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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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Yesterday while I was mixing various things into the bison to make burgers, my son sliced the cucumbers for the salad. This is a “salad” for Eastern Europeans — if you’re from somewhere like...
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I spent last evening and part of the night going through recipes, organizing what could be accomplished on a weekday versus the weekend, and figuring out what ingredients could be used to their...
Took a different route home from work today to avoid accident traffic on the highway and saw a farm market called Rock Hill. I pulled in they had some nice, healthy plants out front that were only...
Tony was inspired by the kale slaw on his sandwich last Friday at Beck’s and found a recipe on the Food Network website which we highly modified to make it much simpler. I try to make all of the...
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