Hey Mich, my DS was really slow to take to solids, he was over 12 months before he started to be consistently interested.
It's difficult not to worry, but at only just 8 months, the BF is still the most important thing, and she will continue to thrive on this. So you're doing a great job there.
The second thing that I'd do, for my own sanity if nothing else, would be to not worry about giving huge variety of foods in the hope of coming up with one that she will eat, just pick a handful of things that are healthy & easy for you to prepare, and offer them consistently, because she will eventually go "mmm, yum.." and then you won't be able to feed her enough It might still be a few months away, but if you're not doing a chocolate/chips diet in an attempt to get her to eat something/anything then she'll probably eventually decide that she does like fruit/vegies/both.
THis is certainly my experience with my DS, he's now great with lots of fruits (most of the time), and is pretty good with vegies. In fact he's a bit of a weird child, cos he'll eat raw tomatoes & capsicum very happily. I'm a bit of a food-police-freak in that I've never given him cake, biscuits (except for a rare dry biscuit), chips etc. If I'm out & about & desperate/disorganised, then I give him a sushi roll, which is fun as well as healthy, although I do watch the seaweed consumption, cos that can choke him, which isn't fun.
for me, one of the best things about BB when I was going through the "my DS is never going to eat normal food & will never give up BFing", was that there are lots of us out here who have kids that don't switch onto the whole solids thing until quite "late", it's really pretty common. Which I found very comforting.
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