Category Archives: Recipes & In the Kitchen

Our {Real Food} Journey: Conclusion and Resources

If you’re new to this series, start here! Thank you so much for allowing me to share Our {Real Food} Journey with you and for your encouragement along the way! I really appreciate all of the love and support. To wrap up: some concluding thoughts and recommended resources! All-in-All Eat food. Not too much. Mostly plants. Michael Pollan said it…

Our {Real Food} Journey: Food Spending and Culture

If you’re new to this series, start here! The most common argument against buying real food is the cost, and hopefully offering up 12 Ways to Save makes that argument a little less viable! I do think saving money where we can is important; however, I’d also like to challenge the western thought process toward food in relationship to our money…

Our {Real Food} Journey: 12 Ways to Save!

If you’re new to this series, start here! Food, especially real organic food, is a huge cost! These are 11 suggestions to make eating real food affordable! Make Choice Investments Decide what YOU feel is most important to be of the highest quality and invest in those (personally: the dirty dozen, grass-fed beef/pasture-raised chickens, pastured eggs,…

Our {Real Food} Journey: 7 Tips Toward Real Food

  If you’re new to this series, start here! The following are some thoughts on what I did that worked out well OR that I didn’t do and wish I would have: {The Emotional Steps} 1.) Freedom & Grace for Your Pace! Some people are “all or nothing” and can make drastic changes overnight and…

Our {Real Food} Journey: From the Beginning

If you’re new to this series, start here! It all started… (unintentionally) about two years ago. I was not out to learn more about eating or cooking healthy, I thought I knew the basics and was, in general, a healthy person. Sure, I loved sweets (still do), ate the typical snack foods and grabbed the…

Our {Real Food} Journey: Real Food Defined

If you’re wondering whether or not something is {real}, ask yourself, “Could someone generations ago find this given item or create this combination of food items?” If the answer is no, then it is not Real Food. My working definition of {Real food} is just that: REAL, whole foods that are consumed as they were…

Our {Real Food} Journey: Disclaimer

I have written a fair amount of posts mentioning or alluding to our desire to eat REAL FOOD. Over the next four days I will share our definition of real food, why we made changes, where to begin, tips and tricks, encouragement and real food resources.  But, I absolutely have to start by sharing the…

Food Revolution Day!

I can wait no longer to share my excitement about Jamie Oliver’s Food Revolution Day; an international day to take a stand for REAL FOOD! Food Revolution Day…is a chance for people who love food to come together to share information, talents and resources; to pass on their knowledge and highlight the world’s food issues…We want to inspire…

Friday Five – 5.4.12

1.) I am so grateful for such sweet family and friends who call or come help when my love is away. One such lovely friend even brought flowers which have been brightening up my kitchen all week.   2.) I waited for months to get the book Nourishing Traditions by Sally Fallon from the library and upon taking…

Homemade Crockpot Yogurt

After learning more about the incredible benefits of traditional food fermentation and especially the benefits of the healthy probiotics found in yogurt, I am totally convinced that yogurt is an absolute must in my kitchen for the health of my family. I am NOT talking about dyed, naturally or artificially sweetened and flavored yogurt; I am talking about…