Macrobiotics and Me

G’day!

OK before I go on I must…confess my yins…he he:

Carrot juice, 1 spelt cookie & 1 plum…and now my reasons…carrot juice - I was out with friends, cookie – I could hear this noise coming from a box in my kitchen and I soon realised it was the last remaining cookie I made a few days back and it wouldn’t stop screaming at me until I ate it & the plum – it was an offering from someone at dancing this evening and it would have been rude not to.

There, I’ve said it! :O) he he!!

I have felt noticably more grounded today after the yangness of the past few days. I think I’ll continue playing around with this as it’s interesting and I can feel that it’s beneficial.

Breakfast

Pie from yesterday (yeah, pie for breakfast!!!!!!!!!)

Roasted squash

Lunch

A vegetable wrap made with garlic, carrots, courgettes and mushrooms

Dinner

Quinoa salad

Peace & love

Sharlene

Hey!

Is it really almost the end of August?!!…time flies when you’re having fun eh?!

Today’s macro fun has involved a beautiful long cooked breakfast of sweet rice and brown rice  with tekka following a lovely gently morning jog.

Lunch

I felt a little creative today so invented a pie. It was a kidney bean pie made with onions, squash and kidneys beans & was really yummy.

Sauerkraut & corn on the cob

Snacks/other

Popcorn

Cucumber

I felt thirsty today and after eating some cucumber to try to see if that would help I soon realised that my thirst wasn’t going to go away until I had a drink. So, I had a very small amount of strong twig tea :O) which was so pleasurable to drink!

I haven’t had any dinner this evening as I’ve had a pretty inactive day (other than a run this morning) and I ate too much pie and had popcorn late in the afternoon which means that come dinner time I wasn’t feeling hungry. I am sure my body will appreciate the rest from food and I’m also sure that it means breakfast tomorrow will be super nice :O) oh yeah!

OK, time for kidney replenishment a.k.a getting to bed at a reasonable time!

Macro blessings

Sharlene

Blessings!

Breakfast

Miso soup from last night

Snack

Some peanut butter (oops…I couldn’t help myself!)

Lunch

Green lentils, barley, brown rice & aduki beans, green beans with a mustard dressing, fried red cabbage with roasted walnuts & oven roasted squash

Dinner

Quinoa salad made with spring onion, sweetcorn, radishes, parsley & carrot with an ume & shoyu dressing

What a relief it was to eat a yin style dinner this evening. Especially since all I could think about this afternoon was drinking twig tea even though I wasn’t thirsty. I reckon it was some kind of mind trick! Do you ever get that? You know when you decide not to have or do someting and then suddenly you find your mind is just focused on it. But I knew that it was just a passing phase and if I just watched it go by it would. And here I am about to end day 2 without a drink or any sweet style yin. Yay!

Can you imagine how many people would think it was completely crazy and impossible to go a few days without a single drink…ha ha!!

The only other thing I noticed today was that I felt myself getting a little tight after lunch so I had an ume pill which seemed to help. Let see how tomorrow goes.

Om namah shivaya

Sharlene

Hey!

Today, with the help and support of a wonderful fellow macrotarian, I have started an experiment which goes something like this:

I am not going to have any drinks or teas or any of the more yin things like fruits or grain sweeteners etc  over the next five days. So, the macro wagon is going up a gear and I’m going full steam ahead. Of course, one must be careful with things like this because if I go too yang then I’ll just ping right back the other way to too yin before I know it. However, I am certain with my knowledge of yin and yang in foods, tastes, cooking styles etc, that I can achieve a balance that will allow me to cut out the really yin things and maintain a more balanced yin. This is going to be interesting!

Breakfast

I had the most delicious breakfast this morning made of brown rice, barley and aduki beans and nothing else – this was sooo soooo sooo yummy. I know it sounds a bit dull but it was cooked for a long time in the pressure cooker and when it was done it was almost sweet and felt so nourishing and satisfying.

This was accompanied by some oven roasted squash (it seems I cannot get enough yang at the moment!).

Lunch

Barley, brown rice and aduki beans with aduki bean stew and mixed bean sprouts

Dinner

A really yummy miso soup made with fried onions, wakame, carrot, roasted squash (yeah, I put roasted squash in there which was so delicious), green lentils & parsley

Corn on the cob

Rye bread

Snacks/other

Rice cakes

Possibly some popcorn…

Wow -  it’s all been so yang today but it’s felt really good. :O)

Macro love

Sharlene

Bonjourno!

Today, someone said to me that they weren’t sure about macrobiotics and they thought it was some kind of cult…he he!!!

Breakfast

Miso soup made with wakame, carrot, celery & tempeh

Roasted squash

Lunch

Aduki bean stew made with leeks, carrot & sweet potato with brown rice

Snacks

Roasted brazil nuts

1 spelt cookie

A late afternoon amazake and kuzu drink with lemon juice

Dinner

Millet and cauliflower, broccoli, red cabbage and sesame seeds and pinto beans

2 lovely little cocoa raspberry truffles

Redbush tea and oat cream

Peace & magic

Sharlene

Good greetings!

Food today has been so incredible. I think partly because I didn’t eat very much yesterday but also because it was just so delicious and just cooked perfectly according to my condition…ahhh, I love it and I love macrobiotics!

Breakfast

Brown rice (cooked yesterday for a loooong time and then again this morning for half an hour or so) – this was just absolutely beautiful (he he, I can’t believe I’m calling brown rice beautiful, but it is true!). It was so soft and just felt so nourishing and delicious. I mixed in a little bit of miso to make it a little more yang which I feel I really need at the moment.

Then I had some roasted squash which was soooooo delicious!

Lunch

Miso soup made with wakame, carrot, celery & tempeh

Some seitan with mushrooms and pepper

Later in the afternoon I had a really delicious dessert made with the long cooked brown rice and millet amazake

Redbush tea with a splash of oat milk

Dinner

Some seitan with mushrooms, sweetcorn and peppers (if you ever want to set yourself a macro challenge try travelling on the underground and eating sweetcorn with chopsticks!!!!! (ha ha!!!))

I can almost hear my stomach singing to me telling me how much it enjoyed the porridge and dessert today :O) ahhh! As we are coming into the Earth transformation it’s time to start thinking about eating and living in a way that is going to heal the stomach and spleen and cooking grains longer and making lovely creamy dishes is very helpful.

I can’t wait to eat lovely food tomorrow now! I’ve been eating slightly less than normal the last few days and it feels so amazing, you should try it! :O)

Rays of love & light to you all

Sharlene

Good Evening,

Today has been very simple and I shall keep this post simple too…

Breakfast

Bancha tea with umeboshi plum

Lunch

Rice cakes

Amazake

Dinner

Redbush tea with rice milk

I decided to fast today as I felt like my body needed that :O). It’s so nice to semi-fast every now and again.

Love & light

Sharlene

p.s. I seem to be having trouble uploading photos at the moment but will try to get it sorted asap

Hows it!

As this day comes to an end, I feel so much gratitude in my heart for macrobiotics and the way in which it is is guiding me to be more in touch with the deepest depths of my being. It’s as though it allows you to tune into the real you, your real feelings, your real desires, your real needs and when you can see that clearly, it is the most fulfilling and satisfying feeling ever!

Breakfast

Miso soup made with onion, carrot, watercress and furikake

Oat porridge with sesame seeds and date syrup

Lunch

Seitan with pepper and mushrooms, brown rice, pressed cucumber, roasted parsnips & mixed salad with a mustard dressing

Bancha tea

Spelt cookies

Snack/other

Lemon pudding

Red bush tea with oat milk

Too much yin today…oops!

Love, light & magic

Sharlene

p.s. I have taken some photos from today but I can’t upload them at the moment so I will do it tomorrow :O)

Greetings to you!

I’ve spent the last couple of days at home and although I’ve been busy, it’s been wonderful just being at home and getting more settled. Ahh, time at home is so important and often feels like a health turbo boost :O)

Breakfast

Broadbean miso soup from yesterday

Lunch

Tempeh sandwiches on sour dough bread with sauerkraut, gherkins, mustard, & sugar free ketchup

Apple juice

Dinner

Sweetcorn

Toast and date syrup

Lemon pudding

Redbush tea and oat milk

Yogi redbush tea

I made some seitan this evening and cannot wait to eat this tomorrow! I’ll take some photos and post them tomorrow for you to see :O)

Macro blessings

Sharlene

Evening!

Today has been almost grain free (other than amazake) because the thought of eating grains is just not doing it for me at the moment! I’m not sure what all this fuss is that has been going on lately but I’m just going to go with the flow. I guess it is not about things by the book or because we feel we ought to but rather it’s about listening to your body and trying to decipher the messages… 

Breakfast

Miso soup made with wakame, onion, leeks and carrot

Roasted squash (yeah..for breakfast…he he!! a.k.a a yang fix!)

Late lunch/dinner

Soup made with miso, butter beans, leeks, sweet potato, carrot, parsnip and sweetcorn

Amazake drink with lemon and kuzu

I am just about to have another amazake drink with lemon and a bit of maple syurp :O) (I don’t have rice syrup at home at the moment otherwise I would have used that)

I can’t wait to get to a health food shop tomorrow to replenish my macro supplies!

Love & light

Sharlene