Shell.. sent! I found over cooking rice and mushing it a little and then mixing that into his usual jar food the best thing. That way he was already use to the flavours and i just gradually increased the amount of rice i put in. Now he has the 7-9 month jars (though some chunks i mash a little as theyre quite big!). But dont stress to much if she coughs and gags the first few days.. he did that too.. think its just the texture. i then started giving him some vegemite toast. But would just break off little bits and put it in his mouth, otherwise if i gave him soldiers he'd shove the whole thing in. Also found that if i was eating it too, he would watch me chew it and then chew it aswell. But just do it gradually.. im getting more use to it now and he's ok at trying different things.. but found that rice thing the ice breaker.