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

Fragrant Beets

I was running late and my husband was getting home first. I asked him to look up a recipe for beets because I had diced up 4 or 5 beets and had them in a container in the frig. He found a recipe...

Cracked Fingerlings (Potatoes)

There was a bizarre advertisement on the side of my yahoo email account. It was for Velveeta macaroni and cheese and, besides a picture of the product, there was a picture of a basic car with a really...

Berry Sunflower Pancakes

I just realized that I never posted my B&B specialty: raspberry sunflower seed butter granola pancakes. I even referenced it on one of the seasonal eating pages — how I substitute...

Pineapple Upside Down Cake

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Detroit Greek Pizza

It took me about ten years on and off trying to perfect this recipe. There’s a section of Detroit called Greek Town, and in and around that area there is a pizza that is special to Detroit. It’s not...

Turmeric, Tilapia, and Inventing Recipes

I only had three pieces of tilapia in the freezer and we were down to three people for dinner due to extenuating circumstances of soccer practice and the first high school football game, so it was an...