diff --git a/CHANGELOG.md b/CHANGELOG.md
--- a/CHANGELOG.md
+++ b/CHANGELOG.md
@@ -1,6 +1,11 @@
 Changes
 =======
 
+Version 0.10.0.3
+----------------
+
+Better handle the situation when there are no ingredients to run
+
 Version 0.10.0.2
 ----------------
 
diff --git a/Test/Tasty/CmdLine.hs b/Test/Tasty/CmdLine.hs
--- a/Test/Tasty/CmdLine.hs
+++ b/Test/Tasty/CmdLine.hs
@@ -12,6 +12,7 @@
 import Data.Proxy
 import Data.Foldable
 import System.Exit
+import System.IO
 
 import Test.Tasty.Core
 import Test.Tasty.Ingredients
@@ -45,9 +46,10 @@
   let opts = envOpts <> cmdlineOpts
 
   case tryIngredients ins opts testTree of
-    Nothing ->
-      putStrLn
-        "This doesn't taste right. Check your ingredients — did you forget a test reporter?"
+    Nothing -> do
+      hPutStrLn stderr
+        "No ingredients agreed to run. Something is wrong either with your ingredient set or the options."
+      exitFailure
     Just act -> do
       ok <- act
       if ok then exitSuccess else exitFailure
diff --git a/tasty.cabal b/tasty.cabal
--- a/tasty.cabal
+++ b/tasty.cabal
@@ -2,7 +2,7 @@
 --  see http://haskell.org/cabal/users-guide/
 
 name:                tasty
-version:             0.10.0.2
+version:             0.10.0.3
 synopsis:            Modern and extensible testing framework
 description:         Tasty is a modern testing framework for Haskell.
                      It lets you combine your unit tests, golden