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My purpose for this site is to learn to celebrate food by bringing families as much as possible back to eating right off of local farms, as cleanly and easily as possible, to ensure we’re eating real food and not stuff that has gone through an industrial process, been transported around the world, or been injected or covered with chemicals. I hope to do it in a way that creates pleasure in meals so food is a positive, beneficial, affordable, and joyful experience.
Documenting the process of how to change a family’s diet back to one based on real foods will:
- Show if we can do it and how, along with our other responsibilities. Our ancestors may have lived off the land, but maybe they were on farms, had stay-home parents, were way smarter, etc.
- Calculate the costs of eating the cleanest (additive-free) food possible.
- Share the learning process so other people can see how it will work for them, be affordable, why, and that they can start with the knowledge here and take a short cut to start celebrating real food in their own lives.
I hope to share a wide variety of recipes that I’ll modify – and simplify – to fit our new food rules and life, which may evolve as we live and learn. Eating is a daily occurrence so I intend to post a topic, recipe, or something for each day of our first year Getting Real.
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When it’s too hot to turn on the oven, here’s an easy peach cobbler to make on the grill. It’s also an excellent use of over-ripe peaches. Peach Cobbler on the Grill 6-8 ripe peaches, mostly peeled...
I had to post a sour dough bread recipe for people that don’t want their recipe long, confusing, and full of links to buy all the supplies, ads, videos, popups, and if-then statements that are harder...
Have you spent an hour making dinner only to have your family eat it in three minutes? Besides being a total drag it’s kind of disgusting. To celebrate food, we need enough time to taste and be...
We had a box of Orville Redenbacher microwave popcorn in the basement, and I was wondering if it was genetically modified corn. I checked the website one time and it said, “Exclusive...
I stopped at a tiny landscape nursery on the way home from work last spring to see if they had anything to feed my dying magnolia tree. I asked the guy working there what vegie plants he had because...
The American College of Sports Medicine releases the American Fitness Index in July, ranking America’s top 100 cities with healthy lifestyles. In 2024, Arlington ranked first for the seventh year in a...
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