Food- 8 month old baby

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Hi there,
Just looking for some reassurance & inspiration!!! What does your 7/8/9 month old baby have to eat on a typical day? Can you be specific i.e purées, mashed, finger foods, broken into small pieces etc. Thank you.

My baby was pretty crap at this age. Think I'd managed to move him on from Ella's super smooth purees to my own purees by this point. Mainly sweet, though he would eat a tamotoey puree and also pureed blueberries, bananas and yoghurt. The only savoury puree I could get him to eat at this point was avocado. 😂

Eventually by 9 months he'd have soldiers and runny egg. As a result he had this for lunch every day! Often with avocado.

Mashed banana/ scrambled egg/ fromage frais/ home made purees: sweet potato, Apple/ carrot. Mashed potato, jar meals and puds. I didn't have the nerves for blw, I got too scared of the choking noises !

I tried him with sugar free rusks but he didn't like them. I also forgot to add weetabix and porridge

My DD is 8 months old her days looks like this usually :
Breakfast - porridge
Lunch - finger foods often something of the following : homemade crustless quiche, croquets , sandwich, breadsticks, fruit, avocado, cucumber, tomatoes, ham, scrambled eggs, toast.
Dinner - fork mashed or cut up small version of whatever we are having. Tonight it’s chicken Chasseur with mash and green beans. And a yoghurt for pudding.
I will give her premade baby food if we are out and about or if I haven’t defrosted her anything but try my best to give finger food for at least one meal if I possible.
She is a really good eater but was weaned at 4 months of medical advice due to horrendous reflux so she’s been eating for 4 months now

My DD is 7mo. She usually has:

Breakfast - Scrambled eggs on toast (so strips of toast with scraambled egg, she uses hands to shove into her gob)/eggy bread (strips)/breakfast muffin (broken down into a couple of big pieces) (I make them with them peanut butter + fruit generally)/pieces of fruit such as strawberry (whole), watermelon (sticks)/pancakes in strips
Lunch – Pinwheels, ripped into two/savoury muffins/sticks of vegetables with hummus/fruit
Dinner - Whatever we are having. Last night was strips of lemon chicken with potatoes, day before was spaghetti bolognaise (messy but she just uses her hands and scoops!), etc.

Mine is nearly 8 months. He usually eats:

Breakfast: porridge or weetabix and some kind of fruit as finger food. If it's banana, most of it goes down the hatch. Anything firmer gets an enthusiastic gumming and that's it, but he seems to enjoy the flavour.

Lunch and Dinner: some kind of lumpy purée (Ella's kitchen if I'm out/in a rush or something homemade. He likes lentils especially). 2 finger foods: avocado, strips of omelette, quiche, cream cheese or peanut butter sandwich with crusts cut off, soft cooked sticks of vegetable, rice with grated cheese mixed in to make it sticky, rice cakes, mashed potato (messy), halved new potatoes etc.

He often has some yoghurt or custard sweetened with fruit purée for pudding. This sounds like he eats loads, but we started weaning at 4 months due to really severe reflux so he's had a head start. Some days he packs loads away and others he wants mainly milk.

Oh my DD bloody loves sweet potato fries with a sprinkle of cinnamon, so we've been having them for basically every dinner lately too. I think my DP will flip if he sees another sweet potato, though.

Oh and he will sometimes have what we are having for dinner roughly mashed up or cut into strips. We're veggie and things like bean chilli, very mild veggie curry and lentil bolognese tend to go down well.

My 7 month old will have porridge / wheatabix with some fruit pouch mixed in.

Bananas
Strawberries
Kiwi
Sweet potato wedges
Broccoli
Babycorn
Pineapple
Watermelon
All cut so she can eat it herself.

Chopped fruit and Greek yoghurt

Pasta in any form with any sauce
Cous cous with whatever sauce we've had in our tea mixed in

Soup (although very messy) we just dunk some crusty bread in and let her suck/gum it All off

Cream cheese on bagels/breadsticks/bread
Hummus on bagels/breadsticks/bread
Cheese on toast

Scrambled egg / omelette

Pizza crust 😂

We've literally just been giving her bits of whatever we've been having

Mine is 8 months (he’s DC3). I don’t purée or mash anything, he basically eats what older two eat.
For example today he’s had...

Breakfast: pancake chopped into strips, 2 strawberries, half a satsuma.

Lunch: Philadelphia sandwich, cucumber sticks, Greek yoghurt.

His dinner will be roast chicken, a roast potato, some carrot sticks and a floret of broccoli. I won’t mash it, just cut into pieces that he can handle himself.

DD2 was the same and basically just fed herself whatever DD1 was eating (I spoon feed yoghurt).
DD1 on the other hand barely ate anything until she was about 10 months!

Other favourite meals include pasta in tomato sauce (I don’t put much sauce on and just let him pick up the pasta and feed himself), cod fillets with sweet potato wedges, omelette, beans on jacket potato, bagels, any form of roast meat with Yorkshire pudding, cottage pie etc.

Between the ages of 7-9 months my youngest used to eat the following:
Breakfast: porridge (ready brek made with whole milk with half a pot of fruit puree in)
Lunch: either an Ella's pouch if out or lacking inspiration with some baby puffs (carrot flavour wotsit type things) or scrambled eggs & beans, or leftovers (see dinners) I mainly spoon fed him as he was becoming increasingly less interested in his bottles & I was worried that he wasn't eating enough. The puffs were my attempt at encouraging self feeding.
Dinner: things like risotto, chilli with rice, shepherd's pie with veg in, typically meals the rest of the family were eating anyway made with low salt stock cubes & just cut up in to tiny pieces. If we were having something spicy then I'd make him some pasta using soup pasta with a simple sauce (diced onions, passatta with a spoon of garlic & herb philly stirred in) all "soft" meals with small pieces as he didn't have any teeth (now 15 months & still only has 2 teeth!)

Thank you very much for your info and help.