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We did rice cereal for the first week, as per our Dr but cut it out after a week and tried avocados, bananas and gradually other fruits and veggies.

Oatmeal cereal at 4.5 months. Our pediatrician suggested starting with a cereal.

We waited until 6 months - his 1st food was sweet potato - he devoured it!

sweet potato at 6.5 months

Pears at 4.5 months. We did a few other fruits and veggies before we offered oatmeal. He's never had rice cereal.

Rice cereal (boo - she didn't poop for 4 days!!). Her first real food followed soon after to help with the poop issue, haha. It was pears!

Banana and butternut squash.

We're not starting solids until 6 months but ours will probably be rice cereal or oatmeal mixed with lots of breastmilk.

@Foodnerd81: roasted butternut squash because it was in season

ETA: IMHO, starting with rice cereal or oatmeal is unnecessary. But if you felt more comfortable with it I would personally grind my own oatmeal out of steel cut oats. Steel cut oats is more nutritious that rolled or quick oats because it's in it's more natural form. I used rolled oats for baking and steel cut oats for oatmeal. It's fairly simple if you have a grinder/food processer.
ETA2: We didn't do any meats until 9 months. I read that for a BF baby they are getting iron thru bm and their body has iron store from your womb that should last till around 9 months. So at that point it's more important to add meats and such for iron.

@Foodnerd81: we started with banana, followed by avocado and oatmeal (not oatmeal cereal, real whole oatmeal).

I picked banana because it was cheap and readily available, easy to 'prepare' and is supposed to be easy on tummies. I do BLW.
LO tried black beans this morning!

avocado , then banana, then sweet potato. we did all of those BLW style. We then switched to doing some purees and did those for about a month, maybe 6 weeks. Now we are doing just regular table foods- but I cut them up into tiny pieces for her (instead of the big pieces recommended by BLW). She was taking huge bites of things and it really freaked me out. She is pretty good with getting small bits of things into her mouth now. I help her sometimes, and obviously feed her when we are having soup, but she does well.

@Silva: I was JUST going to start my own thread about this! LO all of a sudden wants to feed herself (we've been doing purees) and last night I gave her BLW-style long pieces of banana. She took an ENORMOUS bite (shoved the thing as far back in her throat as it would go and bit down), then choked, sputtered, regurgitated it and i fished it out of her mouth. SO SCARY! How does that not always happen with BLW?

@JoJoGirl: yeah... That was what freaked us out about blw. I mean, I guess they move it around and then spit it out, and learn...but it was way too scary for me. She still gags on the little pieces, but at least I know they can't block her entire airway. I don't get that part of blw....one website was like, just give them a raw apple slice? It doesn't make sense to me. I know it works for people....but they are braver than me.

banana at 6 months

@skipper2010: I do both. I make most of my own baby food but buy pre-made for mango and other fruits that aren't in season. I also keep store bought sweet potato and squash on hand for when we are on the road.