Butter is a wonderful thing, isn’t it? It doesn’t make you fat, you can eat as much of it as you want and be healthier for it, and you can use it in so many ways. You can bake with it, cook with it, flavor it, melt it, or eat it raw. In India, it’s…
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Shh… I have a secret! (Dr. Price’s Nutrition and Physical Degeneration — free!)
Are you familiar with the man, the (nutrition) myth (buster), the legend, Dr. Weston A. Price? If you’re not yet, allow me to introduce you to my main man, Wes. (And yes, the rumors are true. I have a crush on him.) From the Weston A. Price Foundation: Dr. Weston A. Price (1870-1948), a Cleveland…
20 Stocking Stuffers for a Real Foodie
Christmastiiime is here! Happiness and — CRAP! Christmas is like, next week! :-O Is the Santa at your house having a bit of a freakout right about now? Not to fear. You have til the end of today (Monday) to order last-minute stocking stuffers on Amazon and still have them reach you before Christmas….
Making Garlic Easy: Peeled, Minced, Stored, Ready!
I had an epiphany the other day. I was in my local hippie health food store, perusing the refrigerated aisle and getting mad that there wasn’t any cream or organic dairy that wasn’t ultra-high-pasteurized, lamenting over the low-fat kefir, and cringing at the selection of toxic tofu, when I came across this: Wait, is that…
Replacing Refined Sugar with Healthier, Natural Sweeteners (video)
Sugar is Bad, Honey is Rad Remember how we talked about cutting out the bad stuff in our diet, and replacing it with real foods instead? Sugar is definitely one thing I needed to do this with. I was completely, undeniably a sugar-holic before I started eating traditional foods. I’m not gonna lie. I definitely…
Crowding Out vs. Cutting Out: What’s Best for a Real Food Transition?
Usually when people think of beginning a new diet, they envision having to summon the strength to turn down all the tasty foods they love. Muster up the willpower to cut out the bad stuff, and only eat the good. But what if there was a way to switch to a better diet without being…
How I Accidentally Rendered Some Chicken Schmaltz
I have a feeling some of you seasoned Real Fooders are gonna laugh at this one, but here goes yet another story of this noob’s traditional cooking adventures. Maybe there are still some of you that have not yet made this discovery like me. Either way, it’s pretty awesome. So, I was roasting up a…
How Craigslist Can Help Your Real Food Lifestyle
Do you ever kind of wonder how in the WORLD we ever managed to function as a society without Craigslist? The free classified ad service is used for everything now — from finding a job, to buying a house, to hiring a handyman, to hosting a never-ending virtual garage sale of stuff we don’t want…
What to Do When You Can’t Get Raw Milk
I am relatively certain that I live in the most difficult area in the entire world to gain access to raw (read: REAL) milk. Not only is it completely, totally illegal to sell in my state (via retail OR farm sales, for humans or pets), but alternative legal loopholes such as herd shares are virtually…
One Simple Change to Feel Healthier and Have More Energy
Over the past week, I’ve been putting to the test one of the easiest ways I’ve found to help your body stay healthy. It doesn’t involve starting a recipe 100 hours ahead of time, or making weird science experiments in your kitchen, or any of the other somewhat overwhelming tasks a Real Food-er must do….