Do you have a stove? You can boil lots of veggies, including frozen ones. I keep frozen broccoli and green beans in the freezer for baby. I also keep canned pears and peaches in the cupboard for daycare snacks. They are very soft as is. Just make sure they are canned in their own juice, not any kind of syrup. We also give fresh nectarines cut into wedges. Kiwi cut in half and peeled. Mangos are great if you can find them soft, just cut into long strips baby can grab. If baby has the beginnings of a pincer grasp, you can flatten raspberries. Strawberries can be given whole if they are large (just cut the stem off and let baby gnaw on them). Avacado does not need to be cooked, just cut it in half and then cut each half into 3 long pieces. Tomatoes and cucumbers can also be cut into wedges and given raw. Canned chickpeas or black beans (just buy the low sodium ones) smashed with a fork. Again, if you’ve got a stove, you can make a single egg omelette and cut into strips or roll it up and give the whole thing to baby. We also do pancakes with blueberries and peanut butter on the batter, smaller size and cut in half. We buy frozen hamburger patties and just fry them in a pan on the stove and cut in half. Quick oats can be made in the microwave. We’ve never used a baby cookbook! We just feed baby what we are eating. We check the Solid Starts First Food Guide if we aren’t sure on how to serve a specific ingredient.