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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 talked about all of the plastics floating in the ocean one time, and I really see a lot of water bottles in the streets heading toward the storm drains. There are very wide drains in Maryland and...
I looked through my entire blog history and cannot find a time in the past year when I made sloppy joes. That is really weird – it’s a staple of American food. Now that spring sports started, I need...
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For Tony’s menu day he did a search online for “healthy casserole.” I think I told you one time that his dad never allowed his mom to make casseroles, so we’re making up for the lack of childhood...
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