Real Food Cooking
Healthy, traditional cooking: real food recipes, monthly and weekly meal plans, alternative cooking methods, and much more.
Thoughts on Health Care
Something that has been on my mind a lot lately is health care. You may know that when we changed our diet in early 2009 from a diet of mainly...
Swirl Bread or Swirl Rolls
Once in a while I like to do something slightly different than our regular sourdough bread, such as Swirl Bread or Swirl Rolls. Cinnamon swirl bread...
Menu Plan Week of February 10
I'm very excited! I'm on the home stretch for getting all of the tax stuff together and off to the CPA for my bookkeeping job. It is always a good...
Creamy Carrot and Apple Soup
This is a very tasty, easy and inexpensive soup. It is a great use for apples that are slightly past their prime. My little boy particularly loves...
Menu Plan Week of February 3
First week of February. I am amazed at how fast 2013 is going. Have I mentioned that one of my girls is graduating from high school this year? Kiki...
Menu Plan Week of January 27
Last week, instead of making a menu plan, I prepared a few things early in the week to reheat for later. You can read about that here. Overall this...
Food Plan Week of January 20
The previous couple of weeks I've shared our menu plan after the fact. What we planned to eat and what we actually ate. And I had fully intended to...
Menu in Review: Week of January 6
Beginning last week (and continuing for the next couple of weeks) I've posted our menu plan after the fact. I wanted to share how even though I use...
Red Beans: Cooking and Favorite Meals
At my house red beans is an all encompassing term for any red bean (I know, obvious). These could be the large red kidney beans or smaller red...
Menu in Review: Week of December 30 & BBQ Style Beans
Most weeks I make a menu plan. Some weeks I share it with you. I find that a having a pre planned menu to follow works best for me to be able to...
Budgets, Rules and Going Forward
Happy 2013! With the new year here I thought it would be a great time to give an overview of our food philosophy and this blog. When I...
Menu Plan Week of December 9
I'm happy to be back home after being out of town for work last week. My husband tells me he is extremely happy I am home! It is nice to be missed....
Menu Plan Week of December 2
This week's menu plan actually features two separate plans. On Saturday (December 1) I left town for my work and my family remained at home to fend...
Menu Plan Week of November 25
On Saturday at 6AM I fly out to go to spend a few days working in Oregon. I'm a bookkeeper/office manage/virtual assistant for a shop on the Oregon...
A New Development
Almost four years ago, I heard about something called traditional foods and a book called Nourishing Traditions. It took several months to locate a...
Menu Plan Week of November 18
Last week's menu plan ended up with a few slight changes. Mainly Friday night's Taco Soup. When it was time to make Taco Soup I just didn't feel...
Campfire Broth
Homemade broth is an important part of a real, whole, traditional foods diet. Making broth was one of the first things I started doing when we began...
Menu Plan Week of November 11
It is quite cold here! We had snow and single digit temperatures over the weekend. I think it is supposed to warm up later in the week. Last week's...
Menu Plan November 4
Last week's menu plan turned out great. Planning for breakfast, lunch and dinner really helped me with my organization-- something that had been...
Menu Plan October 28
Last week a friend and I were retrieving the rest of our Azure Standard order (a long story that involved ALOT of driving) and we were discussing...
Shop the Pantry First– My Method for Menu Planning
For the month of October, we're focusing on tightening our belt and reducing our food costs. The main thing my family does to help with our food...