Wholesum. Our story

Founded in 2016, Wholesum is an online tool that helps streamline group menu planning: Manage dietary restrictions, generate shopping lists, and scale recipes to meet your group size. We've served users from various sectors: outdoor education, rafting, sailing charters, B&Bs, ranches, retreat centers summer camps, and personal chefs.

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By the numbers, from the heart

10 years

250+ clients

500,000+ meals

10 years

Meet the humans behind Wholesum

We love to eat, so food is often on our minds. From two very different worlds - outfitting camping trips and childhood nutrition - we found a common link: planning meals for large and varied groups is difficult. It takes time to plan, shop for, and prepare those meals, and wasted food is not only a drain on the bank account, it also takes a toll on the systems that grow, process, supply, and dispose of it.

Grace and John knew there had to be a better way than messy spreadsheets and endless calculations. So they set out to build a tool that takes the stress out of planning meals for groups.

Instead of a flashy front-end, they focused on a quiet engine that handles the hard stuff. The result is Wholesum—built to make meal planning easier, lighter, and even a little fun.