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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.
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I was happy to come across a meatloaf recipe that’s only half meat, because we love meatloaf but want to eat less. It tastes great and the only difference from a full loaf of meat is a slightly less...
Today was a slow cooker day and I love the blend of spices in Indian tikka masala. It’s not hot spicy, it’s flavorful spicy. If you want hot spicy, you will need to add that in addition to the recipe...
Don’t you hate when you make something for dinner and just as you’re clearing the table after the meal you remember that you forgot to serve it? I did that today. I put the cucumber salad back in the...
You know you’re in Maryland when you go to a baseball game food counter and they’re serving crab cakes. Today we took in a minor league ball game at Harry Grove Stadium in Frederick where the Keys...
I had an interesting jaunt to Panama City Beach because luckily I have an adventurous Godmother. She lives in Naples, Florida, and I suggested last spring that we plan to get together either at her...
When we got to Moscow with two kids we were adopting, we met up with my ex-pat cousin and he took them to an American diner burger joint and fed my son more than he was probably used to eating in a...
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