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

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 eating habits, as there is no benefit in doing so, and guilt isn’t a prescription for better...

Easy Balsamic Vinaigrette Recipe

Earlier (May 13) I posted my Caesar dressing recipe which has six ingredients in it. A name brand Caesar dressing at the store has over 20 ingredients. Among them are phosphoric acid, modified food...

Roasted Beats

Today I received a telephone survey about food from an organization associated with our supermarket. The topic of eating a wide diversity of vegetables came up and I mentioned that we were trying to...

Catching Vermin

I mentioned my previous groundhog posting, that they’re huge, eat everyone’s gardens, and nothing can stop them. Last year I tried to grow lettuce, kale, and rainbow chard, along with a lot of...

School Breakfast

One day I was at my desk at work and my son’s teacher called to tell me that he stole a cinnamon roll at breakfast. Yes, the lovely Friday free breakfast offering at his school – the cinnamon roll...