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

Smothered Okra

This was my first time buying okra. I’ve eaten it a couple of times in the cafeteria at work (only deep-fried), but I had never handled a fresh one before. I read online that some okra recipes are...

Garlic Bread, More Gardens

Today Tony gave me an article from an AARP magazine that reported in the years between 2008 and 2012, home-based produce gardening increased 17% in the U.S. The National Gardening Association says...

Tomato Benefits – Gazpacho

I’ve been cooking a lot with tomatoes but haven’t really gone into the benefits of the vegetable, I mean fruit – it’s actually a berry! Unfortunately, it’s also a night shade plant; so if you avoid...

Rib Eye with Paprika Vinaigrette

Labor Day is traditionally a grill day so luckily we had perfect grilling weather today after a stormy Sunday evening. I simplified this recipe from one in the June 2014 Bon Appetit magazine that I...

Smoothies at Super Foods

After making a wrong turn out of my daughter’s friend’s driveway out in the middle of nowhere the other day, I found myself in Mt Airy, MD, in front of one of the best shops in the area, Super Foods...

Substituting Seasonal Ingredients

In the spring I posted the best times of year for planting, but more importantly (in case you aren’t able to grow your own food) is when things are in harvest. We’re about to get into the time of year...