When my dd was a baby I used to make up meals like very bland curry, spag bol etc by chopping ingredients really small, snapping dried spaghetti or smashing up dried pasta shapes before putting them into the pan with chopped tinned tomatoes and the other ingredients. Then to keep meat soft and not chewy I would cut it up really small using kitchen scissors and put it in raw (if you brown it or cook it first it will just go tough and rubbery) so that it is cook in the juice of the sauce I was making. Basically you're putting everything into one pot and cooking it all together rather than doing it seperately, so a slow cooker is a pretty good way of doing it. As long as you cook it for a while on a nice low heat and keep adding water to it to make sure it dosen't dry out you'll have lovely soft small lumped food that's just as good as the jars. 

Hope this helps.

i give my baby . mashed sweet potato with mashed carrot she loves that. or mashed couliflour with melted cheeze mixed in.     and blend some chicken and mix it with mash potato and a bit of full cream milk you could allso add some mashed veg if you wanted.

If you do something like a casserole and cook for about an hour, then just mash lightly the lumps are still there but softer to eat. Also don't be scared by a bit of gagging, normally it is just them moving the food back to the front of the mouth for more chewing(honestly, check it out). My little boy will eat big bits of veg, adult type pasta, rice, etc and he is coming up to 8 months. He finds the stage 2 jars a bit too runny so we sometimes add pasta chunks if we need to when we are out and about.

Definitely offer lots of finger food as this is how they really learn to cope with the chewing as they control how much goes in their mouth.

My little boy can eat most fruits just cut into pieces, or in the case of a banana just broken in half, as well as bread and breadsticks and crumpets, and well loads, you get the picture.

Don't be scared, give it a go, you can always mash things more if you need to.

my fussy non lump liker will tolerate those tiny pasta shapes cooked and thrown into food so i am just increasing these till he gets more used to lumps.

Also giving lots of finger food gives them a taste of lumpy bits in their mouths so also helps

I'm having the exact same problem socan't help but would be interested in the answer!

my baby will eat lumpy jarred food but struggles when i make anything for her myself any1 any ideas? any recipes im getting desperate cos i feel like a failure giving jars all the time