We started a little after 6 months she was so interested in spoons and food and trying to take things off our plate. I remember at around 5mo. we put breastmilk in a bowl and fed it to her with a spoon because she was so excited about spoons. We started with Avacado, then Sweet Potato, I don't remember what we did next but I know I've got pictures of probably her first 10foods.

Depends on the child.

DD1 - around 5 1/2 months. She'd been reaching for my food for over a month, but I kept putting her off until she insisted. Um, first 5 foods were probably avocado, sweet potato, papaya, banana, oatmeal (real oatmeal, not the packaged baby mush). That was when I thought I had to give mush, so I chose foods that I could smash with a spoon at the table. This child also showed me that wasn't true, as she was only interested in foods she could hold and feed herself.

DS (twin to DD1) - about 6 1/2 months. He was less excited/interested than sister, so we started offering later. Probably about the same list of first foods.

DD2 - started giving her foods she could gum at around 4 months (large carrots, hard crackers, etc). Food was just play, she wasn't eating anything then. She fed herself quinoa at about 5 1/2 months; I'd given it to her so she could play while we ate and only realized she'd eaten a LOT with the next day's poopy diaper. First foods (besides the quinoa ): banana, oatmeal, stone fruits, rice, whatever she could steal off our plates.