I must admit we mostly use jarred food, but we are trying to fatten up Senor Pants and so we need to feed him more meat and the jarred meat is SO disgusting. Swistle just had a post on making your own baby food and I just followed her advice and it worked really well. I had a left over grilled chicken breast, so I cut it up, and threw it in the food processor with some brown rice (you could leave out the rice, or use pasta instead). Then just blended it and added water till out came out to a consistency that seemed easy to eat. It's so much cheaper and less gross seeming I think I am going to try potatoes and spinach next. Maybe some squash. At this point, I hate to admit it, but I'm pretty much just throwing our leftovers in the food processor and grinding them up, and adding water, and if he eats it, it's great. If not it was going to get thrown out anyway. We also have had a lot of luck with pudding, and refried beans and cheese. Some mushy kinds of noodles. But then again, we're trying to pack the pound on the kid, so we just buy anything mushy and fattening we can find.