Real Food Blogger Face-Off

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Have you seen the new series from Katie @ Kitchen Stewardship? It’s the Real Food Blogger Face-Off, where she’s pairing up over two dozen real food bloggers, including me. She asked us questions about real food and the way we eat and shares those answers in a twice weekly series.

The series runs every Tuesday and Thursday, beginning last week with fabulous start featuring Ren @ Edible Aria and Jo-Lynn @ Musings of a Housewife. That one was so good!

And, hey, my day is today! You’ll also meet Rachel @ Titus 2 Homemaker. So be sure to check out today’s Real Food Blogger Face-Off.

Since Katie can’t use all the answers to all the questions – and she gave us some great questions! – I’ll share the other of my questions and answers here. For the rest of the story (and to meet Rachel, too) visit today’s face-off post.

What is the worst food (or “food”) a person could possibly put into their systems?

I believe that animal foods grown the wrong way (in confinement and on unnatural diets) are the worst foods. This is because the nutrient profile completely changes due to the animal’s environment, but also because our society consumes so much of them – magnifying their effects on our bodies.

Name the top food scoring highest on both the nutritional and budget scale? (i.e., best health benefits for the lowest cost)

Making our own dairy kefir is cheap for us because we raise dairy goats, and it’s healthy, with up to 50 different strains of beneficial probtiotics. But if you have to buy the raw milk to make it, I think it is still cheaper to make it yourself than buy ready made. And then there’s stock… use up those extra animal parts and make yourself a health elixir for mere pennies.

What do you refuse to buy at a grocery store that you do eat from its source?

Ha, ha, that’s easy: milk! We went without milk for many years until we started raising our own goats. When we were on vacation, the grocery store choices made us sick; we couldn’t find anything that wasn’t homogenized and ultra-pasteurized.

When eating out, how do make your menu decision (fav “out” food, anything you avoid)?

Since we don’t have any good eating out choices nearby (of which I’m aware), we are choosing between something poor and something poorer. So we eat what we want, and ask God to bless us and those who are serving us.

Number one tip you tell your blog readers about eating healthy foods:

Keep it simple. Ask yourself a basic question about any food: how did God design this food to be raised and consumed? Then eat it that way.