As I recall, the first big hunk of meat that Babybear had was a piece of pork fillet done on her grandmother's George Foreman Grill and boy oh boy she loved it. We then moved on to roast chicken, but not the breast meat as it had a tendency to break up and make her cough. And not minced meat either for the same reason. Casseroles, on the other hand, were a source of great delight.
A month or so later, however, and there was no stopping her. With the advent of the pincer grip, however, she had decided that big fist-sized pieces were for kids and wanted her meat cut up into bite-sized pieces.
As to how we actually cook it, well, there's not much grilling of meat goes on in this house, with the exception of bacon. I never really think meat responds that well to a domestic grill to be honest. So it's frying, braising, casseroling all the way here until someone buys me a Georgie Foreman.

Does it stop being fun?

Here's what I think...

Babybear really, really didn't cut back her milk when the clock struck midnight on her first birthday. I think I remember totting it up and she was on about 30oz a day.

She did, however, cut it back over the next few months and has been on the HV's recommended 14-20oz since, say, 14 months. Correspondingly her food intake went up, particularly at breakfast and dinner. Lunchtime she's still a bit easy-oasy about, she has a long nap between about 11am and 1pm and I think she prefers to eat little and often in the afternoons.

I admit that I did get a bit stressed about the milk thing as 12 months loomed, just because all the books talk about cutting back milk in favour of solids and, you know, the whole 'just for fun until they're one'. But you know, the great advantage of BLW (it seems to me, anyway) is that it does give you the full six months to get your head round feeding your child, so the idea of a 'balanced diet' doesn't seem as unlikely as it did in those first few heady weeks.

Anyway, what do all you 'oldies' think, I think it might be really helpful for people starting out. (Plus someone asked me to post on this and I've lost her email, so I can't give her the due credit...)