Macrobiotics and Me

Good greetings!

Ahh I’ve had a beautiful weekend full of lots of dancing, love & all things macro yay!

Day 27

Breakfast

Nothing

Lunch

The most beautiful fish soup (cooked for about 10 hours) made with mackerel (a couple of whole fish, tail, head, bones, everything!). That might sound a bit grim but after it has been cooked for so long it just all melts and is sooo lovely! My kidneys feel like the happiest they’ve ever been!

Brown rice

Dinner

Fish soup, millet, onion & pea balls, brown rice, seitan, carrot & onion croquettes, pressed carrot salad

Apple strudel with oat cream

Mochi with malt syrup & tahini

Brown rice & green tea tea

Grain coffee with oat cream  

Day 28

Breakfast

No thing

Lunch

Fish soup with brown rice

Apple strudel & oat cream

Snack

Parsnip, beatroot & carrot chips

Dinner

Fish soup with millet & mugwort mochi

Dessert made from corn chips, sultanas, oat cream & almonds

Grain coffee with soya milk

Love

Sharlene

Hello!

It’s pretty late now and I’ve just been devouring a pot of leftover grains and vegetables from dinner…post pub! he he!

Breakfast

No thing

Lunch

Brown rice with gomasio

Brown rice cakes

Dinner

Millet & buckwheat, aduki beans with cabbage & leeks, a little pie type thing with salad & umeboshi in the middle (this is difficult to explain!). I found dinner to be a little heavy tonight and really felt the need for a quick yin boost afterwards so I had some grain coffee with soya milk and malt syrup

2 pints of ale

Leftovers from dinner! 

Tomorrow is macro gathering and I’m really looking forward to that, yay!

Love & peace

Sharlene

Good evening!

I have just got home after a really exciting macro meeting (for macro association of Great Britain). Yayyy!!!

Breakfast

Brown rice porridge with shoyu

Lunch

Miso soup made with carrot, red lentils, wakame & millet

Buckwheat with gomasio, seitan stew with carrot, squash & onion & brocolli

Baked apple

Grain coffee

Dinner

The same as lunch (minus the apple and coffee) but followed by dried cranberries & macadamia nuts & some halva

Lots of macro lovin

Sharlene

Good evening,

A lovely day filled with lovely food:

Breakfast

A yummy soup made with spelt pasta, sprouts & miso

Lunch

Aduki, onion and squash broth type soup – mmmm I love squash in soup!

Sweet rice with gomasio, kale & mushroom, carrot & leeks

Dinner

Sweet rice with gomasio, kale & mushroom, carrot & leeks

Baked apple with walnuts, almonds and sultanas & a lovely grain coffee with soya milk

And then a couple of rice cakes (1 with an umeboshi plum, 1 with amazake and gomasio (!!) and one with tahini and peanut butter

Lots of macro love

Sharlene

Good evening!

I’ve had many thoughts today & this evening about macrobiotics. I am sure that as of yet I do not really properly understand macrobiotics and there is just sooooo much I don’t know. Neither can I truly apply it to my life just yet….but one day!!!  I am trying to and I will continue trying, learning more and more until I really REALLY understand. I look forward to that!!

I ordered some new macro books today and I’m really looking forward to receiving them and to deepening my knowledge and understanding. Yay!

Breakfast

A beautiful oat porridge with shoyu

Lunch

Swede, carrots, onions & tempeh soup

Brown rice with gomasio, seitan stew with leeks, white cabbage, carrots and parsnip & steamed brocolli with ume paste dressing

Dinner

Bean sprout miso soup with spelt pasta

Brown rice with gomasio, cooked salad leaves with black sesame seeds & seitan stew

Mmm beautiful food today. No liquids

Lots of macro love & laughter

Sharlene

Hi!

I keep forgetting to tell you that I passed my macro exams…yayyy! :O) I’m very happy about that. It seems my cooking exam went better than what I originally thought too, yipee!  

Today my aim was to fast for the whole day but I felt too hungry later in the day so I had to invest in an emergency supply of rice crackers!

I had only one small cup of grain coffee & a few rice crackers today. Now I am really looking forward to breakfast tomorrow and my body feels grateful for the rest. 

Love & light

Sharlene

Hello!

Today I had one of those moments where I realised that my practice of macrobiotics is not as conscious as what it can be. It seems it’s very easy to eat things willy nilly without much thought to it’s effects on the body, and whilst I try to eat consciously as much as I can, I feel like I could definitely do better with this. So, next week my aim is to eat as simply as possible and to learn to tune in more to the effects. I would also really like to reduce my portion sizes as well since I still feel like I am still struggling with overeating :O( (grrrr! this feels like the bane of my life at the moment, it feels like there are some emotional issues here that I know must deal with in order to heal over eating…)

Breakfast

No thing

Lunch

Soup made with leftover veg & cous cous from yesterday

Buckwheat & millet, kale, arame & tofu dish

Dinner

Soup made with carrot, millet, kombu & aduki beans 

Poletna, barley & tempeh stew with carrots, swede & onion

No liquid today

Macro love

Sharlene

Good evening!

Another short and sweet post from me:

Breakfast

Millet porridge with shoyu

Snack

Rye bread with raspberry spread & corn crackers with raspberry spread

Grain coffee

Lunch

Brown rice, wheat & onion crackers, stewed onions, carrot & squash & grated cabbage

Sage tea

Dinner

Cous cous, a little brown rice with onion, carrot & squash, grated cabbage & wheat crackers

Ale

Fudge…too much fudge!…and too much flour for one day…

Peace

Sharlene

Greetings!

Breakfast

No thing!

Lunch

Miso soup made from yellow split peas, wakame, carrot & parsnip

Oat pasta with mushrooms

Dinner

Buckwheat with onions and gomasio, carrot, onions & cabbage & mixed grain bread with tahini, miso & shoyu

Lemon pudding

Sage tea

Ale

Popcorn

Love & magic

Sharlene

Howdy!

Today I found myself pondering about the symbol of yin and yang and I had some wonderful mini realisations. You know, the circle represents one, it represents the whole and from that whole or from that one comes all life.

What other circles in life does life come from? How about the ovaries? and the testicles? the egg, the body of sperm? and what about whole grains? which seem to be little circles in themselves (ok, they are not all perfectly round but they are perfectly whole and kind of circular in a way). I can’t think of any other food that is more circular or complete than wholegrains (ok, you could say an egg, or a melon or something like that but they are not as whole and as nutritionally complete as grains). Wholegrains, whole foods – it’s the way forward!!

It is this wholeness that is essential for health, for life, for love, for evolution…for everything!

Breakfast

Miso soup made with leftover quinoa & vegetables, chickpeas & buckwheat from yesterday

Lunch

Miso soup 

Brown rice with gomasio, carrots, onion & tempeh, sauerkraut  

Brown rice bar with nuts & rice syrup

Grain coffee

Dinner

Bancha tea

Miso soup (made with celeriac, carrot, wakame) with noodles

Millet with sunflower and pumpkin seeds, almond powder & gomasio

Carrots, tempeh & onion

Pressed radish

Wheat crackers with leek

Lemon pudding

Another beautiful day!

One love!

Sharlene