Prime Highlights
- Autumn Cullen created Whole Story Meals to provide whole-food nutrition in the form of freeze-dried food to tube-fed patients.
- She got her concept from her daughter’s illness and the free-spirited lifestyle of her family.
Key Fact
- Whole Story Meals produces over $1 million in yearly sales from highly nutrient, powdered feeding products.
- Food is produced using 100% real foods with no artificial ingredients and no added sugars.
Key Background
Nebraska mom Autumn Cullen created Whole Story Meals, determined to give her daughter, Story Grace, a healthier, easier-to-feed alternative. Story is legally blind and deaf and is fed only by tubes. Cullen was fed up with the artificially processed, high-sugar commercial formulas and created something that replicated home-cooked nutrition—without the bulk and liability of spoilage.
With cold-press and freeze-drying technology, Whole Story Meals preserves almost all the nutrients in foods like fruits, vegetables, grains, and proteins. What they keep is shelf-stable, powdered food easy to prepare with water—perfect for adventure families like Cullen’s, who travel and hike frequently.
The company produces Original, Plus, and Pediatric formulas to meet different nutritional requirements. They are gluten-free, dairy-free, soy-free, and vegan in certain contexts. The formula has an exact 100-calorie dose per scoop so that calories and fluids can be easily tracked. The powders are well-blending for bolus or tube pump administration and can be thinned to different consistencies based on the patient’s need.
While conventional enteral nutrition products are usually over 50% ingredients that contain sugar like maltodextrin, Whole Story Meals is comprised entirely of real foods. Its mixtures naturally include fiber, healthy fats, prebiotics, and probiotics that support enhanced digestion, immunity, and overall wellness.
Now, Autumn Cullen’s work supports thousands of U.S. families one proud, healthy, convenient option for the tube-fed. It’s not just a product—it’s a movement powered by love, health, and accessibility. Cullen’s own motto, created out of necessity for her daughter, is still the company’s motivation: “Feed me real.”
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