Real Food Forever

Real Food Forever

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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.

Latest Blogs

Penzys

  Penzys (without an apostrophe) is a spice company out of Wauwatosa, Wisconsin, that has stores in 29 states. My mom turned me on to Penzys because there’s one near her that she likes and she...

Singapore Stir Fry

Daydreaming lately about taking an exotic vacation, a cooking class or, better yet, a cooking class on an exotic vacation, I was intrigued by a recipe that I cut out from the April/May 2012 Vegetarian...

Rachels

Here’s a quick dinner or weekend lunch idea for grilling some sandwiches that include some of our homemade fixings. You’ll want sauerkraut that is not chemically fermented, so pick it up at a large or...

Fast (and Real) Food

Once in a great while you’re on a road trip or rushing around town feeling starved and tempted to get fast food. Hopefully you have a decent option for a fast and inexpensive meal. Even though it’s...

Thousand Island

The Thousand Islands run up between Ontario and New York, so there are Canadian islands and American islands. The dressing dates back to about 1900 when it’s likely a fishing guide’s wife made it as a...

Firestones

  I’m sure no one’s counting but me – yesterday was my 300th day in a row of blogging on real food topics and recipes. Hurray! Tonight we went out to dinner to a place called Firestone’s Culinary...