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Healthy Sheet Pan Dinner Recipe: Pizza Meatloaf

By Mary Voogt, NTP (Contributing Writer) / Published: 12/11/2023 / Updated: 12/06/2023

When I ask my family for meal ideas, 90% of the time they will give one of three answers: Waffles Pizza Lasagna What do these…

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“Just Add Water” Instant Pot Meals | Real Food While Traveling

By Katie Kimball @ Kitchen Stewardship® / Published: 11/29/2023 / Updated: 11/29/2023

I was talking to some friends the other day and one of them was very surprised that it was the more or less in the…

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Easy Homemade All-Purpose Spice Mix Recipe

By Mary Voogt, NTP (Contributing Writer) / Published: 11/15/2023 / Updated: 11/14/2023

I have a love-hate relationship with potlucks. I love them because you get to try new foods and you don’t have to cook a whole…

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Homemade Elderberry Gummies Recipe | Kid-Friendly Immune Booster

By Mary Voogt, NTP (Contributing Writer) / Published: 10/16/2023 / Updated: 10/11/2023

Does anyone else hate the phrase “flu season”? It’s really misleading. God created four beautiful seasons, none of which has an attribute of illness. I…

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How to Tenderize Tough Cuts of Meat | Velveting Meat

By Katie Kimball @ Kitchen Stewardship® / Published: 10/09/2023 / Updated: 10/05/2023

Is there anything worse than biting into a piece of beef, just to find yourself chewing … and chewing … and chewing? I’m picky about…

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Air Fryer Crispy Chickpeas Recipe | Healthy Snack for Kids!

By Mary Voogt, NTP (Contributing Writer) / Published: 09/18/2023 / Updated: 09/18/2023

Cooking real food meals – not too hard. Providing your kids with real food snacks every day – nearly impossible! If your kids are like…

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Easy Recipe for Sourdough Bread | Beginner-Friendly Sourdough Focaccia Bread

By Stephani Jenkins / Published: 09/11/2023 / Updated: 09/07/2023

Years ago, when I started making sourdough bread, I envisioned beautiful round loaves, dusted in white rice flour and decorated with intricate floral patterns slashed…

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Easy Refrigerator Pickles Recipe

By Mary Voogt, NTP (Contributing Writer) / Published: 08/21/2023 / Updated: 08/25/2023

Have you ever grown cucumbers? If so, you know that just one plant produces an insane amount of cucumbers. You pretty much need to have…

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Dairy-Free Zucchini Muffin Recipe

By Stephani Jenkins / Published: 08/14/2023 / Updated: 08/03/2023

I looked for a dairy-free, healthy zucchini bread muffin for years. The internet is full of baked goods that you can stuff with grated zucchini,…

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Instant Pot Creamy Veggie Pasta Recipe | Gluten-Free, Dairy-Free

By Mary Voogt, NTP (Contributing Writer) / Published: 07/17/2023 / Updated: 07/12/2023

The middle of summer – fresh veggies abound! But you also are either super busy preserving or just out enjoying the nice weather. It’s too…

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Gluten-Free Air Fryer Salmon Patties Recipe

By Mary Voogt, NTP (Contributing Writer) / Published: 06/19/2023 / Updated: 06/26/2023

Growing up, eating fish meant one thing – my dad was out of town on a business trip. He detested the smell of fish -…

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Instant Pot Carnitas Recipe

By Stephani Jenkins / Published: 06/12/2023 / Updated: 06/13/2023

Tacos are my family’s favorite dinner. After 15 years of living on a budget and eating real food, I learned that they are the perfect…

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Dairy-Free Simple Strawberry Sorbet Recipe

By Mary Voogt, NTP (Contributing Writer) / Published: 05/15/2023 / Updated: 05/13/2023

Frozen treats aren’t typically the first thing on your mind in winter. Neither are strawberries. But winter is when this simple strawberry sorbet was created.…

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Instant Pot Smashed Potatoes

By Stephani Jenkins / Published: 05/08/2023 / Updated: 05/08/2023

Smashed potatoes are my family’s new favorite potato side dish. We’ve tried all the classics: mashed potatoes, baked potatoes, roasted potatoes, homemade fries. Honestly, it’s…

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Instant Pot Tomato Soup Recipe

By Stephani Jenkins / Published: 04/10/2023 / Updated: 02/06/2024

This tomato soup is a real food crowd-pleaser at my house. It is budget-friendly simple food at its best, and you can make it in…

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Instant Pot Honey-Mustard Salmon with Potatoes Recipe

By Stephani Jenkins / Published: 03/13/2023 / Updated: 01/12/2024

Let’s talk about how hard it is to make dinner every night. We are the kind of family that rarely eats out, so we eat…

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Quick Ground Beef Recipes: Instant Pot Sloppy Joes

By Stephani Jenkins / Published: 02/13/2023 / Updated: 02/10/2023

If we’re talking about pure comfort food and classic family-friendly meals that you can make in the Instant Pot, I’m gonna talk about sloppy joes.…

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Quick and Healthy Instant Pot Ground Turkey Recipe

By Stephani Jenkins / Published: 01/09/2023 / Updated: 01/13/2023

Soup season is my very favorite time of the year for frugal, real food cooking. All you need to make really delicious soup is a…

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Seasonal Orange Creamsicle Smoothie Recipe

By Mary Voogt, NTP (Contributing Writer) / Published: 12/19/2022 / Updated: 03/28/2023

It’s not often that I am able to go on a one-on-one date with any of my kids. Life is just so busy! So when…

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Whole Wheat Chocolate Chip Peanut Butter Cookie Recipe

By Stephani Jenkins / Published: 12/12/2022 / Updated: 12/12/2022

Homemade chocolate chip peanut butter cookies – they are so so good, and not too hard to make a little healthier! I love dessert, and…

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Real Food Recipes Archives (2024)

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What is the oldest dish still eaten? ›

The World's 10 Oldest Dishes And Where They Are Today
  • Indian curry, circa 2200-2500 B.C. ...
  • Pancakes, circa 11650 B.C. ...
  • Linzer Torte, circa 1653. ...
  • Tamales, circa 5000 B.C. ...
  • Burgers, circa 100 century A.D. ...
  • Mesopotamian Stew, circa 2140 B.C., and bone broth, circa 400 B.C. ...
  • Rice dishes, circa 4530 B.C. ...
  • Beer, circa 3500 B.C.
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Which is the oldest food in the world? ›

Bread is considered to be first prepared probably some 30000+ years back and is one of the very first foods made by mankind. The earliest proof of making bread loaf occurred with the Natufian hunter-gatherers that lived in the Levant.

What is the oldest known cooking? ›

With all the evidence together, researchers concluded that these ancient human relatives had used fire for cooking some 780,000 years ago. That is much earlier than the next oldest evidence for cooking, about 170,000 years ago, which showed Stone Age humans ate cooked roots in South Africa.

What did people 10000 years ago eat? ›

Plants - These included tubers, seeds, nuts, wild-grown barley that was pounded into flour, legumes, and flowers. Since they had discovered fire and stone tools, it is believed that they were able to process and cook these foods.

What did humans eat 3000 years ago? ›

They likely grew and consumed food from the 'transported landscape' in the new soil, but appear to have relied more heavily on a mixture of reef fish, marine turtles, fruit bats, and domestic land animals.

What did Jesus eat? ›

To be specific, Jesus drank water and wine, ate only whole grain bread, abstained from pork and shellfish, and ate large quantities of healthy foods like olive oil, grapes, figs, pomegranates, various kinds of vegetables, and fish. This is “the Jesus way of eating” [p.

What is the oldest leftover food ever eaten? ›

The remnants of what may be the world's oldest cooked meal from 70,000 years ago came from a cave in northern Iraq. The findings challenge the assumptions that those distant cousins of humans, Neanderthals, consumed only berries and raw meat.

What is the oldest survival food? ›

In this article, we break down the origins story of the original North American survival food: Pemmican. The Carnivore Bar has a rich history rising from the evolution of a traditional food source called pemmican.

What was the first meal ever made? ›

Humanity's earliest known cooked meal was a 6.5-foot fish | CNN.

Who was the first human to cook? ›

A new study, published in Nature Ecology and Evolution, suggests that early humans first cooked food around 780,000 years ago. Before now, the earliest evidence of cooked food was around 170,000 years ago, with early hom*o sapiens and Neanderthals using fire to cook vegetables and meat.

What is the oldest known casserole? ›

Macaroni and cheese is the oldest written casserole recipe found in 1250.

What generation eats out the most? ›

One category of spending tracked by the BLS is food away from home. Gen Xers spend more at restaurants and on takeout than other age groups, but food away from home represents a larger share of millennials' total spending.

Which generation eats the most fast food? ›

For one, Gen Z is the most likely age group to eat at fast-food restaurants frequently – 26% dine at fast-food chains weekly, and another 40% do so monthly (compared to 22% and 32% of the Gen Pop).

What food do Gen Z eat? ›

Young people, like people of all ages, enjoy burgers, pizza, chicken, sandwiches, salad, and fruit. And the younger they are, the more simple they like it, according to restaurant-hospitality.com. From middle school and beyond, their tastes broaden to include more flavors, combinations, and global variety.

What did people eat 1,000 years ago? ›

Porridge, gruel, and later bread became the basic staple foods that made up the majority of calorie intake for most of the population. From the 8th to the 11th centuries, the proportion of various cereals in the diet rose from about a third to three-quarters.

What did humans eat 50000 years ago? ›

By the time modern humans emerged roughly 50,000 years ago, our ancestors had adopted an omnivorous diet of cooked starches, meats (including organs), nuts, fruit and other plant foods.

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