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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 read in the Washington Post one day about a House measure, supportedby Republicans and pushed by food industry lobbyists and some school officials, that would allow some districts to opt out of...
Dill was the only herb left in the back porch planter that needed a serious haircut so I had planned for fish thinking a lot of dill could be used in the marinade or topping. This marinade can be used...
Someone from work invited me to their annual Memorial Day potluck cookout. I volunteered Tony to make his tortellini salad, which I do whenever we get invited to a potluck. They have a beautiful place...
This is going to be an herb extravaganza weekend because we have been getting so much rain that the herbs are growing out of their planters. If I don’t give them all haircuts, I’m going to need to...
My sourdough starter needed a kickstart, so I’ve been pouring off discard twice a day and finally had a chance on the weekend to use some of it for these very easy biscuits. I like the look and...
I picked up my mother-in-law because she likes to go to Whole Foods, and we headed out on the gray day, with clouds looming and Rockville Pike covered with traffic. Although Whole Foods has a great...
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