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

Roasted Acorn Squash

Usually I cut acorn squash in half and use the halves as cooking bowls, which I’ll do some other time. I got this recipe idea in my email from Real Simple and I thought I’d give it a try, even though...

Spaghetti Squash

It’s really fun to make spaghetti squash because it’s so amazing how spaghetti-ish it is inside the squash! It’s really a fun ingredient to cook with and the easiest thing to do with it is to dig out...

Caramelized Brussels Sprouts

One time I had some great Brussels sprouts at a restaurant, I don’t remember the name of it but it was a tapas place — where you order over-priced, appetizer-size portions of a wide variety of...

Broccoli Raab

Walking through the backyard the other day I suddenly realized the broccoli raab (rob) my daughter planted a few weeks ago is starting to go to seed/flower. I looked back in the blog to see what day I...

Blueberries

Blueberries get their color from the flavonoid class called anthocyanins. They contain 15 different types of these anthocyanins which are powerful antioxidants that are as strong in your frozen...

Applesauce

Applesauce at the grocery store, particularly those single-serving brands that go into kids’ lunchboxes, usually contain either sugar or fake sugar, such as Sucralose (like Splenda). Unfortunately...