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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 had garlic bread on the menu for today but forgot to buy the large loaf of bread that I wanted at the bakery. Instead of driving out again, I pulled out the bread maker and decided to make a more...
I had a friend visiting from North Carolina and made this recipe for the first time. It’s from an old issue of Vegetarian Times (April/May 2011). They said “you’ll need some dexterity to flip the...
A week or so ago, there was a radio discussion about the food-mood connection that addressed the relationship between long-term stress and eating habits. Stress can lead to consuming bad foods and...
Vegies and dip sounds like a boring meal until you call it “crudités” and have it beautifully arranged on a plate with a nice glass of wine and some freshly baked bread. Crudité is French for uncooked...
Usually I bake stuffed peppers in the oven, but you can also put the same peppers in the slow cooker. Get everything ready the night before if you want to save time the morning, then take it out of...
You may have noticed my serving sizes in some of my plated foods photographs, and I’ve mentioned portion control a few times. Portion size is a huge factor in health and weight. People can even become...
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