First foods after purées?

Question

My little guy takes his bottle and purées without problem, but I feel like we’re ready to move onto more solid foods. He’s 7.5 months and is a big guy, sitting and crawling and pulling himself up to stand on whatever he can get to. 
I’m super scared of him choking. He gets his solids when I’m home with him alone, since my husband gets home just in time for bedtime. 
What are good first foods that you’ve tried? Should I try mashed chunky foods on spoon first? 
I know the BLW principle of pinky-sized foods, but all I picture is my LO taking a chunk off and lodging it in his throat. 🤦‍♀️
I’ve tried googling, but there are SO many resources out there! I’d love to know what you guys started with.

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I hadn’t given my LO any solid foods besides purées but she just seemed so uninterested in them :/ So this past weekend I tried peanut butter toast and she loved it! Cut the toast into strips and cut off the crust, then spread a thin layer of PB. I think she loved being able to use her hands and interact with the food. She would just gum the bread until it was soggy - a couple times she managed to kinda bite off a good size piece, but it was so soggy that I wasn’t truly worried. Just kept a very close eye on her. 
This weekend we’re going to do that again, plus also try banana pieces and maybe eggs if I feel adventurous. Lol. Just go with your gut and have fun!

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So I was terrified of choking too, but so far my son does well with small pieces of scrambled eggs, pancakes, dissolvable baby crackers, strips of toast with PB, long curly types of pasta, strips of thinly sliced cheese, and banana. 
I find super small chunks are really difficult for him to pick up, so if we are doing small tiny pieces and he's struggling I will help him out. I will say the long strips seem to work best for his grasp and so far he hasn't even really gagged on anything. I do only put tiny amounts on his tray at once since he seems to cram a lot of stuff in. He gets one piece of food at a time and when he's done I put on another. 
It's scary but do your research on best first finger foods! I spoon fed him a few mashed foods before we jumped into it since he was only used to purees.

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We’ve done lots of different things: toast with hummus or peanut butter, Greek yogurt, raspberries, strawberries (pick a bigger one and just cut the green part off and let her gnaw on the strawberry), butternut squash, spaghetti squash, Bamba peanut butter snacks (she LOVES these and they are easy to pick up and dissolve in her mouth and are great for peanut butter exposure), chickpea pasta, bananas, avocado, eggs (scrambled or omelette “fingers”), etc. Just pick up anything you can squish easily between your fingers and cut into finger size. Babies gag, it’s part of the learning process. This might sound weird but I read that if they’re turning red and making audible, good coughing noises, they’re gagging.  If they’re turning blue and making no sound or small, ineffective coughing noises, they’re choking. Follow @newwaysnutrition on Instagram, she’s a baby/toddler dietician and always had great posts on how to feed babies using BLW!

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Literally the only thing we've pureed is fruit 😂
He eats toast, egg, pancakes, peppers, fish cakes, mince, mashed potato, carrots, cheese, banana... Pretty much whatever we have 🤷‍♀️ we've not tried flaky foods yet (like sausage rolls), because I'm not too sure about those, but otherwise I give him pretty much anything.

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I’ve done some shredded cheese and that was okay. I also gave her some baked French fries that I made for dinner one night and she did okay with those. 
I’m also super petrified of her choking so I only do it when my husband is home because he’s an emt. But we’re slowly working our way into it

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He’s had strips of banana and a couple plain rotini noodles. Eggs and avocado are next up on our list. Small things are too hard to grasp at this age so I like things that are easily mashed in his fingers or mouth.

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I’ve tried banana, scrambled eggs, and little pieces of avocado he loves it!

First foods after purées?

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