Started to introduce vegetable purees when my son was 5 months and being breastfed. He absolutely loved his lunch time teaspoons of puree and I was careful to give him mainly veg rather than fruit.
At 6 months I started to introduce porridge. In Sweden where I live porridge is one of the main baby foods, enriched with iron, vitamins etc. A lot of people stop breastfeeding and don't even give formula if the baby is eating porridge and drinking välling (a more liquid milky version drunk from a bottle) because it's so enriched.
Soon he started to refuse the purees and eventually I stopped trying as lunch time was becoming a battle and I was worried he was going hungry (he's a slim baby so I have to keep an eye on his weight). So it was porridge for breakfast, lunch and supper. I was comforted by the fact that on his morning porridge I put 4 or 5 tablespoons of different fruit puree and he seemed very happy to eat that.
A couple of weeks ago he got a really bad cold and would only drink milk (he is now on the whole only getting bottles, having slowly weaned him to only nightfeeds over the months from turning 6 months). Now he is back on his porridge (though hardly eats any at lunch or supper, prefers his milk) but refuses it if there's any fruit puree on.
Tried with a simple carrot and sweetcorn puree today in case it is the 'older' purees he doesn't like but he hated that too.
Am so worried that he will soon start refusing his porridge too. Surely an 8 month old needs more than formula milk and a bowl, max two, of porridge each day!
Btw, have tried with bread which he seems happy to eat but just clumps in his mouth. He likes wafer biscuits and corn snacks (look like Wotsits but are made purely of corn) but other finger foods like carrot are left firmly alone.
Sorry for epic message and thank you in advance!