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

Baked Ziti

I still had two steak burgers in the freezer from one farmer’s market and a package of sage sausage from another, plus with all of my newly canned tomatoes I thought it was a perfect combination for...

BLTs and ELTs

You’ll have to resist the urge to run and get your car keys when you hear this, but today on the way to my son’s soccer practice, I saw a sign in front of Burger King that says “Chicken Fries are...

Cherry Tomato Bake

I’m learning that the cherry tomatoes have to be picked before they crack or else they go bad fast. But with just two plants, they come in faster than a busy person can use them. My neighbor has...

Baked Beet Slices, Food Co-op

Last time I was at the Common Market in Frederick, I signed up to become a member. This is a food co-op that supports farms and businesses within 150 mile of the store. You don’t have to be a member...

Bruschetta

I still have some tomatoes left that I didn’t feel like canning, and bruschetta is a great summer side dish. We don’t really have time for appetizers at my house, but it would be lovely to have on its...

Canning Tomatoes

Some of the tomatoes have been on the vine too long and are starting to go bad, so it’s time to pick and “put them up.” I’m having to throw quite a few in the compost and the tomatoes in the kitchen...