Real Food Tales offers recipes, information and samples at Real Food demonstrations, tips on making better food choices, cooking videos and classes, guests, and ways to reduce sugar and ultra processed foods (UPFs).
What is Real Food?
It’s simple. Real Food is one-ingredient food such as an apple, broccoli, chicken, or banana. It’s usually recognized in a home kitchen and is easy to pronounce.
Real Food Tales invites you to rethink your eating habits, reduce sugar and UPFs, and return to the nourishing power of whole food ingredients.
Embrace a healthier, more sustainable approach to food for better overall health and wellness.
My grandparents, born in Italy, would never eat fast food even if alive today. They grew most of their own food and spices, and took great care preparing delicious-fresh foods. Whole nuts in shells were often on the table for cracking and snacking, fennel was served between courses to help with digestion, a large green salad was served with the meal, and baked-stuffed artichokes on holidays would melt in your mouth.
Telling the Real Food Story
If it’s about eating healthy it’s worth talking about. Real Food Tales is intended to enlighten people about what they are eating, how to make informed choices by reading the labels, and offer recipes with less sugar and minimal ultra processed foods.
- Is the food made of unknown ingredients that are hard to pronounce?
- Does it have nutritional value?
- How much sugar does it contain?
- Does it have more than 5 ingredients?
The total Recommended Daily Allowance of added sugar is
25-35 grams for an adult, or less than 10% of daily caloric intake.
Have we all been eating too much sugar while worrying about cholesterol, fat, and whether or not to eat bacon? At the very least people should be aware of how much added sugar they are ingesting per day and the facts about what sugar does to our bodies. Perhaps start learning about Diabetes or Pre-Diabetes and where that leads if unchecked in a few years. It’s not to late to eat better food, and usually the benefits start surfacing in less than a couple weeks.
About Kim
BIO: Kimberly Phillips has a background in computer technology with a passion for cooking ever since she was able to reach the stove. She is ServSafe Certified and currently enrolled in a Nutrition Coach program of study, and dedicated to the core.
Her Italian grandmother and mother ensured she learned how to cook traditional dishes perfectly, and helped her develop a love for fresh foods through a large Victory Garden. Kimberly tended her own Victory Garden almost every year since she was a child. She ate semi-vegetarian for ten years as a young adult and practiced Macrobiotics, a lifestyle and dietary approach focused on achieving balance in the body, mind, and spirit through mindful eating and living. Kimberly has studied nutrition independently for decades and enjoys utilizing her knowledge to help others.
Kimberly’s background is in computer technology, training, support, networking, web design, and graphic design. However, creating, editing, and producing videos has been her passion for decades. She is blending her skills with this endeavor and excited how it is all coming together.
| After becoming a member of Cape Media and taking the courses to become certified (which allows one to borrow equipment and use the studios), I started Real Food Tales, full of nutritional info, cooking lessons, guests, and guidance on eating less sugar and minimal ultra processed foods, and how to read nutritional labels. One thing led to another and I began  | It’s about Real Food! |