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

Indian Curry Recipes

A friend from India had the Dussehra festival at the beginning of October and invited my son and I to stop by on the way home and see her decorations and sample some of their foods. You can find most...

Parts & Labor

There’s a combination local butcher shop and restaurant in Baltimore called Parts & Labor, which someone at work recommended to Tony. Normally we wouldn’t drive that far to dinner but we made...

Starchy Vegetables

I feel really blessed to work at a company (Westat) that has a fitness center and a good cafeteria. You can make some unhealthy choices in the cafeteria, of course, but the majority of what they offer...

Salmon Pasta

The first time I was invited to dinner at my husband’s parents’, his mom made salmon and pasta. She said she was experimenting on us with something new, which struck me as funny for a first-time...

Larabars

The neighbors purged their garden late yesterday because they heard we were about to get our first freeze of the winter, which we did, and they gave us a nice crop of celery, leeks, and a variety of...

Caramelized Banana Bread

There was a fun article in the Post today about a local high school cooking class. There are 160 kids taking the class at this one school. Only two of the 13 schools in that county offer culinary arts...