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Let's Get Real

On Let’s Get Real Chef Erica Wides walks you down the aisles of the surreal world of food, serving up a heaping dose of reality by separating the food from the foodiness so you can forage, hunt, gathe... Read more

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Episode 46: If Diets Worked Kirstie Alley Would Stay Thin

Episode 46: If Diets Worked Kirstie Alley Would Stay Thin

On this week’s episode of Let’s Get Real, Erica Wides is joined in the studio by nutritionist and food writer Kristin Wa... Read more

16 Oct 2012

37mins

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Episode 59: If You Think Chewing Energy Gum Will Help You Rock Climb, You Deserve To Fall

Episode 59: If You Think Chewing Energy Gum Will Help You Rock Climb, You Deserve To Fall

What “food” product do Americans spend 2.7 billion dollars on per year? Gum! This week on Let’s Get Real, Erica Wides is... Read more

19 Mar 2013

27mins

Ranked #3

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Episode 144: These Foolish Things…Remind Me of U..tah.

Episode 144: These Foolish Things…Remind Me of U..tah.

From Erica Wides herself: Speaking of soda, and Mormons, (we are, in today’s show) in yesterday’s edition of the paper o... Read more

1 Dec 2015

33mins

Ranked #4

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Episode 150: We’re 150, But We Don’t Look a Day Over 100!

Episode 150: We’re 150, But We Don’t Look a Day Over 100!

On this 15oth episode of Let’s Get Real, host Erica Wides opens with a revelation she had about cooking while swimming, ... Read more

1 Mar 2016

32mins

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Episode 53: Omega 3’s Come From Fish, Not Cookies

Episode 53: Omega 3’s Come From Fish, Not Cookies

Today’s Let’s Get Real is all about fake food nutrition- stuff like enhanced peanut butter & low-fat dairy. Well, Er... Read more

9 Jan 2013

38mins

Ranked #6

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Episode 54: Jews Don’t Control the Media, Foodiness Does

Episode 54: Jews Don’t Control the Media, Foodiness Does

Propaganda creates reality. Foodiness exists because we continue to consider it real food. Erica is here to continue in ... Read more

22 Jan 2013

32mins

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Episode 156: We Hold These Foodiness Truths to be Self-Evident...

Episode 156: We Hold These Foodiness Truths to be Self-Evident...

Here, in corporate Big Food America, we apparently hold certain Foodiness truths to be self-evident, which is that all i... Read more

24 May 2016

30mins

Ranked #8

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Episode 134: Tales of Foodiness Fishiness

Episode 134: Tales of Foodiness Fishiness

Anyone that says that they don’t like to eat fish have probably only ever eaten tilapia, which is the worst fish ever ac... Read more

14 Jul 2015

40mins

Ranked #9

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Episode 143: There’s no Crying over Spilled Green Juice

Episode 143: There’s no Crying over Spilled Green Juice

This week’s episode of _ Let’s Get Real _, as explained by host Erica Wides herself: So just imagine my joy and happines... Read more

24 Nov 2015

34mins

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Episode 132: Can it GET any more sarcastic around here today?

Episode 132: Can it GET any more sarcastic around here today?

Erica Wides is not alone in the #foodiness shelter this week! On today’s episode of Let’s Get Real Erica is joined by Th... Read more

17 Jun 2015

40mins

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Episode 133: Body

Episode 133: Body

Did you know that more than half of America’s kids are chronically dehydrated? Yup. Know why? Foodiness drinks; like Spo... Read more

23 Jun 2015

32mins

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Episode 154: I’m Not Licking MY Fingers…

Episode 154: I’m Not Licking MY Fingers…

Today, an ALL-NEW episode of Let's Get Real! Yes, it's a new show, after a long break to develop the new weekly Heritage... Read more

3 May 2016

32mins

Ranked #13

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Episode 149: One of These Things Does Not Belong

Episode 149: One of These Things Does Not Belong

On this week’s Let’s Get Real, the theme is “one of these things does not belong.” Chef Erica Wides reminisces about the... Read more

23 Feb 2016

32mins

Ranked #14

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Episode 135: The Raw and the Burnt

Episode 135: The Raw and the Burnt

What does the word “done” mean to you? Is it a raw slab of red meat served as is on a plate, or do you like it cooked in... Read more

21 Jul 2015

32mins

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Episode 142: La Dolce Vita Snickerdoodle

Episode 142: La Dolce Vita Snickerdoodle

Today, on a new Let’s Get Real! Erica Wides: “In Italy, in 1984 I drank my first cappuccino, I’d never really had anythi... Read more

10 Nov 2015

31mins

Ranked #16

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Episode 141: The 2nd (or 3rd) Annual Golden Uncrustables!

Episode 141: The 2nd (or 3rd) Annual Golden Uncrustables!

Live from the Foodiness Fallout Shelter…It’s the 2nd or 3rd annual (I can’t remember) Golden Uncrustables awards show! S... Read more

3 Nov 2015

30mins

Ranked #17

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Episode 140: Does Foodiness cause wrinkles?

Episode 140: Does Foodiness cause wrinkles?

Does Foodiness cause wrinkles? Erica Wides is back with a heartfelt episode on apples, aging, Laura Ingalls, Ira Apfel a... Read more

20 Oct 2015

31mins

Ranked #18

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Episode 136: Fear No Food!

Episode 136: Fear No Food!

Why are Americans so afraid of food? We are so afraid of the safeness of the food that we are eating, that it’s preventi... Read more

28 Jul 2015

32mins

Ranked #19

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Episode 152: To Everything There Is a Season, and a Dry, Crumbly Cookie to Match

Episode 152: To Everything There Is a Season, and a Dry, Crumbly Cookie to Match

On this week's episode of Let's Get Real, Erica celebrates the eve of the joyous holiday of Purim, aka "The Jewish Hallo... Read more

22 Mar 2016

30mins

Ranked #20

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Episode 153: Cod Worms

Episode 153: Cod Worms

I like to write, and I like to talk into a microphone. And I also like to talk in front of a live audience, I’ve discove... Read more

29 Mar 2016

22mins

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