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

Meatless Menu Day

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Lobster Tails

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Csirke Paprikas

One thing Grandma showed me but I never exactly mastered, was cutting up a whole chicken into parts. I’m always relieved when I find a farmer that is selling the chicken cut into its parts; then I buy...

Dirty Bird

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(In)humane Seizure

Last week I received my annual calendar from the humane society and the envelope to send in this year’s donation. I used to think it was a great cause to help spay and neuter all the cute puppies and...

Hash Brown Casserole

Since I need another day to assemble my photos for a longer report on a visit to a local farm accused of animal abuse, today I’m going to share a potato and mushroom recipe. This recipe is based on a...