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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 usually wait to make eggplant parmesan for the weekend since it takes a while to brown the eggplant slices. Although, now I have shown the kids how to do the browning so it can be done when I get...
I was in line getting a coffee recently and the woman in front of me was telling the barista about a granola bar she liked (I didn’t catch what kind it was), and the barista told her that she liked...
Back at my mother-in-law’s today and picked a bucket of sugar snap peas. She has found that there’s no such thing as deer-resistant anything, so you can see the extent of fencing around the main...
Here’s a garden update: the carrots never appeared unfortunately. There’s only one and I think it’s a volunteer back from last year. I went out to get a picture and ended up spending a half hour...
I suddenly realized that we could have been using the slow cooker through the height of sports season when we sometimes had to eat in shifts. A slow cooker dinner can sit there and be ready and warm...
Sometimes on Sundays we get a coffee in the grocery store and have been trying to remember to take along our re-usable travel mugs from home — it struck me one day that we keep buying single...
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