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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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It finally struck me that coconut oil in its raw form (un-melted) is almost the same consistency as shortening, so I should use it in pie crusts. Pie crust recipes are almost always insufficient to...
This is the weekend I thought I was going to provide a video of Nona making her lasagna with her sister, Sylvia, visiting from Italy. I promised back in June to do an interview with the Italian...
For the first time I attended a birthday that had a fruit cake – not a fruitcake, but a cake made only out of fruit. It was for a child’s first birthday. I’ve met a few mothers over this past year...
Especially if you have rainbow chard and want to use those beautiful stems, here is a creamy chard pasta comfort food for the next day after you make yesterday’s chard soup or anything that calls for...
You can see that chard is a superfood by looking at it and noticing the super dark green leaves, and once you know it is a member of the beet family (but without an edible bulbous root), it becomes...
When I first heard about eating raw oysters in college, someone told me that you’re supposed to swallow them whole. It seemed kind of pointless to me to eat them because if you’re not going to chew...
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