New Chapter

Fed Up Foods was recently purchased by Carrie Stevens.  We are working on restocking and transitioning to new ownership.  We appreciate your patience during this time and are so excited to continue this mission!

Mission

Fed Up Foods is a woman-owned artisanal canned food business located in Eastern Wisconsin. We create clean, delicious, whole food products with unique flavor combinations. Fed Up Foods creates community development through collaboration and educates people on the movement toward a nutritious and resilient food system. We work with local and regional farms, employees, vendors, and customers. 

Creation Story

Fed Up Foods was founded in December of 2019 by the previous owner, Melissa Haack and close friend, Miranda, who left the business early on to pursue other dreams. The two worked together to get Fed Up Foods off the ground.

Melissa built a beautiful illustration of what she knew and continued to learn. It started with her bachelor’s degree from UW–Stevens Point, with a focus on natural resource policy, philosophy, and political science. Using that base of knowledge — and after a long bike ride around the U.S. and parts of Canada — she thought long and hard about how to fit the pieces of what she loved together to create meaningful change. That journey eventually led her to work at the Stevens Point Area Food Cooperative, where she dove deep into the local food movement in central Wisconsin through buying and managing the produce department. There, she gained invaluable experience in retail grocery and wholesale relationships — knowledge that later inspired the creation of Fed Up Foods.

During those years, Melissa spent her free time work-trading on farms in the summer. There, she noticed that less-than-perfect produce was often composted or “graded out.” Wanting to find a purpose for all of that beautiful but overlooked food — whether from farms, the co-op produce department, or her own garden — she set out to create shelf-stable products using whatever produce she could get her hands on. Having learned the basics of canning from her mother as a child (and with her mom only a phone call away), Melissa refined her food preservation skills and turned that passion into what became Fed Up Foods.

When Melissa finished a canning day and looked over a table of hot jars, listening to them “pop” and seal, she felt a deep sense of resilience, joy, and meaning. True to her nature, she magnified that feeling — writing down recipes, experimenting with new seasonal flavor combinations, and reimagining the classics to feature as many local ingredients as possible. What began in a small kitchen with a big idea grew into what became Fed Up Foods — a thriving small business rooted in creativity, sustainability, and community in Wisconsin.

 Why Fed Up?

People wonder...why Fed Up Foods? I think for a lot of us, the answer goes without saying but I explain more specifically below..

1. Fed Up about the food system, I'm angry.  There aren't a lot of options as a grocery buyer for organic and truly local products, which means there aren't many options for consumers either. Food gets wasted all throughout the supply chain, and people are going hungry all over! I know that one can't move a mountain overnight, but in my mind every jar is one step closer to a solution.

2. Fed Up like getting fed upwards and being full. There are so many foods that claim to be the answer to your problems, but are full of weird additives and ingredients that I can't pronounce or understand. I like the idea of being fed upwards as a way to feel really good about what you're eating and knowing the origin story of each ingredient.