MamaPan, my DS is just about to hit 9 months and still isn't really all that interested in food. He's getting better though. We're doing BLS and started offering food to him at 6 months. Its taken until now for him to much more readily pick food up and take it to his mouth, move it around and actually ingest much at all really. I've just been following his lead.

As for finger foods - anything goes really. For dinner he usually gets bits & pieces of whatever we have. If we eat pasta, we make it with penne or rigatoni tubes so its easier for him to pick up. If we have a stirfry, I just keep some of the veg & strips of meat (if the sauce is not ok for him). If we have a roast, we just give him the meat & veg as we would eat it. For brekky I sort of help him with some yoghurt and fruit. And for lunches I usually give him an array of fruit & veg that I happen to have in the house on any given day. He loves cucumber,tomatos, apples, pear, kiwi fruit, plums, prunes, pototo, pumpkin, avocado etc. I've just started offering kruskits too with avo or vegemite spread.

In the early days I did test him to see if the puree & spoon feeding would make any difference - none whatsoever. He is a really suspicious little character and would just try and take the spoon away from me or refuse altogether. He needs to pick up his food, feel it, look at it, taste it etc before he decides whether he goes back for a second go IYKWIM? Yesterday the faces when he tried kiwi fruit were hilarious - then he realised, yep - that's good I'm having some more!