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

Curry Chicken Salad

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Beef Recall – Mad Cow

I was perusing the news and saw an article in Tech Times about a beef recall last week with possible links to mad cow disease. I was afraid that was about to come up again. The recall is from a...

Raspberry Bars

I have a couple each of blueberry and raspberry plants that came back from last yet, but the fruit is still tiny and green, so I bought some organic raspberries. I also keep a bag of organic...

Father’s Day Tuna Steaks

Happy Father’s Day! My son and I went to a local fish market called Lighthouse Seafood because Tony was hoping for tuna steaks for Father’s Day dinner; he said he used to make them often. Everything...

Local Farm vs CAFO

My son and I stopped at a local farm called England Acres (their last name is England) and found a great market with everything fresh in season and organic. It’s a beautiful 1870s farm and besides the...

Guilt vs Gratitude

One of the goals of this site is to celebrate our food. People never need to feel guilty about their current state of health and eating because there isn’t any benefit in feeling bad, and guilt is not...