Picky eating support for early childhood settings
25-40% of kids are selective eaters. For autistic kids, it’s up to 76%. Our mission is supporting these children, their families, and the educators and health teams working with them.
Company news
Easy Bites are fellows of the Georgetown University Thrive Center for Children, Families, and Communities. Read the Forbes article here.
Our founder, Natalia, is speaking on “Feeding kids with sensory differences or neurodivergence” at the National Head Start Conference - May 5, 2026
May 4-7, 2026
July 2026
Georgetown Thrive Center Webinar on Behavioral challenges and mealtimes. Details coming soon.
20 August 2026
Our founder, Natalia, is speaking at the CACFP virtual summit on “Neurodiversity and Feeding Challenges in Early Years Settings. Details and registration here
You’re going to spend that time anyway - the question is how:
Reactive - today
🔥 Re-regulating a dysregulated child
🔥 Managing mealtime meltdowns daily
🔥 Escalating to specialists with no data
🔥 Repeating the same difficult moments
🔥 Educator burnout + high turnover
Proactive - with Easy Bites
✓ Fewer behavior incidents at mealtime
✓ Educators know what to do at red flags
✓ Concerns flagged before they escalate
✓ Less time firefighting, more time teaching
✓ Lower stress, higher confidence
What Easy Bites gives your program
Help on demand
Educators access guidance in the moment they need it — not when the specialist next visits
Understand the why
On-demand training helps educators recognize when food refusal, rigidity, or anxiety are neurodevelopmental signals , not defiance
Zero-effort compliance
HSPPS documentation — training logs, family engagement records, triage audit trails — generated automatically as you work.
Spot concerns early
Standardized assessments replace guesswork with a consistent, documented risk threshold across all classrooms
Bridge home and classroom
Shareable, personalized resources align what families are doing at home with what's happening in the classroom.
Smarter referrals
Roughly 25% of feeding referrals are premature. Data-backed triage means specialists see families who truly need them.
What’s inside the responsive feeding toolkit
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8 Classroom guides
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12 On-demand trainings
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600+ parent resources
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Feeding assessments
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Dietitian access
Easy Bites supports automatic reporting for:
Staff training. On-demand modules that count toward annual personal development requirements in early childhood settings.
Health documentation. Triage audit trails and feeding risk records produced as a byproduct of daily use. No extra data entry for your Health
Manager.Family engagement. Family resource sharing and engagement tracking, with documentation generated automatically.
GDPR, FERPA, HIPAA, COPPA compliant
Built in compliance
Created by feeding professionals
Natalia Stasenko
Founder, Pediatric Registered Dietitian, and mom of three
Natalia specializes in responsive feeding, picky eating, and feeding children with sensory differences and neurodivergence. She is a Georgetown Thrive Center Innovation Fellow and her work is grounded in the latest feeding research, and her experience working with families and early childhood programs.
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What Early Childhood Professionals are Saying