Small Shapes,
Big Purpose
Cheeky pasta shapes, real veggie purée and ingredients parents can feel good about.
A simple, playful way to bring veggies to the table.
I made this pasta for my kids.
Now it’s for Yours!
Getting my kids excited for vegetables felt impossible. Funny faces on plates, hidden sauces, pep talks at dinner. None of it worked. I needed something veggie-packed, fun, and genuinely kid-approved that would solve dinnertime chaos at home.
Yet most “kids’ food” I found was full of unnecessary additives, just a sprinkle of veggie powder and marketing that promised more than it delivered. Meanwhile my kids kept asking for the same thing: plain pasta with butter!
That’s when it clicked: what if the pasta they loved could teach them to love veggies too? Not by hiding them but by making them part of the story. I decided to take matters into my own hands, rolled up my sleeves and created the kind of food I wished existed.
This is how Little Eaters was born.
Michaela de Maaijer
Founder, Pasta Lover & Mother of 3 Wild Boys.
Less pressure
fewer battles
More smiles
Our Not-So-Secret Agenda
Veggies don’t need to be a fight.
We are over the hiding, all that bribing and the dinner table battles. Veggies don’t need to be a fight. They just need a fun entrance. When they show up in ways kids love, they stop being “a thing” and kids start seeing veggies as something they can explore in all sorts of ways.
The best part?
The real win.
You get to skip the stress and enjoy the giggles, big bites, and maybe even a second helping. Because when mealtime feels good for everyone, it becomes more than just food – it’s a moment of connection.
And that’s the real win.
Fun for them.
Big veggie wins.
Peace at the dinner table
…until dessert negotiations begin!
Good pasta takes time. And we’re not in a rush.
No mass production. No shortcuts.
We make ours in small batches, with 100% Aussie veggies kneaded straight into the dough, premium durum wheat semolina from NSW, and traditional bronze dies for that rough texture that actually holds sauce (or butter!).
Then we slow-dry it for two days. From flour to pack, it takes four days. Pasta made the way it should be: wholesome, playful, and full of the good stuff.
Dinner is chaos
enough. This pasta makes it a little easier.
