M.C.
My 10 mo old has the opposite problem--she ONLY wants to feed herself, and has no patience at all for being spoon fed, so we've had to branch out a bit to try to get her a balanced diet on things she can eat by herself. Some of our standards are:
Annie's shells and white cheddar.(her FAVORITE. she CHOWS on this!)
peas
steamed diced carrots
potatoes--regular and sweet
sticky rice (so she can eat it with her hands)
diced firm or extra-firm tofu
cheese
bananas
mangoes
avocados
toast, biscuits, bagels, etc.
cheerios (obviously)
canned peaches and pears (packed in juice, not syrup!)
You might also want to try offering her more sophisticated tastes that you might not expect a baby to eat. I used to nanny for a little boy who was fussy fussy fussy when we tried to give him "kid food," but at age 2 1/2 I once had to physically restrain him from climbing onto a restaurant table to go after the sundried tomato and olive tapanade with a spoon! My daughter, similarly, will eat the plain tofu when we feed it to her, but LOVES it when we marinade it in wine, soy sauce, sesame oil, and garlic for 2 days, then throw it on the grill!
Whatever you try, I always test it first by trying to eat it myself without using my teeth, only mushing the food on the roof of my mouth with my tongue, to see whether my little four-toothed angel will be able to gum it to death!
