Transitioning from purées to solids advice?

Question

My lo is 9 months old at the end of October. Does great for any purées. He also does good with egg mashed with a fork. Mashed up ground beef or chicken, salmon. He chews decently it seems! I’m looking for advice.. ( not about puffs or baby crackers but about foods) ideas of what to start giving him to pick up with his hands? Should I try soft tiny little cubes of carrot? Or tiny tiny pieces of bread. I’m not judging anyone else but I’m not a fan of baby snacks like puffs or crackers so I’m looking for alternatives as to what to try. Hes only barely starting to get two teeth. I worry about choking ( I didn’t do baby led
Weaning). Any ideas? Usually now I give him a meat fruit and veg at mealtimes. The fruit or veg is obviously quite soft and basically fork mashed. The meat be chewsi make it small as I can.

Answer

Toast strips with peanut butter and chia seeds are my go to! Plus Cheerios. The puffs are pointless really but Cheerios are iron fortified so a good food for baby. My daughter eats whatever we’re eating so long as it’s safe (can be smooshed between two fingers). Tonight she ate a bunch of roasted sweet potatoes, some small pieces of chicken, and even a few bits of Brussels sprouts.

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Try all the soft foods you’re doing just not mashed up. Chunks of scrambled eggs and big chunks of steamed veggies are great for them to grab and nom on with those gums. The Intro to Solids class I took taught the smush test - if you can smush it between 2 fingers, they can mash it up in their mouth. Other foods to offer for them to feed themselves - oatmeal (make a big batch really thick, keep it in the fridge so it’s pretty solid when you offer it), cucumbers cut into sticks they can grab, canned fruit like peaches, fish...

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I give my son avocados and bananas and then I've started giving him mushy carrots recently. He's still working on solids.

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What about cutting up fruit? It’s soft in their mouths. I cut up blueberries and strawberries this morning.

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Some of the easy things we have in our house for a quick meal/snacks are cheese raviolis, blueberry waffles, cottage cheese, fruit cup (dump the juice), yogurt. 
She eats normally whatever we eat as long as it’s not too spicy or greasy. She eats a lot of meat, roasted veggies and fruit.

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We started doing rice and beans and she loved it. We saw that she had the chewing motion down with that and now she eats anything we eat. We did start with a lot of squishy veggies that were steamed.

Transitioning from purées to solids advice?

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