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Well, my LO is 6.5 months old. We started eating solids around 5.5 months because she was actively trying to take our food. At a lactation club meeting, she tried to grab a grape and even the LC was like, "Oh, she is definitely ready for solid foods."

We started with oatmeal cereal and then branched out to sweet potatoes and went on from there. We typically introduce a new food in the afternoons and then I send foods she has already had to the sitter's. We would do foods she's had for dinner and then we usually introduce a new food like this: 1-just new food, 2-3-new food with oatmeal cereal. We've started mixing foods that she's had together and she loves it. She hasn't really met a food she hasn't liked, but there are foods she obviously likes better. I don't feed her the same thing over and over again because I think she likes the variety. Nowadays it's better because she has a few things to choose from.
Her schedule will be like this: 6 a.m. nurse, 9 a.m. bottle, 11:30 solids, 12:30 bottle, 3:30 bottle, 5:30 solids, 6:45/7 nurse and bed.

I've always let LO eat unlimited vegetables, but have limited grains/fruit/dairy/meat. That's just my personal decision based on the type of diet I would like our family to be eating, but I totally agree with @SEATTLEMOM that babies know when to stop eating.

I have an almost 9 month old, and we're kind of hit and miss with the food. Pretty much whatever it is, I let her eat as much as she wants. She always has food after breastmilk, so it's not usually very much, although once in a while she'll down an entire pouch of puree. We do mostly baby led weaning, and sometimes it's hard to say what ends up in her tummy and what ends up on the floor... I only feed lunch and dinner, and even lunch is sometimes very little solids if we're out and about.

DD is 8 months and we are still trying to figure that out. In general, she loves eating and will eat just about anything you put infront of her, now that she can pick things up and feed herself (for the most part, we are still learning.) We have to watch her super closely because she will take bites that are too big and will choke (and it is terrifying when it is a for real, can't breath at all choke.)

We always give her either the puffs, mum-mums or yogurt bites we got her or bits of our food. She may get a "lunch" when I eat but she almost always gets some kind of dinner. Admittedly as a way to occupy her while we eat and make sure she gets some real food and not just the puff/mum-mum/yogurt go-to's.

I usually keep offering until she seems not interested- not openin her mouth so quickly, throwing things off the side of the tray, looking around instead of at me or her tray. Since she eats mostly fruits and vegetables I don't really worry about it being too much. There are things I will cut off- she eats an entre pear and I won't cut into a new one for her, I won't give her more than half an avocado (haha because I want some too!), and I really really limit banana because she gets constipated easily. I also limit her yogurt because I think she would just keep going!

We do mostly blw so she automatically stops when she's done, so I just watch for her cues when I'm spoon feeding her. I take a pretty laid back approach and trust her, in general. She's been a really good eater since we started solids at six months.

@looch: good point- I nurse first and keep those feedings pretty regular, so I feel like the solids are supplementing, not replacing. If they were replacing solids I'd worry more about nutritional balance.