I started my baby on organic brown rice. We mixed it with breastmilk and only used it for a week or so. We still have the mostly full box, 8 months later. I sometimes use it to thicken up a puree for her - but not even often enough to finish the box.

That being said, we do sometimes give sticky rice when my hsband has it with his meal. She also sometimes has whole wheat or potato flour bread, but not often. She doesn't eat dairy, soy or sugar. She eats mostly meat, vegies and fruit.

On that note. I think it's so odd how angry people get that you wont let THEM feed YOUR baby sugar. My mom responded positively, but then she didn't feed us sugar either. Almost everyone else asks us "why not" when we tell them she doesn't eat sugar - and so far, no one has replied when we explain, "oh, I thought she might be diabetic or something". So far, its just that they want to give her candy and think we are awful for not stuffing her with it.

My FIL is beside himself that he can't give her icecream and whatever he cooks.

Father In Law

We started my son on the brown rice cereal as well... then me (being the strongman/meathead I was) decided to try the oatmeal infant formula.

I got to pay the price and stay up burping and soothing a screaming baby the first (and last) day we ever tried that cereal. His gut just couldn't take it.

I first introduced my daughter to a variety of baby foods, though I dropped the cereal based ones early.  Banana puree was an early favorite, though she would eat all the fruit purees.  She also liked bacon and sauteed onions as soon as she got a couple of teeth around age 1.

My son has gotten tiny fragments of pulled pork so far.

I had no idea what pawpaw was, so I Gooogled it. It is the fruit of a North American tree. I worked on a farm when I was 14, worked in the produce department of 2 grocery chains (Wegmans in Rocester, NY & Publix in South Florida) after that.  How have I never heard of this fruit?   

Pawpaw and Papaya are not the same thing. Papaya are a tropical fruit of the Caricaceae family and Pawpaw are a temperate fruit in the  Annonaceae (granted one of the few temperates in this family as other members, cherimoya, ylang-ylang, etc. are all tropical).

The reason why you don't see them in the store is that they don't last long enough on the shelves to be commercially viable.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pawpaw

You really can't count on the common names for things. IMO, the scientific names for things is much more reliable thing to use. I really don't care for Carica papaya. And I have never tried Asimina spp. because it doesn't grow in my area.

people wanting to feed them sugar

Yeah tell me about it.  He JUST started eating some solids and a relative of his just asked to feed him pudding.