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    Real Food Family is your complete source for sound whole food nutritional guidance, meal planning and natural living. Do you feel overwhelmed with the all the contradictory information out there about health and nutrition?  Well, I was too!  I thought I was a super-healthy, nutrition-minded professional dancer 10 years ago.  Now that I look back, [...]

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    Nutritional Therapy Services

    Rozlyn Mignogna is a Certified Nutritional Therapy Practitioner (NTP), trained to address people’s individual needs and use natural, yet very specific, approaches to improve overall health. Are you interested in your natural options in maintaining optimum health?  Nutritional Therapy goes beyond diet and exercise, offering customized and highly effective natural approaches to each patient’s specific [...]

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    Real Food Weekly Meal Plans

    Real Food Family’s Real Food Weekly Mailer is a perfect way to keep your family on a whole food diet and lifestyle.  Certified Nutritional Therapy Practitioner, Roz Mingonga (NTP), creates four dinner meals plus extra recipes every week that are wholesome, nourishing, nutritious and delicious.  Recipes focus on real, whole foods that are in perfect [...]

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    Chemical-Free Home- NOW!

    Get the “real dirt” on clean. Is your home dirtier after you clean it? You wouldn’t let your kids play with toxic chemicals, so why would you let your baby crawl across a floor that’s just been wiped with them? Bring Shaklee Get Clean into your home, and you can count on cleansers that are [...]

Welcome to Real Food Family!

I'm a Broadway performer turned family homesteader. I'm a Nutritional Therapy Practitioner (NTP) and Birth Doula CD(DONA) with a bachelor's degree in Health Arts and Sciences, focusing on family health culture in America.  I'm a "crunchy" mama, devoted to sustainable living, and I'm always bringing new farm animals to the homestead. Real Food Family  is a hub for everything related to nourishing whole foods and natural living. I'm here to talk about real family life- eating, cleaning, having fun, and trying to live a life that not only nourishes the body, but nourishes the soul. Click here to learn more about Real Food Family or Click here to GET STARTED with Real Food Family!

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Super Moons and Super Mama

My (older) baby girl had her 4th birthday party last weekend.  As most moms often say, “where the heck did the time go??”  The night of her party was “Super Moon Saturday” and while the pictures I saw being posted online were pretty cool, the moon I checked out before dropping dead in my bed [...]

Q&A Video: Diabetes/”Pre”-Diabetes & Coconut Oil

Here’s our latest Q&A With the Doctor and Daughter: Episode 2, Part 1: Diabetes/”Pre”-Diabetes & Coconut Oil Enjoy! Need Help Planning Your Weekly Meals? Want to make REAL FOOD a REALITY in your home?  Real Food Weekly is a weekly meal planning subscription that answers the question of “What’s for Dinner?” – Stay on track [...]

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Strawberry Shortcake Tiramisu

Strawberry Shortcake Tiramisu Print Recipe type: Dessert Author: Real Food Family Ingredients 3-4 cups strawberries, sliced (about 20-25 strawberries) juice of 1 lemon 2 tablespoons balsamic vinegar 2 tablespoons sugar, plus ¼ cup 3 egg yolks 8 ounces mascarpone cheese, at room temperature 1 ½ cups heavy whipping cream 1, 8-ounce package of freeze-dried strawberries, [...]

Chicken Enchiladas with Sweet Pepper Sauce

Chicken Enchiladas with Sweet Pepper Sauce

Chicken Enchiladas with Sweet Pepper Sauce Print Recipe type: Entree Author: Real Food Family Cook time: 45 mins Total time: 45 mins Ingredients Ingredients: ¼ cup butter or extra virgin olive oil 2 bell peppers, seeded and chopped 1 onion, chopped 2 tablespoons tomato paste salt and pepper ¼ cup chicken stock (water may be [...]

Chicken Pazole

Cinco de Mayo Meal Plan

Real Food Weekly Issue ~ May 5, 2012            “Cinco de Mayo” Happy Cindo de Mayo! What a great excuse to party with some Mexican flavors this week!  I have a few of my Mexican-style recipes here, plus some delicious staples emphasizing sweet potatoes, which are excellent for stabilizing blood sugar, and herbs.  The extra recipe, [...]

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Chicken Picatta

Pea Pod Meal Plan

Real Food Weekly Issue ~ April 28, 2012 “Pea Pod”  Have you noticed how much I love the “fruits” of spring? I was inspired for this week’s recipes by spring’s brightest veggie- the pea!  I’m also inspired by all things bright and green right now, so you could easily substitute peas and asparagus with other [...]

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Grilled Steak and Asparagus

Fresca Meal Plan

Real Food Weekly Issue ~ April 21, 2012 “Fresca” Oh boy, it’s been hot here in Southern Cali! I themed this week “Fresca” because I used fresh local flavors and bright, wholesome basic ingredients to create absolutely delicious original recipes.  I get excited with every new recipe I make…that’s a good thing, right? The recipes [...]

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Teriyaki Roasted Chicken

Asian Spring Meal Plan

Real Food Weekly Issue ~ April 14, 2012 “Asian Spring” I’ve been doing a lot of European-style cuisine lately, but this week has some Asian inspiration.  This food isn’t perfectly authentic, and it is definitely not American-style Chinese restaurant food, but it is full of fresh vegetables and flavor combinations of the far East that [...]

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Herb Roasted Lamb Chops with Asparagus

Easter Week Meal Plan

Real Food Weekly Issue ~ April 7, 2012 “Easter Week” Can you believe it is already Easter!  I hope you have an absolutely beautiful holiday celebrating renewal, rebirth, and resurrection!  Maybe you’ll have enough time to get your shopping done and make these guest-pleasing recipes on Easter Sunday.  If not, they are still delicious springtime [...]

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Strawberry Tiramisu

Spring Forward Meal Plan

Real Food Weekly Issue ~ March 31, 2012 “Spring Forward”  Our farmer’s markets and farm stands are bursting at the seams with fresh spring produce.  The best part of this season at our house is the rich, ripe and delicious organic strawberries available for just a window of time.  Asparagus is also something I’ll only [...]

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