I have found I only need to make the new vegie part of my children's "known" flavours by using sauce once or twice before they accept it. I know what you mean about disguising foods. I am soooo not into "hiding" vegies in other foods. My mother did that (put eggs in milkshakes for example) and when i discovered it I learnt not to trust her. So when I say I "use a sauce" it doesn't mean I drown the vegie in it. When i introduced broccoli to my toddler I just dropped one drop of soy sauce from one of those little fishes we got from our sushi hand rolls earlier that day... that's all it took... just a single drop of soy sauce. My DH can't stand over cooked vegies so that does kinda dictate things... I think it's a result of his own mother cooking them to complete stodge that turned him off them when he was at home. The only vegie I didn't really like was Brussels sprouts but DH (when we first met) served me a few that had been pan seared (slightly caramelised) and they were more palatable for me... now I can appreciate their flavour a bit better. Sometimes it just comes down to finding a different way of cooking them. Little kids also like salad vegies diced into small cubes and tossed together into a salsa. That's how we introduced them to radish. The cubes were not much more than 1 cm in size. The Pancake Parlour makes a very yummo side salad that is made this way. We went there when our DD was about 3yo and were amazed that she ate it all up even though it contained radish... we had a vegie garden at the time but until that point she refused to eat radish... after eating them the salsa way she decided she liked them afterall