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

Sweet Potato Biscuits

Last summer my son spent a couple of weeks at an overnight camp that had a Parents’ Day — I told you a little about it back in July. We headed out there one Saturday for a potluck; I think we...

Carrot Soup

At the one-year-old’s birthday party that I went to this summer, the mom made a cold carrot soup to go with chicken salad sandwiches. I’ve been meaning to make it for a while, although I’d like the...

Creamed Spinach

It’s no surprise that spinach is a super food due to its rich dark green leaves. Previously I talked about the calcium and vitamin content, and Popeye loved it for its iron. Besides being a good...

Bean Bundles

I made these last Thanksgiving and was really surprised they were a hit. I kept hearing, “Please pass the bean packages,” so I was really glad I made them. I had been saving the recipe for years – it...

Vegetable Jambalaya

I’m still thinking about carving our pumpkin and making something with it, at least pumpkin seeds – but it has not moved up high enough on the priority list yet. Since we weren’t home for Halloween...

Omelets

The funny thing about having a B&B and making breakfast for others on the weekends, is that you can’t really eat breakfast in a restaurant anymore because you’ve made everything on the menu a...