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

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...

Fettuccine Alfredo Primavera

It is getting CHILLY! Not an easy time to sit on the cold bleachers at the school stadium. I actually got a hot chocolate and have no idea what was in it or how they made it – it was the only hot...

Non-GMO Sweet Corn

An article in Eating Well this summer gave some misleading information about how much sweet corn in the United States is genetically modified. While it’s true, as stated, that over 90% of the field...

Fall Casserole w/ Paprika Biscuits

Here is a fall recipe based on one in the Good and Cheap PDF referenced Thursday. You can see in the photos that my husband followed the recommendation of grating frozen butter.  I probably would use...

Add Joy Back to Cooking

Three sociologists published a paper in Context this summer about how cooking for families, particularly in low-income households, is unjoyful and stressful, and simply idealistic and unrealistic. The...