Food, glorious food!

Now we've got a highchair - thank you Grandma & Grandad - we're giving Imogen "proper" food. And she loves it! We can't sit her in the chair until it's ready for her - she just sits there and bangs the tray! As I said in a previous post, we're not doing the whole pureeing malarkey, and so it's finger foods all the way. There's not much we're avoiding - wheat-containing things (bread, pasta etc) and fish/seafood - and they're only until she's 6 months old. And there's not much that she hasn't liked - in fact nothing!
We've been offering her something whenever we've had anything, and have tried to keep it pretty much the same as what we're having. If we're having pasta, she's had rice cakes, and if we've put a sauce or something on that's a bit too much for her at the moment, we've just given her some plain meat instead. But tonight, for example, we had chicken with veg in a tomato base with new potatoes - all I did different for Imogen was take hers out before adding the Worcester sauce because of the salt content of that (and to give it time to cool down).
Some people have said to us "What about he choking on big pieces?". But it just doesn't happen (have a search on the Internet for the science bit behind it - all to do with what order they learn to do things, and natural gag reflexes). Yes, we wouldn't leave her alone with the food, and she's certainly gagged on things, but not for very long at all, and she soon spits out what she doesn't want.
It is a messy business, and obviously some things are messier that others. If we want an easy life mushroom, ham and carrots are a good bet. If we're prepared for a full change of clothes then rice cakes, fromage fraiche (smeared on the rice cakes) and cheese can be added in!
But it's also a very sociable way of her feeding, with us all eating together which is lovely.
From our few days of experience, it seems a lot easier than cooking loads of separate things, pureeing everything and then having to spend ages forcing it into her on a spoon, before being able to eat myself! Bring on the finger food!