Out little guy has been "eating food" for a week now, and so far is loving it. We wanted to go the "baby led weaning" route of giving just whole foods to chew on, but our daycare is more comfortable with mush, so we decided to do a mixture of both. We'd hoped he'd just have mush at lunch with daycare, and whole foods with us, but it turns out the little guy loves his mush as much as chewing on large pieces of broccoli.....so we now do both for him!