Real Food Lovers

ToriMalt
ToriMalt Posts: 18 Member
edited November 21 in Food and Nutrition
Anyone else on here a lover of the real food movement? Not crazy obsessed, just trying to eat whole, healthy, real food. Looking for real food buddies to share tips and recipes. Add me if this is you or if you're curious to know more about it!
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  • kommodevaran
    kommodevaran Posts: 17,890 Member
    I love food, for real :D Or is it just primarily cooking from single food ingredients that can be found in ordinary grocery stores? I'm already doing that. I don't use a lot of recipes, but when I need one, I'll google it.
  • lemurcat12
    lemurcat12 Posts: 30,886 Member
    edited September 2017
    ToriMalt wrote: »
    Anyone else on here a lover of the real food movement? Not crazy obsessed, just trying to eat whole, healthy, real food. Looking for real food buddies to share tips and recipes. Add me if this is you or if you're curious to know more about it!

    Didn't know there was a "real food movement." I am aware of the slow food movement and know someone into it, and I know a lot of people (including myself) who mostly cook with whole foods. There seems to be a reasonable overlap between both these groups and enjoying good restaurants, however.

    Do you find it unusual for people to enjoy cooking and eating whole foods, in season produce, and so on? Because that's not how it is for me, and I am always surprised when people seem to think this is a special diet or lifestyle some such. It's pretty much how I grew up and how I've mostly cooked (although I went through a period in my 20s where I did not cook much).

    It could be that you are being way more restrictive than I would (some days I can't cook as I would like, and I live with that -- yesterday I was traveling for work and got home late, for example), but I tend to think maybe it's just that I think of it as normal (and so do a lot of us) and not some kind of special lifestyle.

    Anyway, I love to cook and try to do with local, in-season ingredients when possible (although I love my salmon and am not giving up broccoli in the winter). I'd be happy to share ideas, although I rarely use recipes. I do love cookbooks and use them for ideas and food porn, and can share recommendations on those too.
  • ToriMalt
    ToriMalt Posts: 18 Member
    @JustRobby1 I do not base my lifestyle based on clever marketing. I don't pay top dollar for things with fancy labels. I know there are loop holes for being considered "organic" "free range" "grass fed" etc. Instead I raise my own chickens for organic eggs and meat (yes, I butcher them myself). I raise a garden for my own veggies. The things I can't produce myself I carefully research and make the best decision based on what's available to me. And yes, sometimes I even eat junk food.
  • 3bambi3
    3bambi3 Posts: 1,650 Member
    ToriMalt wrote: »
    As responses to this are coming in quicker than I can reply to, I'll just make one last clarification. I was in no way insulting, criticizing, or preaching to anyone. Simply looking for other like minded people. In fact, I was simply excited that I learned to make some awesome homemade flavored coffee creamer this morning without all the additives found in the store bought kind and I was looking for people to share that kind of thing with and who would share recipes and "hacks" like that with me. I never said I didn't eat anything processed. In fact I love diet mt dew and Cheetos, two of the worst foods there are. I just try to outweigh the bad choices with what I feel are better ones. And I did not coin the phrase "real food movement". I thought that anyone who watched food network or reads food blogs would be familiar with that phrase. It's just what it's called. Best wishes to everyone on their health journey, whatever that may look like.

    What's wrong with diet soda and cheetos? I eat cheetos regularly (the puffs are the best, IMO) and have yet to see any ill effects other than that damn cheese powder getting everywhere.
  • pinuplove
    pinuplove Posts: 12,871 Member
    ToriMalt wrote: »
    As responses to this are coming in quicker than I can reply to, I'll just make one last clarification. I was in no way insulting, criticizing, or preaching to anyone. Simply looking for other like minded people. In fact, I was simply excited that I learned to make some awesome homemade flavored coffee creamer this morning without all the additives found in the store bought kind and I was looking for people to share that kind of thing with and who would share recipes and "hacks" like that with me. I never said I didn't eat anything processed. In fact I love diet mt dew and Cheetos, two of the worst foods there are. I just try to outweigh the bad choices with what I feel are better ones. And I did not coin the phrase "real food movement". I thought that anyone who watched food network or reads food blogs would be familiar with that phrase. It's just what it's called. Best wishes to everyone on their health journey, whatever that may look like.

    Unfortunately you've stumbled onto a hot button topic that's been discussed many times on these forums, so people can be a bit trigger-happy with their responses. @WinoGelato is right - these threads rarely go well. I hope you'll stick around, read the forums, and search past threads for inspiration.
  • beaglady
    beaglady Posts: 1,362 Member
    @ToriMalt no one is picking on you. Some topics just have a tendency to turn into heated arguments from both sides, and this is one of them. Don't take it personally, but historically, these things don't go well. That's all the longtime posters are saying.

    That being said, I'd love to hear more about your coffee creamer. I've tried creating a bunch of variations, and none of the ones that tasted good came in at fewer calories than half and half.
  • kommodevaran
    kommodevaran Posts: 17,890 Member
    Don't eat bad food.
  • beaglady
    beaglady Posts: 1,362 Member
    OK, here's a hack, since you have chickens. Every fall, my old, moulting hens turn into pints of delicious, rich chicken stock that I use all year for quick soups and stews. I hatch my own, so extra roosters have a similar fate as the base for soups and stews. If you don't have a pressure canner, you will want to get one.
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