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100 Days of Real Food
www.100daysofrealfood.com
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Recipe: Whole-Wheat Toaster Pastries (a.k.a. Pop Tarts!)

It’s no secret that my older daughter has an interest in pop tarts (since I recently shared on facebook that she’s apparently been “trading” at snack time to get some!) so clearly I had to do somethi...

48 min ago

A Week with the Leakes: Dinner and Treats

Here’s the last installment in our “Week with the Leakes” series where we took the time to photograph and record every single thing we ate for a week. In case you missed the first f...

6 days ago 2 people like this

A Week with the Leakes: Afternoon Snacks

Here is the third installment in our “A Week with the Leakes” series! If you haven’t already, check out the breakfast post and lunch post that we published last week. Also, please b...

22 may 12

A Week with the Leakes: Lunch

If you saw the “Breakfast” post earlier this week then you know as part of our new, very personal series entitled “A Week with the Leakes” we spent a full 7 days recording eve...

17 may 12 1 person likes this

Special Offer: “Clean Eating” Meal Plans from eMeals

I love offering my readers special deals and this one today is no exception. In case you haven’t heard of eMeals they are an online meal planning service that creates weekly dinner plans along with c...

16 may 12

A Week with the Leakes: Breakfast

As I shared on facebook last week we’ve been working on a project where we record and photograph every single thing our family eats for a week. I’ve been posting a lot of our kids’ ...

14 may 12 1 person likes this

How to Can Some Jam: A Simple Method Without Pectin or (Refined) Sugar

I hope this will be my first of several posts about how to “can” and preserve fresh foods when they are in season. I am a beginner canner myself, but have always been intrigued by and interested in t...

10 may 12 4 people like this

Recipe: Grilled Teriyaki Pork Tenderloin

We love teriyaki sauce at our house and find that it’s great in stir-fry, on fish like sea bass and salmon, and on meat like chicken or pork tenderloin. This particular teriyaki sauce was inspired by...

08 may 12 2 people like this

Real Food Tips: 3 Deceiving Food Products

When I give my “100 Days of Real Food” presentations I routinely bring along a grocery bag full of “tricky” food products to discuss. Here are a few the items I share: - 1. Garden Veggie Sticks Ingre...

03 may 12

Recipes Using Medjool Dates

Maybe I used to be living under a rock, but before our switch to “real food” I had never before purchased or cooked with dates. And I am just being honest here, but it’s possible I didn’t even know w...

30 apr 12 2 people like this

Recipe: Homemade Strawberry Ice Cream

- My husband used to think he didn’t like strawberry ice cream, and come to find out it’s because he’d never had “real” strawberry ice cream before…only the bright pink stuff out of a box. But once I...

26 apr 12 3 people like this

Food Babe Investigates: Why Chick-fil-A?

Note: This post has been modified since it’s original publication based on reader feedback. We value your opinion. Long before I became the Food Babe I used to be addicted to Chick-fil-A. I rem...

25 apr 12 2 people like this

School Lunch Roundup!

I’ve been sharing my kids’ school lunches on facebook quite frequently this year, and in an effort to put all those pictures in one easy-to-reference place they have all been reposted below. Also, I ...

19 apr 12 2 people like this

“Real Food” Condiments: Do They Exist?

I get a lot of questions about condiments. And surprisingly enough, condiments were one of the things I missed the most during our “100 Days of Real Food” pledge. They are like the little things you ...

17 apr 12 2 people like this

Newsflash: We are not “just fine”

If I could have a dollar every time someone said, “I grew up eating highly processed junk food, and I turned out just fine” then I would surely be rich. And another one I’ve been hearing an awful lot...

12 apr 12 1 person likes this

Real Food Tips: 4 Super Quick Wholesome Dinners

When your day just doesn’t go as planned or you simply don’t feel like cooking up a storm, here are four super easy “real food” dinners that can be whipped up in 15 minutes or less. That’s faster tha...

10 apr 12 1 person likes this

Food Babe Investigates: Supermarket Birthday Cakes

Today I’d like to introduce my very first “regular contributor” on the blog…Vani Hari a.k.a the Food Babe! Vani, a fellow “real food” blogger here in Charlotte, fi...

06 apr 12

Real Food Tips: 5 Ways to (Easily) Eat More Kale

If you want to eat local foods in the winter then you better figure out how to eat some big leafy greens like kale. Not to mention kale is packed with all sorts of good stuff for your body so if you ...

04 apr 12

Real Food Tips: 10 Items I Never Purchased Before Cutting Processed Food

I used to think we were fairly adventurous eaters and cooks. And even though I didn’t actually learn to cook until after college, once I did I quickly dabbled in everything from homemade egg rolls to...

02 apr 12 1 person likes this

Guest Post: Natural Easter Egg Dyes

Today I’ve asked a fellow “real food” blogger to share her natural Easter egg dye method with us…so please “meet” Christina with Spoonfed (a Jamie Oliver blog of t...

30 mar 12 1 person likes this

Kids eat processed food because parents give it to them (for the most part)

One thing we expected to gain from our family’s strict “100 Days of Real Food” pledge was a new perspective. And a new perspective we got. I am convinced that before cutting out all highly processed ...

23 mar 12 2 people like this

Cleaning Without Chemicals

This blog is obviously about eating real food, but as I’ve mentioned before I also get a lot of questions about “clean” beauty and household products as well. It seems like once you get “back to the ...

21 mar 12 2 people like this

Real Food Tips: 4 Hints for Using Freezie Pop Molds

I seem to get a lot of questions and feedback from readers about the reusable freezie pop molds that we use (and recommend). First of all, I have absolutely no relationship with the company whatsoeve...

19 mar 12 2 people like this

Recipe: Egg Soufflé

Eggs for breakfast, eggs for dinner, eggs for lunch…we definitely eat our fair share of eggs around here. And how can you blame us when eggs can so easily be reinvented a hundred times over whether y...

15 mar 12 1 person likes this

Real Food Tips: 7 Reasons I Hate Artificial Food Dyes

Artificial food dye, synthetic food dye, food coloring, FD&C Red No. 40, or Tartrazine (a.k.a. Yellow No. 5)… whatever name it’s listed under, it is all pretty much the same stuff. And as I’ve sa...

13 mar 12 3 people like this

Some Disturbing News Articles

I’ve come across an unusual amount of disturbing news articles lately and have been sharing them on facebook. Sure “ignorance is bliss” but now that I am no longer ignorant about this stuff I can’t h...

09 mar 12 3 people like this

Get Kids to Listen Without Nagging, Reminding or Yelling. Say what?!?

This is a little off-topic today, but it was too good – and too relevant for us personally – not to share. You see, I think my kids are pretty well behaved for the most part, but lately I seem to hav...

07 mar 12 1 person likes this

Recipe: Moroccan Fish with Mango and Couscous

This recipe is super easy and somewhat of a deviation from the typical lemon-juice flavored seafood entree. Get ready to enjoy some unique flavors and impress your family without spending hours in th...

05 mar 12 2 people like this

Recipe: Green Eggs {and Ham}

Until I had kids in school I never realized how many holidays and special occasions could be celebrated. Aside from the standard ones like Halloween and Valentine’s Day there’s also the 100th Day of ...

01 mar 12

Guest Post from my Husband: Real Food from a Man’s Perspective

by: Jason Leake Hello good people! After almost two years of editing every single post that has appeared on this blog, Lisa asked me to share my perspective on real food with you. My name is Jason, a...

29 feb 12 1 person likes this

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