Polaris, TigerLady and Shiv, thank you all for the suggestions! I cobbled together a mixture (mixed chopped onions and peppers with the meat, some breadcrumbs and egg, and a dash of Worcestershire sauce) and cooked them and good god I am amazed, they were really really nice.
Adam seemed to like them, he ate most of his, and Chris (husband) loved them, he said they tasted professional.
So I now have 4 burgers in the freezer as well. Oh and TigerLady, thanks for the tip on them shrinking, I've never made burgers before so I didn't know.
Will have to try lamb burgers sometime, too. I love lamb but rarely buy it for some reason.
Jo, Adam has mixed feelings on pasta, I'd say he is halfway between George and Sophia - sometimes he eats quite a bit, other times he just - doesn't. I usually make it with creme fraiche and veg, simply because it's less messy than with a tomato-based sauce. Apart from lasagne, which is done the traditional way. Actually Adam does seem to prefer lasagne to other pastas, think he likes picking up a chunk. Though he has no problems handing other shapes now, but some are easier than others, think spirals are better than penne, for example.
Eldar, welcome! I hear you on the fitting in meals thing - it gets better when they drop milk feeds, for sure. Adam usually takes a bottle (as much as he is going to have of it, sometimes all sometimes not) in about 5 minutes now, so that's less of a chunk of the day gone. And I have to say, meals in the beginning took a long time, Adam was a slow eater till his skills picked up, and we could go on for 45 mins sometimes; also his "I'm done" cues were hard for me to read to start with, but now it's pretty clear!
We don't have absolute set mealtimes, it all depends on what time Adam gets up. We have breakfast about 30-60 mins after his first bottle, which is about 10 mins after he gets up. Lunch is usually something snack-like, and this is the meal I am happy to have while out and about, we bring sandwiches, fresh and dried fruit and ricecakes spread with whatever. Dinner is a cooked main meal and anything between 6.45pm and 8pm, though I try to make it as early as I can. In the beginning we just had one meal a day, usually breakfast, and if he was awake when we were having dinner he'd have bits of veg with us. We quickly moved to 3 meals a day as he started to be very upset if he saw us eating when he wasn't!
Oh and congratulations Sun and Bun on the breakthrough!