Serious reply...(sorry everyone)
Don't make mush.

It's a lot of work, it's tedious, and it's daft.
We have a (now) 10 month old and the mushiest thing we've ever fed him is the mashed potato he pinched off our very own plates when we were having soss'n'mash.
He eats grapes, banana, pate on toast, cheese, sausages, fishcakes, beef jerky, peas, carrots, noodles, broccoli. In short everything that we eat as adults he joins in with.
To start with the broccoli was steamed until v soft, the carrots boiled a little longer than we'd usually do them and the chilli left out of the noodle stirfy, but now he's ready, willing and able to get his wee teeth into anything we put infront of him.

His cousin, now nearly two, won't eat anything that's not pushed into his mouth on a spoon and utterly refuses to even consider things that need biting as food.

Wee babies don't require mush. They do need food that's softish until they get their fangs but it doesn't need to be pulped.

Even better, if they eat solid food they learn to chew before they learn to swallow lumps. If fed mush, they learn swallowing first and then the first bite of properly solid food is a major choking hazard.

Also This

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