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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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The first time I had an avocado I was in my 30s and a friend in Ann Arbor put chopped avocado on a grilled chicken salad. It was amazing. After that I found out about guacamole, which is even more...
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A new food rating and comparison website launched today — Food Scores by the Environmental Working Group. You simply type in a food, for example you could enter “Frozen Sweet Potato Fries,” and...
Today we had visitors from New York that were in town for their granddaughter’s baptism. Luckily the mass wasn’t until 11:00 so they were able to have a nice, leisurely breakfast. Once in a while I...
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