started with minced meats (beef / lamb / chicken) and steamed fish (cod mostly - because it's soft and no bones) pureed the minced meats as they did not have many teeth yet, but by 10mins they did not like the pureed foods and so I would just cook it with more sauce and also longer to make the meats softer - made a lot of bolognese sauce with pasta when my kids were around 8mths....also did a lot of white sauce - lamb stew...well, lamb with peas (frozen kind) that was cooked till the whole thing was really soft. my kids really liked both. didn't do pork as it gets dry very easily when it is over cooked and not easy to swallow, even for us adults! 