Baby Steps Part Two: Make Peace with Your Kitchen
June 16, 2009
In my first “baby steps” post, I talked about the importance of finding and establishing a support system for transitioning to a traditional foods diet. This was a very important step for me. After establishing support, the next step is to make peace with the fact that you will need to be in your kitchen more than ever before. Don’t worry, this baby step doesn’t plunge you into the kitchen and make you change everything overnight. Today we just begin to make peace with the concept that you will be doing more cooking than ever before.
A few weeks ago I was blessed to share some thoughts on “Nourishing our Families the Traditional Way” at a homeschooling conference in Seattle. My main talk involved 10 baby steps for making the transition. I thought I would, over the course of the next several weeks, share and expound a little on these baby steps. Read the rest of this entry »
Real Food Wednesdays: 5 Tips for Transitioning to a Real Food Diet
February 4, 2009
This week, Kelly is rounding up tips from those of us who’ve made the transition to a Real Foods diet. What is real food? Basically, it’s food that has a source, a face, a name. You know who made it, grew it, milked it, collected it, etc. Besides trying to locate sources for all of this real food, it can be very tricky to actually process it and make it into something appealing that your family will enjoy! Fortunately there are many resources on the web that focus on this very subject. My blog network, Real Food Media is a great place to turn for lots of wonderful information from bloggers from all walks of life, sharing about the practical application of a Traditonal Foods lifestyle. You can also read about how our family came to eating Real Food here. Here are 5 Tips I have for transitioning into a Real Food Diet.
