Real Food Cooking
Healthy, traditional cooking: real food recipes, monthly and weekly meal plans, alternative cooking methods, and much more.
Spinach Crepes Bernoise OR The Best Crepes Ever
Sacred Appetite is a great blog with the motto: "Restoring harmonious and healthy family meals". Anna Migeon is the author and offers lots of...
>January Food- Take 1
>A new month, a new year and a new time for food tracking. If you missed my post finishing up December food tracking you can find it here.In...
Menu Week of January 3
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...
>December Food- Final Take
>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,...
Lemon Poppy Seed Cake
Are you looking for a not too sweet yet deliciously moist cake? This Lemon Poppy Seed Cake is made with bananas and optional honey. For me, this is...
>December Food- Take 4
>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...
>Menu Week of December 28
>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...
Sourdough Pita Bread
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...
December Food- Take 3
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...
>Menu Week of December 21
>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...
Wonderfully Tart Grapefruit Marmalade
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...
Meat Potpie
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...
Special Occasion Fish Chowder
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...
December Food- Take 2
> 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...
Menu Week of December 14
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...
December Food- Take 1
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...
Minimal Knead Sourdough Sandwich Bread
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...
Super Yummy Butterscotch Oatmeal
Warm and delicious plus amazingly frugal. It's hard to go wrong with this Super Yummy Butterscotch Oatmeal. Soaking the night before helps make it...
Menu Week of November 30
Last week was pretty great food wise. Of course, we had Thanksgiving and all of the bounty that Thanksgiving entails. Tuesday night we had a very...
Meal Planning Process
I have been using meal plans/menus for a couple of years now. When I worked a full time job outside the home it helped so much to be able to know in...
5 Cheap and Easy Ways to Improve Nutrition
Are you at a point where you know you need to make some improvements to your diet to include more nutrient dense items, higher nutrition and less...