My LO will be 12 months on Sunday. We have been giving her chunky food to pick up since around 7 months. She will happily eat cheerios, puffs, , noodles mandarin oranges and bananas but thats it. She will pick up ANYTHING and put it in her mouth, but she immediately spits out all veggies and meats. I make sure they are soft enough. I've tried making them softer, harder, smaller, larger. She won't! She will still eat pureed veggies and she will eat ground meat if we hide it in a pasta dish with noodles and sauce.

Is this normal? I thought she would be off purees by now, but it's the only way she eats any veggies.