You have gotten alot of responses but I thought I would share my experience with you

I started DD close to 6months of age, but she wasn't very interested. I still kept trying her every day. She was 7.5 months old and still not eating any solids (and looked a little slimmer), so I took her to a clinic nurse. She asked me how many bottles of formula she was having. At that stage it was 4 during the day and 2 at night. That was the problem. She was having too much milk and so wasn't hungry enough for solids. So we slowly cut out her night time bottles (one at a time), and at 8months old she finally took to solids.

My DD also hated farex or any sort of rice cereal (don't blame her actually), so we gave her pumpkin to start with and went from there.

Good Luck with it