What Real Food Bloggers Really Eat: Debra of Happy To Be Home

Today’s real food journal comes from Debra of Happy To Be Home, where she blogs about her journey to being a better homemaker.

Debra, could you tell us a bit about your real food journey?

When my husband, and I first got married, I thought we were eating pretty healthy. We ate whole foods, a decent bit of fresh produce, and I cooked a lot of things from scratch. I am amazed how much our diet has changed, though! The first big change was when I got pregnant.

My midwife taught about the importance of raw fruits and vegetables and recommended a diet of 70% raw fruits and vegetables. I never got to that extreme but BAM all of a sudden my shopping cart was no longer full of frozen bags of vegetables, it was almost all fresh. Our meat/poultry consumption also went from 1-2 servings a day to 3-5 a week. I was amazed about how much better we felt and that I didn’t get sick my whole pregnancy. (I was pregnant during the winter working at a daycare)

Since then I have cooked more and more from scratch. About 5 months ago we decreased our dairy, feeling it was giving my husband headaches and me stomach aches. (We recently started adding it back in but in healthier forms).

Then a few months ago I started learning about GMO’s, pesticides, herbicides, etc. We went almost 100% organic. We switched from the cheap meat to grass fed meat, wild fish, and organic poultry and pork. We are currently on the switch from supermarket organic to local. It has been a crazy couple of years, I am amazed about how much I DIDN’T know about nutrition. I hope to continue to learn and raise a healthy, well educated family. I want our grocery (and other) money to go to industries we want to support.

Eventually I hope to start soaking more of my grains as I have trouble digesting them. Right now though I have changed SOOO much about my housekeeping and meal preparation that I feel I can not handle that change also.

Day One

Breakfast– oatmeal with local raw goats milk (unsweetened)

Lunch– Cabbage Rolls (filled with brown rice, local grass fed beef, organic shoya sauce, local onion, and extra local cabbage) with Tomato Sauce

Snack– Local cucumbers and organic carrots with homemade White Bean Hummus

Dinner– Green Bean Casserole with a Green Salad and tomatoes

Snack – homemade bread (made by a friend) with raw honey, frozen organic grapes, and cookies (made by a friend)

Day Two

Breakfast– Fried Apples with Rhubarb on top of homemade bread

Snack– breakfast leftovers

Lunch– Tomato Sandwiches on homemade bread w/ homemade Easter Cheese and leftover Green Bean Casserole

Snack– eaten at friends

Dinner– Organic Chips with Homemade Salsa, Cabbage Rolls, Cucumbers, and Steamed Spinach with Shoya Sauce

Day Three

Breakfast– mango, grapes, and raw honey sweetened oatmeal

Lunch– Organic Chips and Homemade Salsa, Homemade Bread with Raw Honey and Homemade Raw Peanut Butter, Carrots and Cucumber

Dinner– Eaten at a Friend’s

Snack– Frozen Grapes

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Thank you, Debra, for sharing your food journal. Your journey reminds me so much of my own.

How do you do real food? If you are interested in sharing your Real Food Journal please contact me. I’d be glad to hear from you.