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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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I told you about Hedgeapple Farm one time but I finally got back out there today and took a couple of pictures for you. We were talking with the cattle farmer, Scott, about farmer’s markets and he...
We hired this woman recently where I work, and I noticed as soon as I met her in her interview that she had perfect skin. I thought it might be weird to ask her right away how she got such it, so I...
One thing our culture really loves is junk food rewards. When a group is doing well at work, someone brings in donuts or cupcakes. The worst is when you send your kid to school with a healthy lunch...
Here is another Hungarian recipe. City chicken does not have chicken in it, but it’s shaped like a chicken leg. My theory is that since country people have chickens, city people have to create chicken...
One way to get a steady supply of seasonal produce is to join a CSA (Community Supported Agriculture). You partner with a local farm and purchase “shares” which entitle you to weekly food...
A Harvard psychology professor, Dr. Anne Fishel, just released a book called Home for Dinner where she gives tips on creating fun family dinners and discusses research that shows shared meals increase...
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