Starting table foods with a one year old?

My son will be a year in 4 weeks and we just started giving him Gerber Stage 3 chuncky foods and will give him cooked noodles etc once and a while. We have waited a little longer trying new things as he is just now getting a tooth. My question is how did you transition from baby foods purees to regular table foods? Also what is a good age? He has one tooth poking through now so I have been slowly introducing different things. Once you switched from baby foods to regular foods, do they get regular 3 meals a day with snacks? And what did you give them for the meals and snacks? Right now we have tried cooked noodles and use the Gerber finger foods for snacks but once he hits a year I am going to try to transition to regular foods and wanted to know anyone else's experiences and how they did it and what they gave. I planned on asking our pediatrician but any input from other mommies would help, thanks!