This week brings the exciting inaugural episode of Erica Wides's new show Let's Get Real so turn on your AC because the kitchen is about to get real hot. Back in the day you knew the difference between junk food (candy) and food (vegetables); between food that we knew what it was (apples) and food that we didn’t want to know (Twinkies). This is where Erica comes in each week to 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, gather, trap and fish for real food anywhere, even in a foodiness-filled mega market. This special first episode is brought to you by The Hearst Ranch.

You think you know bread, but think again. Tune in to this week's episode of Let's Eat In and hear how foodiness has hi-jacked the symbol and fabric of life. How did Wonder Bread ruin everything? What was bread like in the days of Moses? How did Julia Child's matzah recipe help shape our fearless hostess's life? Listen in and find out! This program was sponsored by Fairway Market.

"How has the ultimate symbol of life been hijacked by foodiness?"

"Wonder Bread is the least wonderful bread imaginable"

"The industrialization of wheat flour along with the loss of thousands of diverse species of wheat in our quest for a super species of wheat brought terrible change and loss to our bread lives."

--Erica Wides on Let's Get Real

This week on Let's Get Real it's time to take the replacement out of meal replacements. From purees to shakes to powders we are assaulted every day by the promise of easy and convenient 'food' from Special K bars to Pediasure for kids. Tune in to find out what you're really ingesting with those body building mixes (answer: it's a lot of lead) and single serving Trader Joe's meals and learn the simple things you can do to pull yourself out of this rabbit-whole of whole-meal replacement. This episode is sponsored by S. Wallace Edwards & Sons.

"The idea that people use meal replacement powders and shakes for nutrition . . . it's ridiculous! Food is nutrition."

--Erica Wides on Let's Get Real