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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
Every day when I get home from work, I check the potato barrel and today there is one little inch-tall plant with purplish-green leaves. It’s very exciting so let’s hope a squirrel doesn’t dig it up...
Good thing I started the garden early so all the neighborhood animals know where they can get a free breakfast! The carrot tops are gone, some of the cucumbers plants, the bok choy, and the broccoli...
On a half-date-night, we went back to a place that I seem to have missed reporting on previously, the little old brick schoolhouse turned restaurant called Brick Ridge in Mt. Airy, MD. It was a...
I found a container of fresh mozzarella in the back of the refrigerator and have no recollection of buying it and it doesn’t match anything on the weekly menu. It was already at its expiration date...
While I was staying late after work, the rest of the family put together a dinner from an old Bon Appetit article about quick and easy dinners. The funny thing is that it’s a slide-show and summarizes...
Last time I reported on carrots I had not come across this 10-year research project that looked at the colors of fruits and vegetables and how their color-associated micronutrients and phytochemicals...
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