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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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Luckily I picked up a nice, little, backyard harvest yesterday since Hurricane Arthur is in town today. Once the cucumbers (or pickles, doesn’t really matter which) come in full force, it will be time...
After picking a kid up from one side of one town and another kid from the other side of a different town, which placed me in the perfect time and location for the height of rush hour, there was no way...
I went to a co-worker’s office at work and she had a McDonald’s bag on her desk and was eating dinner. She told me she stops at McDonald’s almost every day at least once. I didn’t ask her if she knows...
This makes a really colorful meal, especially when you use the rainbow chard. If you can buy meat from farmers that only pasture their animals in grass, then the meat is gluten-free because they...
This guy name Lou Altobelli, on the corner of 108 and New Hampshire Ave, sells the most giant horse carrots. I stopped there today to get a picture of one but he was out, so I’ll try again next month...
One weekend a month I go to the Blueberry Gardens Center for Yoga, Growth, and Healing in Ashton, Maryland. I’ve been waiting since January for the U-pick blueberry season. According to their website...
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