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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
We had a parent’s date night and bought the kids a treat to stay home and eat without us – organic TV dinners. There’s a lot of very superficial organic food out there, so except for the rare...
Ogallala is a city in Nebraska and the name of the largest aquifer in the United States; although it stretches down into Texas, two-thirds of it sits under the state of Nebraska. An aquifer is an...
Why am I making sweet potato casserole when it’s not Thanksgiving? Because we can have it year ‘round – especially in the winter when our local sweet potatoes are still in cold storage. The first time...
A Cornell research group studied how women get their recipes and its relationship to weight gain, and found that watching food television or using social media correlated to an increase in Body Mass...
Happy St. Patrick’s Day if you happen to celebrate, although I hope it’s not with anything that has green dye in it – I think I’ve covered food colors well enough by now. Here is a twist on deviled...
I found the Clean Plates Cookbook that I told you about last Tuesday, and slightly modified their recipe for Kitchen Sink Almond Butter Snack Bars. They’re using that name because you can use any...
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