when giving your LO toast, do you butter it? Yep, always did.

weetbix - yes or no? Hmmm.. we did, but not a lot. I mixed it up a bit, she didn't really like baby rice cereal (mush!) but did like baby muesli. At 6 months if you're doing BLS she should be fine with that, and might prefer a more interesting texture. Every now & then I would try her with a bit of weetbix or my own cereal, in the spirit of trying new things. Just not heaps of it.

cereals - how important is it for them to have anyway? And if so, what's a good one that miss fussy may like? Trial & error.... and I don't think it's hugely impotant at this age. She will get her carbs elsewhere, milk is still her main source of nutrition.

and can I make porridge up on cows milk for her? or not yet? I would wait a few more months. You don't have to wait until 12 months, they can have cows milk on cereal but I always waited until 10-ish months.

Is it OK to skip a solid "meal"? Geez, I would always skip the meal over the sleep. A hungry baby will catch up later, a tired baby is horrible. But you will know her better than anyone & what she can cope with. Don't forget the solid meals arent' as important as the milk feeds at the moment. It shouldn't hurt her, nutritionally to miss one. It might muck with her routine a bit though if she's accustomed to it.

Do you all make wonderful healthy wholesome meals at every meal, or do you take some shortcuts too? Eg - prepared sauces for stirfries/pasta/etc. Do you use them? And if so, so you allow your babies to have them? We took shortcuts allll the time. Sometimes the stuff we were having was too processed, or too much salt etc for her. Sometimes I would even :O give her a baby jar, I just let her feed it to herself (still in the spirit of BLS ) When we did make something that was suitable for her I would sometimes freeze portions for her so I had something for those nights.
Time was a big factor too, I'm not terribly organised in the evenings & it's handy to have a backup plan.

What can I do with all these purees? Ahh no idea