Macrobiotics and Me

Good evening!

I have eaten the most delicious food today and as a result I am feeling very nourished and happy :O)

Breakfast

Miso soup made with onion, wakame, carrot, sprouts & watercress

Barley porridge/congee made with onion, carrot, spring greens, miso & toasted pumpkin seeds

Bancha tea

Lunch

Spring greens & broccoli with mustard dressing, nishime carrot & squash & red quinoa

Mid afternoon snack

Strawberry kanten & a cup of red bush & earl grey tea with barley malt

Dinner

The most delicious aduki cottage pie with a millet mash topping. This was sooo soooo soooo yummy!  I am feeling very pleased that I was able to control myself too and not completely over eat. Yay!!  I had this with some steamed spring greens mixed with sauerkraut.

I made a rhubarb and apple crumble and it seemed like a crime not to have any so I had some with a dollop of millet amazake

Ahhh!!! :O)

I really must post some recipes soon. Please let me know if there are any particular ones you’d like me to post.

Love & light

Sharlene

Good Evening!

I didn’t have much time this morning to prepare food for the day ahead so I cooked up some brown rice for breakfast and lunch and settled with the decision to cook a nice dinner in the evening.

Breakfast

Miso soup made with carrot and leek

Brown rice

Nettle & mint tea

Lunch

Brown rice with furikake and home made carrot and daikon pickles

Bancha tea

Dinner

Red quinoa, roasted salmon, daikon, nishime carrot & squash, purple sprouting brocolli with a mustard dressing & spring greens

Strawberry kanten (:O) ahhhh!!!

Grain coffee

I took some photos but I’ll upload them tomorrow.

Tonight I am going to make a salt pack to put over my spleen which I know will love it!

Macro love

Sharlene

Hello!

It’s good to be back after another incredible weekend studying in Devon. I always leave feeling like I have so much knowledge & information to take away with me. But it’s not just knowledge, it’s more than that. It’s invaluable knowledge that I can use for improving my own life and health and later, when the time is right, for helping to improve the lives of others. Ahhh, yay!!

Discovering macrobiotics was amazing but the macro school has created another approach to macrobiotics that is so heart warming and inspiring. Check out their new website www.macroschool.co.uk and see for yourself :O)

Whilst I was away I didn’t note down what I ate but I can tell you that it was the most delicious food :O)

Hello!

Breakfast

Porridge made with polenta & millet & oats this waso soothing!

Lunch

Parsnip patties, sweet & sour seitan, broccoli & polenta & millet

Clearspring fruit puree (strawberry & apple & plum & apple)

Dinner

Mixed grain, a black bean dish (mushrooms, tofu, blackbeans), red cabbage & cauliflower & red cabbage, white cabbage and carrot slaw

Carob cake with coconut flavoured soya cream…ahh what a treat! :O)

I am away until Sunday/Monday for more macrobiotic studies (yeahhh!!) but will take photos etc and will update you upon my return.

Keep well, eat well & be happy

Love & light

Sharlene

Macro Greetings to you!

Have I mentioned that cooking is getting so much easier nowadays? It’s all starting to feel so natural. Now I just can’t wait forthe day when I have a bigger & better kitchen (I have a teeny weeny kitchen at the moment).

Breakfast

Oat porridge with sunflower seeds. Mmm this was delicious this morning. I love just plain and simple oats.

Lunch

Soup from yesterday

Sesame cookies

Dinner

Millet & polenta, parsnip patties, sweet & sour seitan, sauerkraut & purple sprouting brocolli

Grain coffee with barley malt

Macro love

Sharlene

Good evening!

Brunch

Seitan with mushrooms, onion & garlic

Brown rice

Steamed greens & parnsip mash

Dinner

Soup made with kombu, carrot, sprouts, pasta, brocolli & spring onion

Milk thistle, nettle & spearmint tea

Rye bread toast with fruit spread

Snacks/other

Sesame cookies :O)

Apple juice

Love & light

Sharlene

Hello!

Breakfast

Mashed parsnips, lentils, brown rice, spring greens

Brown rice balls with rice syrup and toasted coconut

Mu tea

Dinner

Miso soup with tofu and spring onion

Spaghetti with seitan & mixed veg sauce, pressed radishes

Baked apples stuffed with tahini, raisins & rice syrup

Grain coffee with soya milk

Snacks/other

Ale

Popcorn

A taste of soya cheese (this tasted a bit like blue cheese!)

I can now make seitan…yay! I was taught how to make it on the first macro course I went on but when I tried to make it myself a while back I failed miserably. Thankfully a fellow macrotarian was able to show me the seitan ropes and now I know how I’m very excited! I love seitan!

Sweet macro love

Sharlene

p.s. I’ll add some photos tomorrow :O)

Hey!

Eating less is very agreeable! ;o) Try it, I dare you!

Breakfast

Soya beans with spring greens

Bancha tea

Lunch

Tempeh & mushroom stew

Brown rice balls, blanched brocolli with tahini and capers, soya beans, spring greens

Kuzu drink

Dinner

Brown rice balls, tempura (mushroom and cauliflower), mashed parsnips and swede, red lentil dahl, daikon

Home made strawberry ice cream (I did a little experiment and it worked and I’m so pleased I can make this!)

Some peanut butter and rice syrup (another little experiment!!!)

Grain coffee with syrup of rice

Love & light

Sharlene

Greetings!

Today I have done my best at eating smaller portions. I feel so good for doing so and pleased with myself that I have succeeded in not over-eating. :O)

Breakfast

Soup from yesterday (soya bean, squash etc)

Lunch

Steamed spring greens, pressed radish, tempeh, mushroom and leek stew, brown rice & arame and onions

Nettle, spearmint and milk thistle tea

Dinner

Soy beans with carrot, onion and ginger and parsley

Brown rice balls wrapped in nori with some umeboshi plum in the middle

Blanced purple sprouting brocolli and normal brocolli with tahini and capers

Steamed spring greens with ume su

Home made cauliflower pickles with furikake

1  oat and raisin cookie

Bancha tea

I gave myself a ginger compress last night which was lovely. Maybe you are wondering what a ginger compress is? It is a macrobiotic remedy that is used to dissolve stagnation in the body and it is made from ginger juice. Last night I put it over my kidneys. I believe they liked it very much!! 

I am learning about macrobiotic remedies during my studies and it’s truly fascinating. It seems that nature has an abundant  selection of natural rememdies. Isn’t it such a shame that modern life has meant that we are now abusing this instead of  making the most of it. So many things have been designed and developed to enhance our life on this planet (and of course there are so many things out there that do) but we seem to have taken it ten steps too far and now, instead of helping, we’ve created things that have become such a hindrance to ourselves and to our planet. It’s all out of kilter with nature.  I am sure in some way soon nature (or something!) will give us a big wake up call and we’ll have no option but to obey the laws of nature or the laws of the universe (which is essentially what macrobiotics is).

I thank my lucky stars that I came across macrobiotics and I feel grateful to all those who have contributed or who contribute in one way or another to this wonderful, amazing and insightful subject.

With love, light & gratitude

Sharlene