Taster Tots
Raising Adventurous Eaters
Raising Adventurous Eaters
Our Mission
Taster Tots exists to cultivate adventurous eaters, eliminate mealtime meltdowns, and empower families to embrace healthy foods. We engage toddlers through sensory-driven play, while equipping parents through Tots to Teens workshops. Our online course paired with individual and group coaching ensures practical strategies become lifelong, nourishing family habits.
Join a fun workshop that turns mealtime meltdowns into positive food exploration! Through an interactive puppet show, kids go on a hands-on, sensory taste adventure to explore new foods and build positive associations with healthy eating. Parents get the essential Picky Eater Toolkit with practical, game-changing tips and tricks for managing resistance at home. Book a workshop today!
Join the Taster Tots team for an empowering workshop designed to transform your family's dinner experience from chaotic to calm. We look at the reasons why kids resist new foods and do a deep dive into the top 15 practical strategies that foster healthy eating habits. You will get expert insights into tips and tricks for creating enjoyable mealtimes for every age.
Welcome to the Taster Tots Intensive Program
Why Raise Adventurous Eaters? Picky eating is a prevalent challenge that children often do not simply grow out of; research shows these habits can remain stable from preschool through school-age years. Expanding your child's palate does more than just make dinner easier—it supports their cognitive and physical development by fueling a healthy microbiome and preventing malnutrition. It also improves sensory regulation and helps children develop lifelong independence around healthy eating- shifting them from parent-led feeding to healthy, child-led intuition and self-regulation.
The Taster Tots Approach We offer a comprehensive, 3-month dual-generation program designed for parents of tots to teens, with specialized child-focused components targeting the critical developmental window of ages 3 to 6. Our program focus is on both the child's experience and the parents' feeding practices.
Stage 1: Sensory Workshop & Parent Goal Setting
For the Kids: Our signature play-based puppet shows utilize evidence-based sensory desensitization. We guide children gently through the Exposure Hierarchy, helping them move step-by-step from refusing and tolerating a food, to interacting, smelling, touching, tasting, and eventually enjoying it. We talk about the food's fun properties—like its color, crunch, origin, or "superpowers"—rather than its nutritional value.
For the Parents: Caregivers attend an introductory workshop to establish specific, achievable mealtime goals for their household and choose a realistic first step.
Stage 2: The 3-Month Intensive Family Enrollment Through our online course and biweekly group coaching, we help parents shift the mealtime paradigm from control to connection. We teach you how to replace counter-productive feeding interactions—like pressure, restriction, and rewards— with lifelong tools that help your children establish autonomy at the table.
Community & 1:1 Support Caring for a picky eater can feel incredibly isolating. Our biweekly group coaching builds vital social capital, providing a psychologically safe space where parents can share mutual wins, learn from peers, and practice collective accountability.
Additionally, each family receives a dedicated 1:1 Strategy Session to customize interventions for your unique needs.
Join Us! Your journey to stress-free mealtimes starts here. When you enroll, you will receive our Picky Eaters Tool Kit, which includes a parent guide tip sheet, 100 Healthy Swaps, and 100 Lunch Ideas to help you transform your home food environment.
Marissa@PowersHealthAndWellness.com
AnneMarie@StrategiesForBetterHealth