I feed my baby(hes my third) what I eat most of the time (often as leftovers because we don't always eat together either). (Your fingers = her gums. She doesn't need teeth and won't have chewing teeth until she is almost 2). Basically if you can pick it up and squish it between two fingers she can eat it. I cut up most foods into about 1cm cubes My 10 month old eats any and every fruit except berries, every vegetable steamed until soft or canned with no salt added, pasta with spagetti sauce(any kind - my baby likes ziti cut into rings and tortellini especially), shredded cheese (like the preshredded stuff from the supermarket), cut up low sodium lunch meat, baked ham, chicken, pork, and fish. Bread, cheerios, adult oatmeal prepared in the microwave, egg yolks (no whtes), yogurt, bread, plain pancakes and waffles broken into pieces with my fingers.
(I feed some foods without dicing them - mostly avacado wedges, really ripe pears, bananas broken into thirds along thier natural lines lengthwise, and regular soft bread and he practices biting pieces off, I just sit right next to him to make sure he doesn't get too much).
Really she can eat ANYTHING except peanut butter, whole grapes(fine pealed and cut up pretty small), berries (not supposed to eat until 1 year). unsteamed hard veggies, honey, sugary foods (could by they arent neccessary right now). Just make sure she is putting solid foods in her mouth by herself since she will have better control of how the food moves and if you notice she tends to put too much in, just give her a little at a time.
Oh and you probably want to use a flat place mat or just the high chair tray instead of a plate, which will likely go flying first thing for a while yet.
