Macrobiotics and Me

G’day!

What a fine day it has been. It’s getting warmer and I’m really feeling the urge to rise earlier and to eat lighter. I like the lightness!

I woke up very early this morning and listened to the birds singing their beautiful songs. It was so amazing and absolutely magical to have that as my background music as I meditated! They do say that the best things in life are free and I must second that! :O)

Breakfast

Soup from last night (squash, carrot, kombu, soya bean, peas) with spring greens

Lunch

Soup from last night with spring greens, pressed radish and millet and peas

Millet (and…ahem….peas…) with barley malt and oat cream. I decided to turn some leftover millet I had into a pudding, despite the peas!! (who said you can’t have peas for pudding!! he he!)

Dinner

Brown rice with furikake, spring greens, steamed cauliflower, tempeh with mushroom and leeks, arame & onion and pressed radish

Oat and raisin cookies with mu tea

DELICIOUS!

Thank the good old universe for such wonderful food and such a beautiful day!

Lightness & love

Sharlene

Good evening!

Three (meals) a day days are back!  It’s been strange the last few days where I’ve found myself having only two meals (although you could probably say that all the snacks I’ve had have been meals of sorts!). I think it’s time to eat more simply again. I love the way eating more simply is followed by a desire to eat a richer more varied diet which is then followed by a desire to eat more simply and so on. It’s all just yin and yang!

Breafast

Soup from yesterday with millet and peas

Lunch

Corn pasta, carrots & spring onions, millet and peas, sauerkraut & spring greens with ume su

Rye bread with peanut butter and jam

Grain coffee

Dinner

Tonight was a potluck evening /macro gathering :O) :O) (yay!) and we had:

Soup (made with pumpkin, peas, carrot, soya beans kombu, spring onion)

Green beans with shitake, soya beans, brown rice, roasted pumpkin seeds, tahini dressing, hijiki and carrot salad with a chive and tofu dressing, a salad with various salad leavs and orange, steamed greens, pressed radishes, sauerkraut rolls

Oat cookies & bancha tea

Once again I feel blessed to have been able to share food with others who appreciate nourishing food and to be able to share ideas about macrobiotics.

Adios!

Sharlene

Ello ello!!

I wonder just how many people have indulged or over indulged perhaps this Easter? Well, if you have don’t worry,that is in the past and what is important is the here and now so get back on the wagon and let’s go for a ride…;o)

Breakfast

I didn’t have breakfast this morning as I wasn’t hungry.

Lunch

Soup made with squash, carrot, black beans,  wakame, some leftover brocolli and cucumber salad (that maybe sounds a little strange but it was soooo delicious)

Millet and peas

women’s energy tea

Dinner

Soup (same as I had for lunch) with millet and peas

Grain coffee

Snacks/other

Kettle chips, sweet rice syrup popcorn

Cous cous cake

Ale &  guinness

I made some pickles this weekend. Did I tell you about my last batch of pickles? They turned out so well and I was so pleased that they actually tasted like pickles!! I have made lots more (onion, garlic and shoyu, daikon, carrot & clove, carrot, parsley and ume su and onion and thyme) so I can’t wait to taste them in a couple of weeks. I have some other pickles (just cauliflower and onion) that should be ready for today so I’m looking forward to trying them.

I am hosting a potluck dinner at mine tonight…yay! Exciting :O)

Love, light & good vibrations

Sharlene

Howdy!

I seem to have been on a some kind of muffin mission the last couple of days and this morning I made some spelt muffins with raisins and sunflower seeds which were (note the word ‘were’) delicious!!

Breafkast

Miso soup made with onion, corn pasta, wakame, sprouted beans, aduki beans and parsley

Muffins

Dinner

Millet and peas, tempura squash, pressed leek, purple sprouting brocolli with a tahini and shoyu dressing

Black beans with ginger, spring onion and parsley, cucumber and orange salad, daikon

Breathe yogi tea

Snacks/other

Ale

Kettle chips

Love & light

Sharlene

Hello!

Breakfast

I thought I’d have a bit of a different breakfast today so I had some apple muffins followed by some leftover cooking juice from black beans!

Lunch

A selection of various vegetable, grain and protein dishes (it was a potluck lunch where everyone brought various dishes of their choice)

Some dips & corn chips

A beautiful strawberry tart with almond cream as well as rhubarb and cream :O)

Bancha tea

Snacks/other

Kettle chips, cashews, olives, an apple muffin

2 pints ale

I am looking forward to miso soup and porridge for breakfast tomorrow morning :O)

Love & light

Sharlene

Good evening!

I have made the most of every opportunity to eat cous cous cake today. It is so delicious I just can’t help myself!! :O)

Brunch

Aduki bean soup from last night with cous cous and brown rice

Cous cous cake

Bancha tea

Dinner

Steamed brocolli with shoyu and tahini dressing

Rocket

Aduki beans with tekka

Cous cous cake

Snacks/other

Cous cous cake

Cous cous cake

Cous cous cake

Couse cous cake…:O)

Salted popcorn

Grain coffee

Cous cous cake

Organic ale

Maybe tomorrow I will wake up and find that I am a cous cous cake!!!! (maybe the ale I just had has gone to my head!!)

Goodnight & sweet cous cous cake dreams!

Sharlene

G’day!

Cous cous cake complete. Oh yeah! :O) Guess who will be eating cous cous cake for the next week? :O)!!  (if it lasts that long that is!)

Has anyone noticed that their health foods shops have really increased the price of some things? I don’t knowif it’s just my local health food shop or if it’s a particular brand but I’m not impressed. For example, kuzu seems to have gone up by a whole fat pound. Crazy. I think I must start shopping around. I believe there is a macro shop that you can order from and they will deliver. I’ve checked out their prices and they seem fairly reasonable so I might give it a go. I also need to chat to someone I know who buys stuff in bulk and perhaps I could the same. I wish there was some kind of master macrobiotic directory that had a list of everyone, every shop, ever website that is macro…

Breakfast

Aduki truffles (yes really!!…I couldn’t help myself!)

Brown rice with baked beans – bit a strange combo but I thought I’d use up the beans and spice up my porridge at the same time!

Lunch

Cous cous with peas, bean burgers with mayo, daikon pickle, steamed spring greens, orange & wakame salad

Red bush tea with oat cream

Dinner

Soup made with leek, swede, aduki beans, brown rice, cous cous with peas, wakame & parsley

Cous cous cake with oat cream

Bancha tea

I feel as though I’ve really over induldged lately and that i must return to simply eating again…

Aduki love

Sharlene

Hello!

A few computer issues later (hence the late update) and I am pleased to be back online. Phewy!

After my liver issues on Tuesday I woke up on Wednesday (yesterday) feeling fine and dandy. It seems pretty amazing to be watching these various symptoms come and go. Our bodies are so incredible.

Breakfast

Hot water with freshly squeezed lemon juice

Plain and simple brown rice

Aduki truffles

Lunch

Steamed purple sprouting brocolli with ume su

I thought I would have just steamed veg for lunch but after having a tiny amount of breakfast, come lunch time I was so hungry and I felt like my blood sugar levels were going a little haywire. So I frantically foraged around my office and came across a tin of baked beans (sugar free of course) and just had to eat some of these aswell. It reminds me that I must replenish my food supplies at work for moments like this.

Dinner

Cous cous with peas

Bean burgers (made from the leftover aduki bean stew with just a little spelt flour, onions and carrots added) with egg free mayo and sugar free ketchup 

Steamed spring greens

Cucumber, wakame and orange salad with furikake

Snacks/other

Cardamon biscuits

Toasted pumpkin seeds with shoyu

Grain coffee

Apple juice

I feel like i haven’t been drinking much lately but I haven’t wanted to and every time I think about making some tea I just don’t want any.

Maybe I’ll make a cous cous cake tonight :O) yum!

Macro love

Sharlene

Good evening!

I think I might have some liver issues going on today and as a result I am not feeling too great. I have a slight sore throat and very mild cystitis. I think tomorrow will be good to fast or to eat very very lightly. I’ll see how I feel in the morning. I realise that I ate quite heavy foods at lunch today and as I had such a huge plate (I really need to sort out this portion control business!) I don’t think this helped.  I guess just being aware of these things is a useful start. Now I just have to work on putting to good use all that I know. It’s always easier said than done though and I think we have to go through things like this in order to learn.

Breakfast

Miso soup from yesterday

Oat porridge

Lunch

Brown rice (after eating basmati rice at the weekend it made me realise that I haven’t really explored other varieties of rice other than short grain brown rice so I think I am up for a bit of exploration. The basmati rice has such a light feel to it)

Aduki bean stew with carrot and cabbage

Sauerkraut and squash

Rocket

Snacks/other

Lovely aduki truffles

1 dairy free/sugar free chocolate truffle

A square of a village bakery oat type bar

Basil tea

Some toasted pumpkin seeds with a drizzle of honey (just a drizzle as I didn’t want to experience buzzing again!!)

Love & light

Sharlene

Greetings!

Breakfast

Miso soup made with kombu, spring onion, leeks, green beans, celery and lemon

Oat porridge with roasted almond

Lunch

Steamed carrots and brocolli with sauerkraut, hummous and furikake

Rye toast with strawberry spread

Grain coffee

Dinner

Mixed grain, sprouted lentils, carrot, courgette, aubergine and brocolli dish & red and white cabbage slaw

Carob mousse type cake (so yummy!!) with coconut cream

I am off now to have a hot towel rub before I climb into bed :O) zzzzzz!

Sweet rice syrup dreams

Sharlene