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FWIW, my LO2 just wasn't super into solids until 9 months. I was getting worried and frustrated and then it was like a switch flipped. So maybe just wait a bit longer. Or, some of the solids are when LO might not be hungry yet. You could just offer solids every 3 hours or so and then follow it up with a bottle immediately. So every feed is a solids, bottle combo but they are spaced out better. Theoretically LO will slowly up solids and the bottles will get smaller and smaller.

Hmm... a lot of solids that are ok for young babies aren't that calorie dense compared to milk, so maybe focus on things with protein or carbs? At that age we'd introduced chicken, fish, and bread with a minimum of additives. I think DD was eating yogurt with cereal too. She did have a lot of trouble with solids because she wanted to feed herself and that limited what we could give her. It's better now at ten months, she still doesn't like purees but will eat them at least once a day.

My daughter is almost 9 months. This is what her meals for the day roughly look like:
7 am- nurse
8:30 am- breakfast, fruit, sometimes toast, yogurt, or egg whites
9:30 am- nurse
10 am- snack, fruit, sometimes yogurt or puffs
11:30 am- nurse
1 pm- lunch, all finger food (carrots, broccoli, green beans, banana, avocado, tortellini, black beans, yams, rice, spaghetti, cheese, strawberries, zucchini, watermelon, etc)
3 pm-nurse, and snack, fruit, maybe yogurt or freeze dried fruit and veggies
5 pm- nurse
6 pm- dinner, all finger foods, whatever we're having cut into pieces if she can have it
8 pm- nurse to sleep

She won't tolerate purées anymore, and yogurt is about the only thing she's ok with us spoon feeding her. She's on the small side as well, so I try to give her lots of options to choose from.

Definitely some high calorie foods- whole milk yogurt maybe with sun butter stirred in, avocado, tortellini, etc. Also maybe some soft finger foods/ puffs? Trying having LO snack a little before taking a bottle. My DD would never eat if she had milk first.

@2PeasinaPod: I was a but worried when we first started solids, because she was doing some gagging and still nurses so often. But she seems to really enjoy eating, likes slmost all foods, and stopped gagging for the most part after a while. I also think she's just a snacker, and she'd want a lot of bottles if she was on formula, just as she nurses a lot now.

I found solids really picked up around 9 months. She gained a ton of weight with the introduction of solids and by a year she went from 10th percentile to 40th. She loves her food. At that age we did a ton of fruit, steamed veggies pieces of soft meat. Lots of stews and soups with a chunky puree. We added homo milk in around 11 months and it took a while but she now LOVES it.