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

Food Views

In food news last month, a Dallas restaurant critic who previously only presented herself as an avatar, outed herself and may regret it since now restaurants know who to Not serve. The critic is...

Hungarian Kalacz

My Grandma Breza called this bread roll “kalacz” (ka-loch), which means cake; this is a less sweet, eastern European version of a coffee cake. You can roll it with either a nut or poppy seed filling...

Breakfast for Dinner

Sometimes when you need a quick dinner and have eggs, you can either go for the fallback of breakfast for dinner, or spruce them up in a new egg recipe. I bought two tomatillos recently because...

Hushpuppies

One night when we were walking back from our cluster mailboxes – we do not get door to door mail service here (kind of un-American isn’t it?) – we ducked in to Vintage to have a small bite at the bar...

Vintage

The new restaurant, Vintage, opened on Main Street in New Market, MD, early September. I told you about it in July when they were still just a Farmer’s Market. It’s a local ingredient focused menu...

Caper Sauce

Happy Leftover Friday! Today is a great day for leftovers for anyone who hosted a big dinner yesterday; in some cases they’re even better the next day. A common theme for articles in cooking magazines...