Category Archives: Newbie Tips

Real Food For Rookies

Are you a total newbie to the world of eating Real Food? Are you wondering just how to start making the changes to your diet that you know are necessary? Do you want to start eating healthier foods, but aren’t clear about how to prioritize your choices in the supermarket? Do you want to know how to fit Real Food into your busy schedule without growing broke?

Let me introduce you to Kelly The Kitchen Kop’s Real Food For Rookies E-Course. While there will be recipes, this isn’t a cooking class. This is an all-out introduction to eating Real Food, starting with the most basic first step of identifying fake foods and moving on from there with regular, attainable goals.

Health Benefits of Raw & Fermented Foods

She sat across the table from me enviously eying my salad. “I’d really love some vegetables right now,” she said. We started talking about her diet — the typical diet of the typical American. I told her that 60-80% of the diet of traditional people groups isn’t cooked. “Oh,” she interrupted, “I bet I don’t cook 60% of the food I eat.” She missed my point. She was talking about sandwiches and cold breakfast cereals, snack bars and cheese sticks. Let’s not beat around the bush, people. The Standard American Diet (SAD) is cooked. Aside from the occasional salad or piece of fruit, we just don’t eat raw foods. In fact, we fear them.

Grass-Fed Meats: Health Benefits

The best source for grass-fed meats online! According to a Mother Earth News story published last year, “Supermarket beef is an unnatural, industrial product. The good news is there are better and safer options.” Go read the full article for the low-down on precisely what I mean when I say industrialized cows are freaks of…

Healthy Fats: Is There Such A Thing?

Food Renegade Newbie Tip #2 Start Eating Healthy Fats. They’re not what you might think they are. If you’ve become a Label Nazi, you’ve probably noticed the perniciously pervasive oils that saturate the Standard American Diet (SAD) — corn & soybean oils. These oils — along with most vegetable oils — are primarily polyunsaturated fats…