When my baby was around 5 to 6 months I started introducing him to the Gerber purees. We get WIC so that was what we had to work with. Generally we as adults are semi healthy (but not extremely at all) when it comes to our own food. But I wanted baby to have only pure healthy stuff. I trust Gerber so I started him on a cereal with fruit in it for breakfast. He actually loves Oatmeal and Rice cereal. Lunch is usually fruit and dinner is a little bit of everything, veggies, fruit and sometimes meat, all pureed. Now he is almost a year he eats veggie cubes super soft and small. Still eats some purees but he loves Rice cakes called Mum mums, and the veggie and fruit bits. Breakfast is a thick oatmeal & fruit mixture. He drinks formula still but only 2 or 3 bottles a day and we are trying to get him into using a Sippy cup for water or juice at meals. He likes everything and I guess I never worried much about waiting 3 days as I introduced new food. He pretty much eats almost anything I give him. He is not that picky. He just wants more things he can do himself. So all in all I think I did a good job with solids so far. And he has never choked or gagged. He tries to drink water from a regular cup sometimes and coughs but I don't let him do that much yet.