What you are doing is proper.However, Offer foods like mashed rice with curd, dal, khichdi or any seasonal vegetables and fruit. Include a variety of soft finger foods. This is also the time to start offering finger foods such as: sticks of well-cooked carrot bite sized pieces of soft fleshy fruits such as muskmelon (kharbooja), watermelon, sapotas (cheeku), ripe papaya, pear, mango or banana unsalted breadsticks boiled potato wedges small pieces of paneer toast slices of cucumber peeled slices of apple You baby may now enjoy foods that are more filling and have stronger flavours. You can introduce : soft well cooked pasta shapes bite sized steamed vegetables - such as peas, beans, cauliflower, carrot breads (avoid granary or multigrain breads for now because the hard pieces may increase the risk of choking) bite sized pieces of paranthas and chapatis small cubes or pieces of cheese or paneer rice cakes or mini idlis lentils and other cooked pulses (avoid heavy and hard-to-digest chana dal, chhola and rajma) dark green leafy vegetables, such as spinach soft, cooked lean meat such as chicken or carefully de-boned fish chicken nuggets puffed rice breadsticks made of millet Hope that help.