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

Parsley Pesto Stars

When I was little, my Grandma had a little strip of garden bed across the back of her house and along the fence. She always had a lot of fresh parsley and tomatoes. When we were in the yard, she would...

Chicken Salad Sandwiches

Since we had leftover chicken from Monday, here are the instructions on mixing chicken salad. First, when you’re cleaning the meat off of the chicken, throw in any of the herb or spice mixture that...

Walnut Streusel Bread

When I cleaned the counters the other day I found a Cooking Light magazine from October, 2012. I haven’t gone through it yet to figure out what I saved it for, but today the cover photo of a streusel...

Grilled Chicken Sans Beer

I feel compelled, after ripping on chicken the other day, to provide the dear readers a chicken recipe (and a beer can scavenger hunt story), because my point isn’t to make everyone a vegetarian...

Locally Grown in Supermarkets

I have almost enough food in the refrigerator for next week’s menu. I just need to make a loaf of bread, get mushrooms and a couple of things not in the yard or farm stands, and fish for one night...

Drugs in Factory Meat

Once years ago, I was out in my side yard talking to the neighbor and this big swarm of gnats came by and we were shoeing them off and shortly after I went inside.  A few minutes later I started...