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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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One time I was in the gourmet foods aisle at Marshalls, or maybe it was Home Goods, and I found a package of naturally colored Italian pasta shells. The pasta is colored with things like paprika and...
One time I bought this really pretty cookbook called Good Food Made Simple Vegetarian. I can’t remember when or where I bought it and never made anything out of it, but what I actually love...
There was a basket at the farm market full of what looked like giant radishes. Some of them were the size of softballs. The farmer said they were Scarlet Queen Turnips. She said they’re sweeter than...
My daughter needed green onions for one of her recipes and, while shopping for them and not knowing exactly what they are, my husband bought a bag of pearl onions. Plan B for the onions was a slow...
Last Saturday I wrote about what factory animals eat and this spring I’ll address the nutrients produce absorb from the earth. How these topics affect the quality of our food was addressed back in...
While I was still asleep this morning, Tony found a couple of recipes on a British website (BBC Good Food) for using up two over-ripe bananas to make pancakes. He combined them and used a conversion...
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