About Me

Hello world!

My name is Carolyn Hansen.  I am the wife of a good ol’ country boy, and the mother to two sweet, energetic boys.  I love baking, cooking, reading, crafting, and playing the piano.

Confession… this pictures is almost 6 years old. I don’t have any other good, recent pictures of just me. I’ll update as soon as I can.

Welcome to a peek at my attempts at real food in real life.

I came across the idea of eating a real food diet through DaNelle Wolford over at Weed ’em and Reap.  The more I read about the benefits of eating real food the more I liked what I saw.  And it fit perfectly with our dreams of having a homestead.  Being able to raise and eat our own real food. *sigh* Heaven.

We’ve only been trying to eat a real foods diet for the roughly the last two months.  It has been easier than I thought it would be, but in other ways more difficult than I thought.

Because my Mom taught me how to cook, from scratch, while I was young I have always been one to cook a lot for my family.  Making our favorite foods “real” foods hasn’t been that big of a deal.  I just am learning to find substitutes, or home made versions, of the processed foods I used before.  Some recipes/ingredients are easier than others.  It’s all a learning process.

This is us in real life, on a real budget, eating real food.

I can’t promise a post every day, especially right at first.  Life happens.  Taking care of my two boys, ages 3 and 1.75, can take all my time and energy.  Some days my biggest success is just getting everyone dressed, let alone cooking fantastic, blog worthy, meals every day.  I am aiming to post at least twice a week.  Hopefully on Tuesdays and Fridays.

If you have any questions about how we do real, traditional food you can email me at: