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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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Happy Christmas Eve! I hope you are not scurrying about trying to finish shopping, wrapping, or cooking, or at least are doing so in good cheer and not desperation. I had many desperate Christmases...
Finally I have a friend at work that likes to lunch at some interesting and foodie-type joints once a while – it only took me 12 years to find someone. This is the same person that accompanied me to...
One of the downsides of industrial agriculture is the elimination of variety of species. The supermarkets sometimes carry only one type of produce item (like carrots), and at most 3-4 apples...
Today I made dip as planned, with leftover ingredients from other things we’ve had lately; you can combine any similar ingredients as substitutes. A lot of cheeses can replace the goat cheese – even...
I haven’t made my chicken paprikas in a long time but the chicken has been waiting in the freezer. You have to have it with dumplings so I’d best cover dumpling-making in preparation. In Hungarian...
It struck me yesterday that anything we perceive as difficult is very easy to people who already know how to do it. So, many of the things you know how to do and think are easy, are actually difficult...
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