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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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Since we’re working all day, I don’t have time to plan meals last-minute. I used to get home and look in refrigerator, then try to figure out what to make for dinner. Switching to real food meant some...
In an effort to cut back on factory beef and start buying only grass-fed beef from a local farm, I discovered www.eatwild.com. The Eat Wild site provides information on the benefits of grass feeding...
To get ideas on where to find real food near you, www.Localharvest.org provides maps and information. You can find things like farms, stores, farmers markets, restaurants, butchers, CSAs, and co-ops...
Yesterday I brought the bread maker up from out of the basement and dusted it off, looking forward to fresh bread and filling the house with that wonderful aroma. Bread machines take practice because...
I thought of making Italian Cake for Nona but my best one has two cups of sugar and she doesn’t like overly-sweet American desserts. I had two pints of blueberries from a buy-one-get-one sale, and got...
The Sunday I moved from Michigan to Maryland to start a new job on Monday was an eventful ride. I drove straight through as far as Hancock, Maryland, just over the Pennsylvania line, then drove...
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