BLW - ideas

Grated cheese was always a hit. Watermelon or rockmelon. Ds started having homemade pizza slices at about that age. Steak cut into fat fingers. Rice crackers, fruit toast, mini pikelets/ corn fritters.   Really they can have anything you have

I find it alot easier if I work on the idea that she can/should eat what we're eating (DD is 9mo, so a wee bit older). So use your meal as a starting point and then just think about how you can modify it to suit his current tastes and abilities. That way, you're only really thinking of one meal idea instead of two! I would also recommend getting your hands on a good baby/kid cookbook like the River Cottage one - has great ideas for those blank moments when trying to think of something to feed them!

I also keep a list of ideas of meals/snacks so when I think of something I write it down and can then refer back. Things like toasties, pasta bakes, paninis, quesadillas, roast veges with pasta sauce etc etc :) Oh and mini muffins are great - you can make a whole batch and freeze them in little bags of 3 or 4, defrost them in the microwave when need be (or at room temp if you're organised!) and they're a great snack (sweet or savoury).
Mini quiches are great in the same way, and all kinds of varieties of fritters (courgette, fish, roast vege, corn etc etc). You could also try omelettes with yummy fillings like spinach, and fruit pancakes for breakfast. Have fun!

fritters - sweetcorn, tuna, potato, kumera - you get the idea.
Mixed froz vegies
pikelets,scones
roast vegies
fish pie/shepherds pie/spag bol sauce
fish

Why do you not offer the same foods you eat? We also just offered what we had, it was much more interesting off our plate! If you find that food is just being thrown over the side, cut it up smaller, we found it was more likely to make it into the mouth.

At that age you'd probably want to keep the bits a bit bigger so a) he can pick them up easily and b) they're less of a choking risk.

I second what everyone else has said... DS just eats exactly what we eat. No problems here with tomato based sauces or tomatoes - he used to have cherry tomatoes cut in half around that age. He basically just sucked the seeds and spat out the skin though!
DS loves mince...that's his never-fail food.
As others have said, fritters of any kind are great, nice and soft so easy to eat and you can put heaps of different stuff in. My favourite recipe is a baked bean one I got from the Healthy Food Guide...I add grated carrot and courgette for extra vege. I also add a small tin of tuna to my sweetcorn fritters...don't really taste it and it adds extra protein etc.

And I also always have a batch of mini muffins in the freezer like someone else mentioned.

I was also giving DS sandwiches at that age too.

There's a BLW forum online somewhere that I used to go to when I was a bit stuck for ideas...actually there are lots of recipes and ideas online for BLW.

I have a pdf of 100 BLW recipes (we didn't use many of them as DD couldn't handle onions or garlic for months, so I had to make a lot of blander things). Anyone know if there's any way I can attach it?