He loves feeding himself and eating food off our plates. He isn't v keen on purees/being fed and I would prefer the BLW approach but I took fright when we got started. I'm therefore now trying to push foods he can eat himself to get to a stage where I can forget the mush. He's 8 1/2 months. Hegenerally gets on very well with bread, rice cakes, cooked carrot sticks, sticks of cheese. I've been trying him on bits of chicken (finger shaped)and peeled raw bits of apple and pear. This hasn't worked v well. He just stuffs the whole lot in, chews (happily for a while) and then gets mightily annoyed when he realises that it doesn't just dissolve like the foods listed above and then starts crying really horribly. When I try to remove said bit of food he cries even more but is cured as soon as the bit of food is removed.
Ideas/suggestions/Is this normal??