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

Tomato Cobbler

I had another load of cherry tomatoes starting to go bad on the vines again, and Tony pulled this recipe from his AARP magazine just in time. He prepared the tomato mixture (slightly modified) the...

Pear Streusel Cake

When I was at the nearby farm, England Acres, to cut a bunch of dill to make pickles last weekend, I picked up a flyer for an organization called Fermentation on Wheels. They have a traveling culinary...

Fall Farm Bowls

I got a great dinner idea from a friend and his wholesome-food-loving, young chef kids, Brendan (3 years old) and RJ (6 years old) in Washington D.C.   They went to Larriland Farm in Woodbine, MD, to...

Canning Pickles

Another great day for canning and this time I made pickles. My cucumber plants are dry already so I bought 13 cucumbers at the farmer’s market for $4.00. This amount made seven jars of pickles so it...

Sautéed Kale

The West Frederick Farmer’s Market moved from the north side of W. Patrick to the south side. You have to take Walnut behind the Red Horse restaurant and it ends on Oak, then go to the United...

Ice Cream Sundaes

Today I send warm thoughts to everyone on this anniversary of a painful day in our world’s history, especially for anyone who lost someone. Or even for survivors who may sometimes wonder what we’re...