MenoPantry is a women-owned nutrition company in Portland, Maine, making real-food protein, fiber and plant nourishment for women in perimenopause, menopause and beyond.
The more women share this story, the less alone any of us feel in it. We’re grateful to the journalists helping to bring it into the open.
The Portland Press Herald profiles MenoPantry co-founders Kate Howe and Caitlin Hosmer, MS, RD/LDN, and the personal and clinical thinking behind Menomix — their protein, fiber and whole-plant smoothie mix for women in midlife. Kate spent most of her 40s with hot flashes, fatigue and sleepless nights, and built the thing she couldn’t find.
Kate Howe pitches MenoPantry on Maine’s statewide entrepreneur competition series, making the case for Menomix — protein, fiber and ten whole plants in one daily smoothie — and for treating midlife nutrition as a category of its own.
“We have careers, we have families — and now everything has changed.”Kate Howe, MenoPantry co-founder
Mainebiz covers the launch of MenoPantry and the business behind Menomix — a Portland, Maine company built by Kate Howe and dietitian Caitlin Hosmer to change how women eat in midlife, starting with one daily smoothie.
Eat Drink Lucky features a midlife nutrition and movement evening hosted by MenoPantry and Casco Bay Movers in Portland, opening with a tasting of Menomix smoothies.
A WGME segment on MenoPantry — Kate Howe and Caitlin Hosmer, MS, RD/LDN on the food-first thinking behind Menomix, and the nutrition education they build around it for women in perimenopause and menopause.
MenoPantry is a women-owned nutrition company founded by Kate Howe and clinical dietitian Caitlin Hosmer, MS, RD/LDN. Its flagship Menomix blends protein, fiber and diverse plants into a daily smoothie designed around the nutritional needs of women in midlife.
Kate spent most of her 40s with hot flashes, fatigue and nights that wouldn’t hold, and found almost nothing built for what her body actually needed. She started MenoPantry in Portland, Maine to build it — and leads the brand, its content and its community. Our story →
Caitlin has spent thirty years advancing the role of nutrition in clinical care, including heading outpatient nutrition at Boston's Brigham and Women's Hospital. She helped build the Dean Ornish Program for Reversing Heart Disease at Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center, served as Director of Clinical Programs at Wellspace, and practiced at the Osher Integrative Clinical Center within Mass General Brigham.
Her clinical interests are nutrition's relationship to gut, metabolic health, and inflammation. She helps turn complicated science into real-life habits for clients.
Now that she's navigating menopause herself, helping women through nutrition is even more personal.
For a long time, women were taught that midlife meant managing decline — shrinking down, holding on, making the best of it. We built MenoPantry around a different idea: that nourishment, not restriction, is what opens this chapter up.
If you’re working on a story about midlife women, nutrition, or what it looks like to actually thrive after 40 — we’d love to be part of it. Kate’s story is every woman’s story. Caitlin’s clinical depth explains the mechanisms behind it all.
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