When we started solids at 5.5 months I felt like the entire day was spent feeding, preparing food, cleaning up after food and then dumping the food (via nappy) down the toilet

(oh and doing all that around his naps times). I started to think my child would be mentally and physically under-stimulated as there was zero time for playing left! Two months on and although still giving milk then solids an hour later I have (somehow) found time to play with him, and we even get out the house to go to play group, visit nana, the shops and park. Juggling it all does get easier with some time and practice.
It's also handy to have a few things in the fridge or freezer that you can take out as a picnic. Today I wasn't sure we'd be home in time for DS's evening meal or not so I put some frozen home-made pancakes (recipe c/o lemonthyme aka mamacook and adapted with my own mix of fruit) in a tub and some dried figs in another. By the time he needed to eat the pancakes had defrosted and went down a treat. I don't think dried fruit needs chilling as such and it was just in an air tight container. It also helps if you balance out LOs meals over a full day or week, so for example it didn't matter that his evening meal was fruit and carbs based because he had a vegetable and black eyed beans stew at lunch time and porridge and fruit for breakfast.
I promise it will get easier, you'll be a dab hand at it before long.