Macrobiotics and Me

Hello :O)

Ahh, it’s been another wonderful day of really amazing food, mostly cooked by the most amazing macro man!

Breakfast

I skipped breakfast today as I didn’t feel hungry and it was so nice at lunch time to feel proper hunger

Lunch

Miso soup made with pumpkin, onion, carrot, wakame & whole wheat bread

Corn bread, cabbage parcels (mmm – this is a traditional Serbian dish usually made with mincemeat), pressed radish and daikon & buckwheat

Dinner

Miso soup (from lunch)

Buckwheat, cous cous & pumpkin, cabbage parcel, homemade horseradish (mmm!)

Mochi waffles with rice malt syrup

Grain coffee

1 umeboshi plum

It seems I might have to save adding photos until I return to London.

Macro love

Sharlene

Day 28

Breakfast

Umeboshi plum

Lunch

Roasted rice, salmon

Dinner

Roasted rice & onion butter

Nettle tea & grain coffee

Day 29

Ahhh today is an amazing day as I am reunited with my amazing maco man :O)

Breakfast

I didn’t have breakfast this morning as I was travelling

Lunch

Soup made with roasted barley, aduki, kombu, onions, celeriac, nettle leaves

Brown rice, squash, corn bread, pickled cabbage

Dessert made from brown rice, apples, walnuts, date syrup & barley malt

Chamomile tea

Dinner

Soup from earlier

Cabbage stuffed with brown rice & sauerkraut with hprseradish & pressed daikon

Wholewheat bread

Home made red wine

Dessert made with puffed spelt, peanut butter & barley malt

Mmmm!!! I feel like I’ve eaten like a queen today!!!!

Ahhh macrobiotics is amazing, but it’s even more so when you have someone amazing to share it with

I hope to post photos tomorrow.

Love & light

Sharlene

Hello :O)

Breakfast

Nothing

Lunch

1 umeboshi plum (mmm!!)

Dinner

Roasted brown rice

& not a single drop to drink :O)

Ahh this life is very interesting!  

Love & light

Sharlene

G’day!

Breakfast

No thing!

Lunch

Miso soup with wakame, onion & squash

Buckwheat & onions, red lentils, swede & onions & kale

Chocolate cake

Bancha tea

Dinner

Tempura prawns, sweet rice & lentil, swede & onions

Beer, nuts & pretzels

It is so strange coming home to my family and seeing their eating & lifestyle habits (which are now so different to mine…phew!). Sometimes I find myself being very analytical about it all and it’s really difficult to try to get out of that mindset and just allow things to be and accept that things are just the way they are. For example, my Mum’s diet today has consisted of a few jelly babies and some chocolate, numerous cups of tea and some soft drinks & about a million cigarettes….! Unfortunately (but justifiably) she is not too well, and it seems so clear to me that the reasons why is that she makes very poor choices when it comes to her diet and lifestyle and is not aware of how to take care of herself. However, I guess I just have to let it be and pray that one day she’ll wake up and take responsibility. It’s sad, it’s ironic but it’s just the way it is! It makes me feel so lucky that I have found this amazing path.

Love & light

Sharlene

Ho ho ho!!!

Christmas day…yayyy!

Day 24

Breakfast

No breakfast

Lunch

Carrot & lentil miso soup with kombu

Sweet rice porridge with a little bit of shoyu

Dinner

Buckwheat, kale with ume su, stewed cabbage – this dinner was sooooo amazing!! Mmmm.

I had far too much alcohol last night…it is normally tradition that I go out with my siblings on Christmas eve and last night I went out with my sister & I drank too much & found myself getting very carried away in the moment! I drank whiskey, beer & tequila.

When I got home this morning (!) I engaged in some ‘lower level’ eating and ate a doughnut & some crisps…OH MY I ATE SUGAR!!!… although it wasn’t for the taste, I just needed to eat food to absorb some of the alcohol I think!  ahh that is the first time I have eaten sugar this year. Crazy! I don’t want to feel guilty about that or become obsessive about it (although my family have had fun teasing me about this today!!! he he!!) as I think it is easy to do that. All these things can be lessons for us and can teach us many things so I will learn from my experience.  

Day 25

Breakfast

A doughnut & crisps it seems…oops!! 

Umeboshi plum

Lunch

Carrot & lentil miso soup

Salmon, buckwheat, brussel sprouts, carrots, 1 roast potato

Bancha tea

Dinner

Buckwheat & onions, salmon, squash tempura

A baby slice of sugar & dairy free chocolate cake

Now I am looking forward to giving my kidneys some good rest and getting to bed :O)

Salty dreams!! he he!

Love & light

Sharlene

Hello

I’m a little late in updating on here as since yesterday I really haven’t had a chance so here I am, better late than never!

Day 22

Breakfast

Oat milk with a splash of shoyu

Lunch

A miso stew type thing! with miso, chickpeas, carrots & onions

Dinner

I ate out tonight at a lovely Ethiopian restaurant. It was really delicious but far too yin and I paid the price for that…almost immediately after eating I had a sore throat (I’ve not felt so great for over a week now & not being 100% well again and then having such strong yin, I think my body was a little overwhelmed and not so grateful!). I had a sore throat this morning too.

Sour dough bread, okra & tomatoe, pumpkin & tomato, tofu with vegetables, fried potatoes – it was really tomatoey and very spicy. 

Fresh mint tea & a little water

Day 23

Breakfast

No thing!

Lunch

Roasted sweet rice

Dinner

Roasted sweet rice

Bancha tea

 I’m feeling better now…yeahh! 

Love & light

Sharlene

Hello :O)

I’ve had such a beautiful day & I’d just like to give thanks for that…thank you dear universe! Ahhhh!

Breakfast

Millet porridge with kuzu and shoyu

Lunch

Brown rice with chickpea and carrot stew & brussel sprouts & a few roasted almonds & cashews

Oat bar

Dinner

Mixed grain & a mixture of different vegetables (cauliflower, carrot, courgette, pepper, lettuce….I can’t remember what else but there was definitely others!). I ate out tonight at the lovely little cafe that I haven’t been too for soooo long.

1/2 chocolate (sugar & dairy free of course!) truffle

Some water! I can’t remember the last time I drank water. It was quite nice drinking it again after so long!

Love, love & more love

Sharlene

Hola!

Breakfast

I decided to give breakfast a miss today to give my liver a mini holiday!

Lunch

The yummiest buckwheat (I think this is my new favourite grain!) with stewed carrot, onion, squash & watercress

Aduki bean dessert from yesterday

1/2 cup of nettle tea

Dinner

Brown rice with gomasio, millet, stewed peas & onion, roasted squash & chickpea stew with carrot

1/2 cup of grain coffee

Holidays are coming…yayyy!! I can’t wait!

Love & light

Sharlene

Hey!

Day 19 of December – WOW! That means that the year is almost over. I love this time of year because it’s a great opportunity to take some time to reflect on the past year and to also take time to be clear and sure of one’s hopes and dreams for next year. 2010 is going to be an amazing year, I can feel it in my bones!!!

Last new year I gave up sugar and I’ve been thinking what my new year’s resolution will be for 2010.  I decided today that I will be waving goodbye to eating more than what I need to :O) There have been soooo many times this year when I’ve over eaten and it’s an old ghost that keeps coming back to haunt me again and again. I’m fed up with myself for repeating this stupid habit time and time again, and it’s time for it to go! I can see that it is very clearly linked to my emotions, and it’s a way of providing a feeling of short-lived comfort which inevitably results in feeling awful (on all levels) afterwards (actually, it is not so disimilar to sugar and why I used to eat sugar!). I’m ready to change this once and for all as I know how detrimental it is. It seems I gave up sugar with no problem at all, so there is no reason why I cannot now give up this. And I am sure, in so doing, that it will allow my body to work better than ever before :O) yayyy!

Breakfast

Miso soup made with arame, brocolli & cauliflower

Brown rice with chestnuts and barley malt

Lunch

Mackerel

Dinner

Millet with gomasio, stewed onion, carrot, squash & water cress

A dessert made with aduki beans, chestnuts, apples, dried coconut & date syrup

Snacks

Popcorn

I’m starting to feel excited about Christmas now…yayyy!

Love & light

Sharlene

Hello

There are times when I find myself completely overwhelmed with questions about macrobiotics, about my body, about healing, about health and today I found myself very much there. It’s like being in some kind of dense forrest where the trees are not trees but question marks…! I hope I will some day be able to cut down those question marks and replace them with beautiful trees of knowing & clarity!

Breakfast

Sweet rice cream with chestnuts & barley malt

Lunch

Brown rice, chestnuts, mackarel, brussel sprouts, stewed squash and onion

Dinner

Sweet rice cream, chestnuts, stewed squash & onion & steamed brocolli

A liquidless day!

God bless!

Sharlene