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

Carrot Cake Mix

On my top ten never-buy processed food list is carrot cake mix. Besides partially hydrogenated oils (trans fats) and other chemicals, there are absolutely no carrots in it whatsoever. The “carrots”...

Empanadas

In case anyone wonders why I suggest my pie crust for the empanadas, I ran a little taste test today. I made half of the empanadas with a coconut oil pie crust, and half with a more traditional eggy...

Buttermilk Biscuits

These are easy biscuits to make when you want to use up buttermilk. I will add a tag to the site for buttermilk recipes to make it easy to search for them because if you’re buying buttermilk for a...

Protein: Fish and beans

Still looking for another way to use up the last of the cherry tomatoes, I came across today’s recipe which I modified from the October 2014 Cooking Light (pg. 26). It has two of the best sources of...

Scalloped Corn

Yesterday we talked about some of the issues surrounding overproduction of feed corn, and now I’ll make something yummy with non-genetically modified sweet corn. This is sweet field corn grown on a...

Feed Corn

Today I’ll talk more about feed corn and then tomorrow make something yummy with non-genetically modified sweet corn. Sweet corn is the corn that you buy at produce stands and supermarkets to eat and...