co-founder · tandoco

Tommy

Chef & Baker · Minneapolis, MN

Tommy is the co-founder, chef, and baker of tandoco. He lost 150 pounds and built a Minneapolis-based weekly meal prep service and gourmet high-protein bakery around a single principle: healthy food has to taste incredible, or you won't stay consistent.

Background

Tommy spent years on the other side of the counter — eating poorly, gaining weight, and trying every restrictive diet before realizing the issue wasn't willpower. It was that the food in front of him didn't taste good enough to want again. The 150-pound loss came from a different premise: build food that tastes like the food you actually want, but engineer it for protein, fiber, and clean ingredients.

That premise became tandoco's operating manual. Every cookie, brownie, muffin, and meal on the menu has to clear two tests — does the macro math work, and is it something Tommy himself would order on a normal Sunday. If it fails the second test, it doesn't ship.

What Tommy makes

• tandoco's protein bakery — cookies, brownies, muffins, banana bread, and seasonal items at 20–40 g protein per portion, made from real whole ingredients, no protein-powder aftertaste, no artificial sweeteners.
• The weekly meal prep menu — fresh, chef-cooked entrees that change every week, designed to fit macro-balanced eating without feeling like a meal plan.
• Protein baking mixes — clean-ingredient mixes for customers who want to make tandoco's bakery items at home.

Areas of expertise

• High-protein and macro-balanced baking
• Weekly meal prep operations and menu design
• Clean-ingredient pastry (no artificial sweeteners, real butter and eggs)
• Sustainable weight-loss nutrition (lived experience: 150 lbs)

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Last updated 2026-05-01.