I've found that giving my son frequent sips of water/juice helps the food go down and stay down easier. Are you looking for self-feeding items? We also give our 11 month old son graham crackers, bananas, pears, pancakes (especially good with banana cooked in them), rice cakes, cubes of cooked sweet potato. He gets fed (by us, from a spoon) coarsely ground up veggies (lima beans are a current favorite and mash really well), oatmeal, yogurt, fruit, rice, couscous, and whatever we have leftover from dinner the previous night (we have one of those KidCo food mills that we use). This has included everything from Tunesian pepper and potato stew with chickpeas, to encheladas, to lasagne. We frequently let him try our "dinners" in pieces with his hands, but he usually prefers that we grind them up and spoon feed him. Noodles, for example, he doesn't really "get" - they pop right back out of his mouth.
Anyway, I hope this helps!