Real Food Cooking
Healthy, traditional cooking: real food recipes, monthly and weekly meal plans, alternative cooking methods, and much more.
Trout Grilled in Parchment
We've been enjoying our beautiful summer with trips to the local lakes and river for fishing. We had a few trout in the freezer and decided to...
Menu Week of April 11, 2016
Hello, Hello! Spring is definitely here! We had our first baby goats of the year yesterday. I haven't seen them live and in person yet since my...
Menu Week of February 8, 2016
Hello from Texas! We are so happy to have a few days to rest and recuperate enjoying each other's company before heading west. We've had a nice...
Menu Week of February 1, 2016
I often find myself singing or humming part of a tune that fits the circumstances. We've been in Oklahoma for the last several months and many times...
Menu Week of January 25, 2016
Menu Plan Monday ~ It's back! In my early days of blogging I posted a menu almost every Monday. This menu served two purposes: ideas for you...
Tightening the Budget in 2015
2014 was an expensive year for us. Our biggest expense was building our cabin. In 2013 we bought 20 acres a few hours away with the plan to...
Egg Curry
Yum! This is a recipe I found on Pinterest that really caught my eye. During the spring and early summer our chickens work overtime laying us lots...
Tomato-y Salad Dressing
Amazingly versatile and so handy. Tomato powder is probably one of my favorite pantry items. This little gem is incredibly useful. Dried, tomato...
Menu Week of August 3 and Memories
Just over two weeks ago my sister lost her dear husband. My niece lost her father. My husband lost his cousin. My children lost their uncle. We are...
Menu Week of June 29
We've got some excitement happening! The start date for our cabin build is July 11. We're super excited about this. We'll be going up to the...
Menu Week of June 15
This week we're still focusing on eating out of our food storage and enjoying the few items we produce ourselves. Our freezer is emptying out...
Menu Week of June 8
The last few weeks have been pretty busy and I've neglected sharing our menu plans. I'm still putting together a plan, scratched out on a slip of...
Menu Week of May 11
Snow on Mother's Day! Yep. It wasn't enough to stick around but it did snow off and on all day and was cold. Definitely a day to stay inside. Joe...
Menu Week of April 13 & April 20
We had some excitement over the weekend. Our Peanut goat had kids. She had them around 8 Saturday morning. I was outside getting my dog that escaped...
Menu Week of April 6
Spring is on the horizon. We're still waking up to snow some mornings but many of the days are quite nice. This weekend we started tomatoes,...
Menu Week of March 30
Real Food for Less Money is now Homespun Oasis. Read why here. Whew-eee. Cold, snow and wind is what we woke up to. Yesterday we were outside...
Menu Week of March 23
We're celebrating! With the longer days the chickens and ducks have started laying again. We're getting between 10 and 12 eggs a day which means...
Menu Week of March 16
We've had a wonderful weekend visiting with my daughter that lives in Oregon and her fiance. The arrived mid-day on Saturday and left mid-day on...
Menu Week of March 9
How are you doing with the time change? Springing forward an hour doesn't seem like it should be a big deal but in some ways it is. We were starting...
Favorite Less Beef Meals
The cost of beef is going up. I've read a few different articles that peg the increase anywhere from 4% to 10% and this is a following a record...
Menu Week of February 23 – Working out of Town
This week I'm working in Oregon for my twice yearly audit that I do with them. I flew into Oregon on Saturday and spent the weekend with my daughter...