Tiny Visits DC + Sees Obamas

Yesterday I visited lots of hospitals around the DC metro area to let them know about Tiny Tastes! I had meetings at:
- MedStar Georgetown Hospital
- Howard University Hospital
- Children's National Hospital
- and several other clinics along the way

My main goal was to stop by and say hello -- I love meeting new people! The doctors, feeding therapists, nutritionists, and child life specialists with whom I met in DC were full of compliments and questions... they were all so interested to learn about the new Tiny Tastes app and how it can help their patients!

While I was at Children's National, I saw something very amazing happening. It was their holiday celebration event, and our First Lady Michelle Obama was up on stage with the children at the hospital! It's wonderful that she could spend some time there to bring something special to these children & families who are spending the holiday in a hospital.

After each of the app demos in DC, I showed the medical providers a new product that we are working on called Tiny Tastes PRO! This is a companion product to the Tiny Tastes app, and we'll be sharing more details about it soon. But the brief summary of Tiny Tastes PRO is that it will function as an online web portal where parents and medical providers will be able to instantly see a visual history of everything a child has eaten along with Tiny in the app (or not) over time. This allows caregivers to easily track a child's progress with certain textures, colors, or types of food, as their dietary intake expands over the course of weeks or months. 

As a result, we already have a few feeding therapy clinics signed up to be Beta Testers for Tiny Tastes PRO. This means that in 2015 they will get a period of free access to the online product while they give us feedback in return. This will allow us to customize the web portal for their clinical needs, while it provides them with a free glimpse into their patients' home dietary intake patterns to optimize their patient care plans. Parents will also love Tiny Tastes PRO, since it will eliminate the need for hand-written detailed "diet records" which can be tedious to keep track of. Instead, simply use the Tiny Tastes app and let us do the rest!

If you think your clinic may be interested in participating in the free Beta Testing program with Tiny Tastes PRO, we are forming a waiting list now so please contact us for more information about this opportunity.



Yours, 
Tiny

Visit us at www.tinytastesworld.com

Holiday Contest Entries

Have you entered Tiny's Holiday Contest yet?  These kids have!  And they are sharing their love for Tiny through their beautiful artwork.

Visit TinyTastesWorld.com to find out how you can win a kid's tablet in time for Christmas. 

Once you enter online plug in to the extra chances to win using your child’s artwork onFacebook, Instagram and Twitter! Plus -- when you share Tiny's contest post from herFacebook page to your own, you will get 1 EXTRA contest entry!  

Please use our hashtags when entering the contest with your child's artwork: #tinytastesworld#tinytastesapp #healthykid

Contest runs through midnight on December 18, 2014.

Brought to you by www.tinytastesworld.com

Kids Love Tiny

 

Here are more of our contest photos... so adorable! Thank you to all the parents who are taking the time to download Tiny's app and participate with their children in our contest. It's exciting for us to receive such positive feedback and see how much fun kids are having with Tiny!

Visit us at www.tinytastesworld.com

Tiny & Emily Meet Rachael Ray!

It was so much fun to be part of the live studio audience for a taping of the Rachael Ray show in NYC!

We began the experience by waiting in a long line out on the sidewalk in the wintery cold weather here... waiting for security to check our bags and go through an airport-security-grade scanner before we could enter the building.

Then almost 100 of us were waiting in a small "holding room" where we were shown a video of the episode clips that were shot earlier in the day. Apparently they film her show in shifts & chunks. Today was a makeover episode, and unfortunately the audience who was part of the first taping of the day only got to see the "Before" version of the featured woman who was receiving a makeover. Luckily for us, our audience group was the last shift of the day so we got to watch the Before footage while we were in the holding room... and then also experience the full transformation of the After reveal while we were in the studio as the rest of the episode was filmed in real-time with us. I hadn't realized that there could be more than 1 studio audience involved in the taping of a single episode of a show. If look closely at the audience, you may notice it sometime! 

And of course there was the cooking segment - Rachael showed us how to make a warming vegetarian meal, as well as how to prepare those fabulous kale chips that we see in the markets a lot now. It is actually really easy to bake them up at home, for a delicious & nutritious alternative to other salty snacks!

Today they were also filming an episode for an early-January showing already now too. For that segment, they had a panel of 3 experts join Rachael in her kitchen, one of each sharing their medical, nutritional, and financial advice for 2015. The nutritionist that Rachael invited to speak in this episode was actually Keri Glassman, who is someone who has written about picky eating. We wish we could have spoken with her, since she was right across the room there talking with Rachael and she would probably be VERY interested to hear about Tiny Tastes! But due to filming we didn't get that moment to talk. Ah well, maybe she will read our blog someday  :)

Tiny's Holiday Contest Is Here!

We have 2 words for you: FREE TABLET! 

We're celebrating the Holidays with a contest!! 

Visit www.TinyTastesWorld.com to find out how you can win a kid's tablet in time for Christmas. 

Once you enter online plug in to the extra chances to win using your child’s artwork on Facebook, Instagram and Twitter! Plus -- when you share Tiny's contest post from her Facebook page to your own, you will get 1 EXTRA contest entry!  

Please use our hashtags when entering the contest with your child's artwork: #tinytastesworld #tinytastesapp #healthykids

Contest begins today --December 1, 2014-- and runs through midnight on December 18, 2014. Winner will be notified via email on December 20, 2014.

Good luck!!

Want to Share Tiny Tastes with Your Patients?

These promo cards are just the right size -- 2-sided and shaped like business cards, they make it easy to let your patients know how they can find Tiny Tastes! 

We would be happy to mail you a stack of cards that you can keep in your office or clinic, so that they are on-hand when you want to let your patients know how they can download this helpful app to try it FREE! We've had Registered Dietitians, Feeding Therapists, and Pediatricians all get excited about how Tiny can help their patients have an easier time eating healthy new foods.

If you would like to receive these cards for your practice, please contact us to request them.

Visit us at www.tinytastesworld.com

Tiny Tastes Tutorial Video

Check out my new app!

Tiny Tastes is a lot of fun to use! Kids join me on all kinds of neat adventures inside the app, and become more likely to eat new things when they feed me the same food they are served at meals & snacks ... to see how much I like it first  :)

You can download Tiny Tastes for FREE on the App Store! 

Yours,
Tiny

Visit us at www.tinytastesworld.com 

A Holiday Contest?

I'm preparing a holiday contest to celebrate the season as well as the launch of our new tablet & phone platforms ... plus we also have some upcoming surprise items that will be featured in the app. You'll want to make sure you stay connected to our blog, website and our social media pages for more information. There's always exciting new things happening in Tiny Tastes World!

Yours, 
Tiny


Visit us at www.tinytastesworld.com

Bell Pepper Flower Power!

Sometimes children will try something new if it's presented in a pretty or unique way. I recently found this lovely breakfast idea and was excited to give it a try myself. The sweet red peppers are my favorites! You can turn Bell Peppers into pretty flowers for breakfast... or, with the holidays coming, the reds and greens also look like beautiful Christmas ornaments!



If age-appropriate, you can involve your child in the preparation of this lovely breakfast:

1) Cut peppers into 1/2 inch rings.
2) Place in lightly oiled skillet. 
3) Crack one egg in the middle of each ring, cover & cook until done. 
4) Enjoy your pretty and healthy meal!

Bell peppers have a lot of vitamin C and other nutrients in them. Pair with a protein packed egg to make fun, healthy & delicious food!

Yours,
Tiny

Visit us at www.tinytastesworld.com

App Map

My Tiny Tastes app was designed for young children, especially for those around 2-6 years old. We've heard great feedback from parents of children within a wide range of ages though.... 
Tiny Tastes is completely free to try, so give it a whirl!

Here you can see a little bit more about how the app is laid out and some of the activities that I get to share with children as they join me there:

Yours,
Tiny

Visit us at www.tinytastesworld.com