By old-fashioned food I mean the kind of food your grandparents sat down to feast on every single day of their lives.
You already know that good food can lead to big improvements in your health. You’ve probably also heard that old-fashioned diets like your grandparents are very, very bad for you. I’m here to to tell you that is not the case! Like most folks these days you are probably confused about what good food is after years of hearing contradictory advice. A good diet is a traditional diet. Traditional real food diets are about coming home to eating the way mankind has always eaten. It’s about ignoring the fountain of advice in favor of what has always worked!
It’s my hope that you’ll find these articles helpful in sorting out what is traditional food and what is not.
Affording Real Food
- 3 Dangerous Ways to Save Money on Food
- Making the Most of Granny’s Free Meal Plan
- Real Food at Walmart – Fats and Oils
- Real Food at Walmart – Meat and Bones
- Real Food at Walmart – Pantry Foods
- Real Food at Walmart – The Dairy Section
- Real Food at Walmart – The Nature of Compromise
- Real Food at Walmart – A Quick Tour
- Real Food at Walmart – Can it be done?
- Real Food at Walmart – Fruits and Vegetables
- Real Food Economics 101: The Real Food Lifestyle Costs Less
- Real Food Economics 101: Eating on $6.25 a Day
- Real Food Economics 101: Is Real Food Really More Expensive?
- Real Food Economics 101: Not Stressing a “Not 100% Real Food Diet”
- Real Food Economics 101: Real Food vs Average Food Budgets
- Real Food Economics 101: Strategies to Reduce Food Costs
- The Pantry Principle – How to get the ball rolling within your budget – Part 4
- The Pantry Principle – How to maintain your pantry – Part 5
- The Pantry Principle – How to save gobs of time cooking for your family — Part 1
- The Pantry Principle – What you’ll need as raw ingredients for real food recipes – Part 3
- The Pantry Principle – What you’ll need to get started – Part 2
- Which Potato Do You Buy?
Recipes
- Chicken Cacciatore Soup
- Creamy Potato Soup
- Crockpot Baked Apples
- Crockpot Beef Stroganoff
- Easy Beef Vegetable and Rice Soup
- Easy Pizza Rollups
- Easy to Make Sauerkraut
- Mashed Potatoes Like Grandma Made ’em
- Stovetop Beef Tallow French Fries
- Three Spice Snickerdoodles
- Two Meat Crockpot Chili
- White Country Gravy
Straight Talk
- A Good Enough Cook
- A Word About Inadequate Kitchens and Tools
- Are Visions of Halloween Candy Binges Haunting You?
- Contentment and the Zen of Granny
- Did Grandma Eat Gluten?
- Dr. Oz and Poor People’s Food
- Grandma was a Real Foodie
- Granny is a State of Mind
- Healthy Fats First!
- How Long Did People Live 100 Years Ago?
- If You Have a Chronic Illness
- Is Everything ‘Organic’ Real Food?
- Is Your Doctor a Nutrition Expert?
- The Art of Thoughtful Real Food Compromise
- What Makes a Diet Good? The Final Five Principles
- What Makes a Diet Good? The Second Five Principles
- What Makes a Diet Good? The Third Five Principles
- What Makes a Diet Good? The First Five Principles
- Why Healthy Food Doesn’t Cost as Much as You Think!
- Why it’s OK to Eat Dessert
- Why Traditional Diets are Better for You
Tools
- A Word About Inadequate Kitchens and Tools
- Instructions for Making Fido, Pickl-It, and Le Parfait Jar Covers – DIY
- Modern Equipment Makes Scratch Cooking a Cinch!
- Real Food Kitchen Workhorse, the Bosch Universal Plus Kitchen Machine
- The Virtues of Cast Iron Cookware
- Vintage Pyrex Dishes – Practical Plates and Bowls
- Why You Want a Vintage Cast Iron Skillet
Wholesome Ingredients
- Butter – Getting the best quality you can afford
- Buttermilk – A Staple in Grandma’s Kitchen
- Choosing Flour – Are Whole Grain Flours Traditional?
- Eat More Eggs – Easy to Make Affordable Nutrition
- Feel Bad About Eating White Rice?
- Grassfed Beef is Best
- Local Honey is the Best Honey
- Raw Milk Goodness
- The Best Fruits and Vegetables You Can Afford
- What You Should Know About Beans
- Whole Grains Have a Sketchy Past
- Why Choose Beef Tallow?
Routines
- A Day in the Life of a Busy Kitchen
- A Guide to Picking Recipes for the Absolute Beginner
- A Word About Inadequate Kitchens and Tools
- Is Your Kitchen Ready to Cook?
- The Pantry Principle – How to get the ball rolling within your budget – Part 4
- The Pantry Principle – How to maintain your pantry – Part 5
- The Pantry Principle – How to save gobs of time cooking for your family — Part 1
- The Pantry Principle – What you’ll need as raw ingredients for real food recipes – Part 3
- The Pantry Principle – What you’ll need to get started – Part 2
- Wait! Don’t Throw Out All the Processed Food at Once!
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