We starting with things like cutlets, steamed broccoli and carrot sticks, roasted pumpkin and sweet potato, beans. We never fed DD using a spoon, we would load the spoon up for her but she would always out it to her mouth. If it was ceral like weetbix, she could opt to use her hands or a spoon. Often she would just pick up a half mushy weetbix and munch away on it. I remember reading somewhere (I think) that if they cant coordinate it to their own mouth then they arent ready to ingest it iykwim so we just ran with that philosophy.