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

Easy Dinners

While I was staying late after work, the rest of the family put together a dinner from an old Bon Appetit article about quick and easy dinners. The funny thing is that it’s a slide-show and summarizes...

Carrots

Last time I reported on carrots I had not come across this 10-year research project that looked at the colors of fruits and vegetables and how their color-associated micronutrients and phytochemicals...

Gnocchi Soup

Don’t you just drag into the house exhausted some days and just want to take something out of the refrigerator or freezer and nuke it? Good thing we made gnocchi last weekend! One time when we let my...

Brown Rice Stir-Fry

It turned out to be particularly ironic that my son volunteered to make a brown rice stir fry today, first because I forgot to point out that the brown rice was in the freezer. When he could only find...

Potato Planters

The potato seeds I bought last month have started to sprout and it’s time to get them planted in the outdoor container. You can plant potatoes in rows in your garden but a barrel, trash can, or other...

Gnocchi

Gnocchi is a versatile little potato dumpling with trademark grooves on one side. Homemade gnocchi is worth the effort once in a while, just like all homemade pasta and dumplings. If you make a double...