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

Hungarian Palascinta

In food news today, Nestle is going to remove food coloring from all of its chocolate candy products – like Butterfinger’s red 40 and yellow 5 – by the end of this year due to consumer...

Cholesterol and Tacos

I should have kicked off my mayo post (because of the egg yolk) with the news from last week that the Agriculture and Health and Human Services Departments said in its preliminary recommendations that...

Mayo

Today I made mayo for the first time and am totally floored with how easy and quick it was to make. I can’t believe I’ve been buying mayo all these years, most of which has added sugar, salt, and...

Lunch Meat

I briefly touched on the carcinogenic sodium nitrite treated cold cuts from the deli counter. If you’re still buying deli meats then you can stop when you run out of your current supply. Other options...

Hungarian Chicken Noodle Soup

Once in a while Tony reminisces about the time everyone in the house was passing around a sickness. I don’t know how long we went with at least one person being sick, until at one point three people...

Beet Red Velvet

Happy Valentine’s Day! One time Tony and I were talking about our favorite old diners and he mentioned one and said, “They had the best red velvet cake.” I never had red velvet cake before our...