We started my kiddo on puréed veggies/fruit around 5mo, but he lost interest really quickly and only wanted food he could feed himself by 6mo. So that's about when he started the little crunchy things you were asking about, along with pieces of soft fruits, whole grain breads, beans, steamed veggies. His favs were bananas, blueberries, pears, anything with beans or lentils, and those baby cheese crunchies.

We started at 5 months with green beans, then carrots, now bananas, and sweet potatoes. She gets tastes of all of our table food, but gets her baby food in those. Also no honey or high allergen foods!

From experience, I would do the friggen steamed veggies first because with fruit first they'll prefer the sweet over the veggies 🙄my son is like a fruit bat and eats all fruit but turns his nose up to MOST veggies 🤦🏼‍♀️

I fed my son everything besides milk and honey at 6 months. Anything I wanted to try just space it out so you can tell if he has a reaction!! Look up baby led weaning it's great :)