Um.. i think by 11 months you should start introducing some more solid foods.. such as finger foods.. as by 12 months they really should and are capable of eating what we eat. I started Jesse on vegemite toast and mixing over cooked rice or pasta into his already dinners until he got use to the lumpiness. You can also now give weatbix (from 8 months) for breakfast also. I mix in some fruit to give it flavour. Um.. with stopping blending.. just make it more and more coarse or lumpy until its pretty much solid and he is use to chewing it. I think around Jesse's birthday actually he refused to let me feed him his dinner and lunch. I can still feed him his weatbix in the mornings, but towards the end of it we share spooning it in. For lunch Jesse has sometimes yogurt, a sandwich and banana or some pieces of apple or cheese. Yogurt i can feed to him, but the rest he eats himself. Dinner he has either meatballs (i made beef and chicken ones he just munches on), nuggets or fish pieces(you can get ones with vegies mixed in), vege nuggets or tuna rissoles (i make).. and vegies.. sometimes cheese.

I just started out with things that i knew would break up easy in his mouth and went from there. Makes it so much easier when theyre feeding themselves.. its more messy and you have a mess to clean up each meal but thats just how they learn.