I thought it would be nice to have a post listing resources for the Real Food Challenge. So I compiled a list of: links from our blogs and other blogs, websites for great shops to buy good stuff from, links to articles and websites that have tons of great info and an extensive book listing including cookbooks and more. Feel free to add any great resources in the comment section. I’ll keep adding links as I find them so keep checking back, the list will only get better!
A few Great Articles & Resources:
Drink that Milk, Eat those Peas – a great article from the Weston A Price foundation on transitioning your family to a healthier diet.
Against the Grain – great info about bread and grain
Mother Earth News Real Food Section – all kinds of good information on real food
Why Butter is Better – a wonderful article from the Weston A Price foundation about enjoying real butter.
How-To/Make Your Own Posts from Chiot’s Run.
Make Your Own: Brown Sugar
Make Your Own: Baking Powder
Make Your Own: Ghee
Make Your Own: Butter
Make Your Own: Preserved Lemons
Make Your Own: Ketchup
Make Your Own: Sauerkraut
Make Your Own: Canned Tomato Soup
Make Your Own: Sourdough Pancakes
A few links from Jennifer’s Blog:
Accepting the Challenge
Incorporating Family and the Challenge
Realities: Grains
Realities: Fruits and Veggies
Realities: Oils
Realities: Milk & Meat
Recipe: Skinless Sweet Potato Skins
Recipes: Yogurt, Cheese, and Whey
Sourdough and Wild Yeast recipes:
Wild Yeast Blog
Northwest Sourdough
Sourdough Recipes from Richard Packham
Make Your Own Sourdough Starter
Baking Artisan Bread:
Upper Crust Bread Recipe & How-To
Quick Artisan Bread
Easy No-Knead Crusty Bread from Mother Earth News
Peter Reinhart’s Whole Grain Breads: New Techniques, Extraordinary Flavor
The Bread Baker’s Apprentice: Mastering the Art of Extraordinary Bread
Cracker Recipes from Jennifer’s link file:
Spelt Everything Crackers
Poppy & Parmesan Cheese Crackers
Sesame Semolina Flatbreads
Lavash Armenian Flatbread
Cooking/Baking Blogs:
Refrigerator Soup: has recipes from many food blogs, great place to find new cooking & food blogs
Smitten Kitchen
Nourishing Days: Nourishing Traditions recipes
Cheese Slave – blog about traditional food, slow food, and food politics
The Nourishing Gourmet – blogging about nourishing food
The Chicken Coop – a great listing of nourishing traditions recipe links
101 Cookbooks – a great resource for vegetarian & vegan recipes.
Cooking with Dried Beans:
Here’s some great info about soaking beans and grains.
The Weston A Price Foundation has a great in depth article on the healthfulness of beans and soaking methods.
How to Make You Own Milk Alternatives:
Making Rice Milk at Home
How to Make Almond Milk at Home
Organic Spices, Teas, Essential Oils, Bulk Ingredients and Non-Toxic Toiletries:
Mountain Rose Herbs
Bulk Nuts, Dried Fruits and other Staples both Organic and Conventional:
Nuts Online (contact me (Susy) and I can get you a 10% off coupon)
Finding Local and Non-Local Sources for Food from Small Growers/Producers including Farmer’s Markets:
Local Harvest
Eat Wild – find local sources of grass-fed meats
Eat Well Guide – type in your zip code to find local sources for healthy food
Places to find information on food, food safety, food legislation, etc:
Weston A Price Foundation – a wealth of information on healthy food.
Organic Consumers Association – information on processed foods, companies, and food legislation
Union of Concerned Scientists – great article on CAFO meats
Real Milk Campaign
Great Cookbooks:
For the More Adventurous/Advanced Cooks:
For More Reading about Food:
Other Great Reading:
Do you have any great resources to add?
OK I already had coffee,this is where better planning on my part would help. Tomorrow I am going to try a smoothy instead.
Yes, Simply in Season (which I’m cooking through on my blog). Great selection though!
Thanks, I’ll add it to the list and get it from the library to give it a read through!
Just a thank you for this post, I’m reasonably sure you spent a few hours amassing all the data and wish to let you know I appreciate your time as well as the information. Job well done.
Thanks, I’m a link saver, I have a delicious account full of all kinds of recipes, links & books. Figured it would be a great way to organize them all in one place for this challenge. I’ll keep adding links as I find them.
What a fantastic resource! Thank you so much for compiling this list. I’ve bookmarked it for reference.
Susy, Jo’s website EATWILD has sources for grass fed meats in all states. “specifically for OHIO” might be confusing for readers in other states.
Thanks, I’ll change that.
Thanks for all those links! I always forget about localharvest.org. I checked it out again today and found new members. There’s even a local goat cheese maker not far from me.
You might want to add The Vegetarian Myth to your list of readings. I haven’t read it yet, but it sounds so promising.
What a fantastic resource! I can’t wait to dive into it all!
OH WOW! Thanks! Now I have a new reading list to work on. 😀
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http://www.veganreader.com/2009/05/17/how-to-make-rice-milk-and-stop-supporting-rice-dream/
Making rice milk. I got a few scoops of long grain brown rice to try it out so once our organic soy milk is gone I can make it. 🙂
Thanks so much, I’ll add it in the link above along with this one for making Almond Milk: http://sogoodandtasty.blogspot.com/2010/02/homemade-almond-milk.html
Thanks for all the information. I have started going through you links…..there is a lot to read and learn.
You mentioned sharing the information on the co-op you use (in a previous post). Is that “nuts online” – it didn’t seem like a co-op to me…or is that yet to come.
I really want to start increasing beans and grains into our food. I started with Bulgar wheat a few days ago, but still need to learn how to soak and add to breads.
Thanks again for all the time that went into your post. (for that matter all the info on this blog!)
Emily
Thanks for your comment. The co-op that I’m a part of is just a local buying club of people, it’s actually my sister’s co-op, I just buy with my sister. There’s one lady that runs it and we e-mail our orders to her once a month. She lets us know what’s on sale. Generally we have to buy things in bulk, 25 lbs of beans, etc. Usually we try to find people to split our orders with. There are other kinds of co-ops that are stores as well. Where you pay a membership fee and you buy your bulk items from the store. Only member can shop at the store and you get a discounted price on the items you buy. I would search on Google for co-ops in your area, and talk to local healthful eaters. It seems you can always find someone you know that know of a co-op. Even your local chiropractor might know of one, they often deal in healthy foods. You can also search for local co-op stores on localharvest.org. Here’s a great list of co-ops as well. http://www.coopdirectory.org/directory.htm
Wow! That’s a lot of amazing resources! Thank you so much for taking the time to list them all here. I am a big fan of NT and love to discover new recipes!
I’m tagging this for later. I love it, but I don’t have time today to check all the links. You’ve done a ton of work; thanks!
Wow! What a wonderful treasure trove of resources! Thanks!!!
Thanks for all the links! I would really recommend looking at/including on your book list Hugh Fearnley-Whittingstall-and-Fizz Carr’s _The River Cottage Family Cookbook_ – it was really the springboard for me to start making from scratch. Since it’s written with the whole family in mind, the instructions are really thorough, and there are long prose sections explaning the sort of theoretical side of things and getting you to think about where your food comes from and what’s ethical and how you can grow your own even with little space and no experience – a very DIY and inclusive, encouraging attitude. Very beginner-friendly.
Thanks so much for all the fabulous information. I know what I’ll be doing on my lunch hour today, checking out all of these links and now I have a new reading list to take to the library.
Wonderful! Thanks so much.
Wow really fantastic selection, very comprehensive. Especially love your book lists! I have to add this to my real food resources roundup! Thanks so much.
Hi there. I just stumbled upon your terrific site while looking for dandelion recipes. I love it! While I post my blog this weekend, I will try to add your badge. What a terrific resource. As a pastured meats farmer, I try to seek out other folks eating and learning about real food.
Thank you for your efforts.
Stephanie