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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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Another food revelation came after our oldest daughter had attention deficit hyperactive disorder (ADHD) and I read that there was a link between sweetened foods, preservatives, artificial food...
Most people understand that you are what you eat, but it still usually takes an awakening incident to incite diet changes, especially since you can’t see most chemicals and unnecessary...
Getting back in the food blog saddle with a nice post-election/tractor commentary (below) from a local farmer, Danny Rohrer. As Danny predicted, Sonny Perdue (not related to the poultry company) was...
There are still plenty of issues to cover including cooking topics like fermentation and bread starters, and real food issues such as artificial sweeteners, supplements, soy, nightshades, bees...
One of government’s most important jobs is to protect its people against foreign and domestic threats. The food industry is a domestic threat. But if the government tries to intervene to stop the...
If you ever saw Bugs Bunny, you know about the long, lacy green tops of carrots that give you a handle to pull them out of the ground (unless the wildlife ate them). I used to compost the greens...
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