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

Backyard Composting

Food scraps and yard waste currently make up 20 to 30 percent of what we throw away, and should be composted instead. Making compost keeps these materials out of landfills where they take up space and...

Pepper Relish

While many articles say that you don’t need sugar in canning, almost all of the recipes have sugar. I wanted to use up all of the sweet peppers from Full Cellar Farm in a pepper relish and spent about...

Russian Borscht (Soup)

If you follow my blog, you may know my kids are Russian. Two of them (13 and 16) got together and made this great Borscht. When they first arrived from Russia, we did quite a bit to maintain their...

Kitchen Scale Poll, Deep Dish Pizza

This is my Uno’s copy pizza. During and after college I bartended at Uno’s in Ann Arbor and in San Diego (Pacific Beach) and my favorite pizza was spinoccoli. I haven’t had it much since then, but...

Lamb with Rosemary Wine Sauce

There was a recipe I wanted to try that called for lamb rib chops but all I remembered when I was talking to the farmer’s wife at the market was “lamb chops” and it turned out there were a half dozen...

Bread Season

Right when I was thinking it’s squash season and time to start thinking of what to do with everything from a pumpkin to a spaghetti squash, a friend told me fall means it’s bread and pizza season...