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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
A new farmer’s market opened on Main Street in New Market, across the street from my B&B. The building is going to open soon as a breakfast and lunch restaurant called Vintage. I’m particularly...
Someone forwarded me an email about events going on through Slow Food DC. The Slow Food movement began in Rome, Italy, in the late 1980s after a McDonald’s tried to open a franchise there. Since then...
When I first heard of portobello burgers, I thought it sounded like mushroom overload, but they actually taste remarkably like regular burgers. In fact, most places call them mushroom steaks (you...
One of the many road trips I went on with my Grandpa was to northern Michigan to go fishing when I was a teenager. He probably took me fishing with him because I liked putting night crawlers on...
Finally got around to making the calzone that I promised last month. My mother-in-law made these with Italian sausage instead of the spinach. I got a late start so I didn’t feel like making separate...
There’s a natural food store and café in Frederick, MD, called Common Market that has been there since 1974. It’s similar to Whole Foods except more focused on small local farms, reasonably priced...
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