>We try to eat Real Food. What does this mean to us? Our foods should be whole, unprocessed and nutrient dense. Our diet has a quite a bit of room for improvement. Our journey to eating Real Food started around the end of January 2009 when I read the book Nourishing Traditions by Sally Fallon*. …
>This is the final recap of food purchased (or otherwise acquired) for the month of December. The previous total spent was $460.66 (week 1, week 2, week 3, week 4). We didn’t need very much this week. We are increasing our cow share so we can get 2 gallons a week. I paid half of …
Christopher had his first birthday yesterday. I wanted to make him a cake that I wouldn’t feel ‘bad’ about feeding him. I’m not much of a baker so making a cake is a bit of challenge even with a proven recipe. You would think I would just find a recipe ‘good enough’ and be happy, …
>This is a recap of food purchased (or otherwise acquired) for the past week. This week I payed my cow share. We contribute to the room and board for a couple of Brown Swiss cows and in exchange for that we get one gallon of raw milk per week. Our monthly fee for this is …
>We try to eat Real Food. What does that mean to me? Our foods should be whole, unprocessed and nutrient dense. We still have a long ways to go before we are eating an optimum Real Food diet. With the New Year fast approaching it seems like a good time to buckle down in our …
I know that two days before Christmas I should be sharing something Christmas related with you. But I made these Pita Pockets last week and they were so good I can’t wait to tell you about them. How about I spin them to you as a great bread option for your Christmas turkey leftovers? Imagine …
>This is the recap of food purchased for the past week. The big thing was my Azure Standard order arrived. Yippee! What I ordered: 25 pounds of Hard Red Wheat 10 pounds Frozen Strawberries (not pictured) Toasted Sesame Oil 5 pounds Bulgar 1 pound Cinnamon Sea Salt Fermented Cod Liver/Butter Oil (Cinnamon Tingle) My total …
>We try to eat Real Food. What does that mean to me? Our foods should be whole, unprocessed and nutrient dense. Some days we do better than others at accomplishing this goal. The tin of cookies, the tin of fudge and the plate of homemade candies that arrived at our house this past week produced …
Last winter we lived in Northern California (after our house in Oregon sold but before we could move to our land in Wyoming) and we had access to an amazing array of different fruits. Joe’s parents had a grapefruit tree and to be honest we ended up with grapefruit running out our ears. This year …
I have mentioned in a previous post that one of the things I often do is prepare a meal that can be remade into future meals. Such as making a roast one night, the next night taking the leftover roast and making a casserole, and possibly the third night making a stew. This week on …
This rich and delicious Fish Chowder is super easy to make and uses nutrient dense fish stock as the base. I make my fish stock in my usual method out of trout carcasses that I stash in the freezer. We love our fishing trips that allow us to keep the freezer stocked! Once the broth …
> I’ve added to our food spending for the month of December. The picture below shows some of the items from one store stop. I actually forgot to get a picture until everything was already put away so I grabbed out what I could remember. Total spent that day was $30.63 that wasn’t all for …
We try to eat Real Food. What does that mean to me? Our foods should be whole, unprocessed and nutrient dense. I’ll be the first to admit that we still have a long ways to go before we are eating the optimum nutrient dense diet. Most days though, I am pleased with our progress in …
I’ve been thinking that if I’m going to call this blog Real Food for Less Money that I really should share with you not only what we eat but what we spend and where we buy it. Fair warning, these posts might be extremely boring. But I think that I would feel better providing ‘full …
I love sourdough. I love a big crusty hunk of it to enjoy with stew. But crusty sourdough doesn’t work very well for sandwiches. Making a sourdough that is sandwich bread quality is actually very easy and I’ve been playing with my sourdough recipe to make it even easier. Now in about 20 minutes hands …