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I think all kids are different when it comes to food. Our DD had no interest in anything except purees until 10 months.
Our DS now at 8 months can't get enough. He has 3 meals a day and snacks. For his meals he has a puree fruit/veggie and then I give him pieces of whatever else we are eating. If it's meat I cut up small and otherwise I give him long pieces that he can hold on to (like cucumber, pepper, mango). About a month ago we started with little puffs and baby mum mums, then Cheerios until he figured out how to pick everything up and put in his mouth. That took at least a week. Maybe try some of the Gerber puffs on his tray for now so he can just practice picking up and putting in his mouth? It does take a lot of coordination! The self feeding will come. It's ok to spoon feed or offer it from your fingers. I'd just keep putting stuff on his tray though to encourage him to play with it and learn to figure out how to get it to his mouth on his own.

Following. We have this problem but even worse because mine won't eat purees from us either. He clamps his mouth shut if I offer food. If I put food in front of him, he either ignores it completely, grabs it and just bangs it on the table, or tosses it on the floor. No attempt to put food in his mouth.

My daughter naturally put everything in her mouth (which thankfully included food) and I never realized how easy it was to get her to eat.

@Goldengirl: It isn't a lot of work because I am still on mat leave. I make big batches of purees and freeze them. My purees are simple but I make a lot at once and then pull out what I need for the next day out of the freezer where I have a stock pile. I make a lot of straight fruit purees (strawberry, pear, Apple, mango and blueberry). I also make mix fruit and veggie purees (broccoli & pear, seeet potato/carrot/apple). For breakfast he has baby cereal and then Yoghurt mixed with a fruit puree. Then he has one of the veggie mixes for lunch and dinner with finger foods. If I wasn't on mat leave this would be more time consuming. Plus I have so much stock piled at this point I don't really need to make more. I figure in another month or two he'll be pretty done with the purees.