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Baby foods
Well, if you want to be really fanatic about the food-allergy-avoidance thing (really only an issue if one of the parents has food allergies), you should avoid: eggs, peanuts, wheat, milk, citrus, strawberries, chocolate, and probably some other things I'm forgetting. If you're really that paranoid, it can make finding acceptable foods harder--even Cheerios have wheat starch in them.
That said, I wouldn't worry about giving the vietbabe biscuits--sure, they have lots of fat, but fat is good for babies (and it sounds like overweight is not a problem here). They don't have that much salt, especially compared with prepared snack foods like potato chips or that perennial favorite Goldfish crackers.
I would recommend: shredded cheese, whole milk yogurt, saltine crackers (you can get unsalted tops), teddy grahams, Cheerios and Kix, frozen peas (slightly thawed, but Magnus has always liked them straight from the freezer), cubes of cooked (cooled) sweet potato and, when they're in season, ripe pear. You can also check in the health food section of your supermarket or some place like Whole Foods for other low-allergen baby snacks.
If she really just wants what you're having, you can adapt some of the stuff from your plate, or invest in one of those baby food grinders. Mashed potatoes were the first thing Magnus learned to eat with a spoon--they're easy to scoop and don't fall off the spoon.
I wouldn't worry too much about trying to get her to eat meat. Seriously! Magnus (at 2 3/4) has only recently started eating any kind of meat other than white meat chicken, and it hasn't stunted his growth any. It's also really hard to get any kind of meat into a consistency that an 8 1/2 month old can handle, and it's not the easiest thing for them to digest.
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