottles but she's still having 5 over 24 hours because she's simply not getting enough food and when she does it's half a yoghurt or a bastard fruit pouch.

Has anyone else got/had dc like this? Does it get better? My elder two both ate like horses and would have bowlfuls of whatever I offered.

DS1 was great with food. DD was terrible with many things, including food. We spent months where she would only entertain porridge or weetabix- went on until she was 2. We would think she'd broadened her food choices and then we'd go back to weetabix. Then it was scrambled egg for a while. Then it was tuna sandwiches. Then, to my shame, she had a phase where the only thing she would scoff completely was Gregg's cheese pasty. To my shame, I used to buy her one when I took her out for her afternoon walk. That lasted about two weeks and she went off those.

There was food all over the place- she squished it in her hands, threw it, chewed it and spat it out, dropped it for the cats-who weren't very interested.
She had quite a good aim and PIL were hit several times by bits of food.
She's 5 now and a really good eater.

At this age, baby nurse reassured me that milk is a whole food and not to get too stressed.
As others have said, sit and eat as a family but don’t stress about how much is eaten.
DD1 was a horror with food (still is with somethings), same kid travels the world now and has eaten frogs legs and scorpions (does not recommend the horse meat in Mongolia though).
Good luck

There’s nothing wrong with being a small size - some people just are smaller.

The important thing to watch is percentiles - so as long as she’s not dropping percentiles you’re fine.

DD1 is still in 9-12 months clothes at 2 years old and a perfectly healthy weight. Her percentiles are low but she’s followed them, which is the important thing. If she had jumped up too many or down too many that would be cause for concern.