My kids would only eat Motherly Cubes (frozen baby food) or food made myself!  They wouldn't eat jars.  My second would only eat food he could feed himself    Another great thing about Motherly Cubes is they come in separate flavours, making it easier to introduce foods, and they also have pureed peas & meat - very hard to do yourself.

I was recommended to start with vegetables first, cos some babies won't try them after the sweet taste of fruit.

I pureed everything we ate. The only time we would by it in jars was when we were out for the whole day. I think both have their advantages.

hi there i always made fresh vedgies i always made extra on a monday night say and put them in ice cubes in the freezer  made enough for the whole week so much cheaper and so convenient pop a couple of cubes out in microwave done baby's dinner sooooooo easy

and as for fruit well i bought that ? easier.

Absolutely start with veges first. Fruit is sweeter than veges and if they get a taste for something sweet they have trouble having veges etc after that.  I started my daughter with pureed potato first then after she got used to that I added pumpkin to it then was giving her different veges as she got used to the different tastes.  One thing with tinned/jar food is that you can't start them off with just one thing at a time meaning if bub had a reaction to something you wouldn't know straight away what it was.  I bought a jar of veges once for my daughter, it smelled bad and my daughter wouldn't eat it.  I bought the apples in a jar a few times, if we were travelling, she liked those.  I also bought the soy vanilla custard in a jar and she loved it.  When starting off it's best to give her home-made stuff so you know exactly what's going in it and start with one taste at a time.  It's also best to make it using water and without adding milk to it. Babies are used to blander foods, they have only had milk up until solids are starting, so they don't need it to have any extras through it like seasonings, milk, butter, etc.  Good luck and have fun with solids!