Macrobiotics and Me

Evening!

Breakfast

Whole oat and spelt porridge with shoyu

Lunch

Millet & corn with gomasio & roasted pumpkin seeds, fried celeriac with lemon & pressed leeks

Oat cookies & oat bars (I ate far too many of these. I have a problem with overeating!) 

Dinner

Pizza made with a buckwheat and spelt base, beetroot and carrot for the red sauce and yellow and red pepper, black olives and anchovies on top with some ale – mmm!

Loads of macro love

Sharlene

Hola!

Another kind of simple day of eating & no drinks again today:

Breakfast

Brown rice porridge with shoyu

Lunch

Brown rice porridge with no shoyu!

Dinner

Corn chips

Rice cakes with sugar free jam

Love & light

Sharlene

Howdy!

I’ve had a really nice day today once I managed to sort myself out after waking up and feeling kind of misplaced! (an after effect of healing/re-birthing!)

Breakfast

No breakfast for moi as I wasn’t hungry

Lunch

Brown rice with gomasio

Dinner

Brown rice cream with miso

A day of eating simply which I really feel the need for at the moment.

No drinks again today.

Love & light

Sharlene

Good Evening!

Day 26

Breakfast

Brown rice porridge

Lunch

Brown rice porridge

Brown rice crispy bars with nuts

Dinner

Brown rice porridge

Fresh carrot juice

Day 27

Breakfast

Brown rice, buckwheat & barley porridge

Roasted almonds

Lunch

Aduki bean soup with arame, dried daikon & onion

Wild rice salad (with parsley, carrot, parsnips, sesame seeds, red onion)

Dinner

Brown rice porridge & corn chips

Grain coffee

Ahh yesterday was another one of those days that will really stand out for me when I look back at 2010. I had my first re-birthing session. It seems so many things were revealed that have helped me to understand this life and myself a little more.

The first remarkable thing was on there way there. I was running a little late and as I walked up a hill and came to cross a road a woman in a car allowed me to cross in front of her car and ushered me across the road. I smiled at her and then the next thing, she opens her window and says “I’m going to so and so, do you want a lift”. I didn’t have time to think about it much, other than to say ‘YES PLEASE’ as I hopped into her car. It was one of those moments when you just know God is with you and that you are connected to some divine presence. I am sure all the events before and after my session have a greater meaning to them too.

So, then I rock up at the therapist’s house to find that the front door is, wait for this, the EXACT same colour as the door that I went through on my past life regression session last week. I don’t mean the past life therapist’s door, I mean that door that I visualised in my mind during my regression…I also had a strong sense that I’d already met the therapist before although we concluded that we hadn’t!…  

My session was really good and afterwards, on my way home, I decided that I’d walk in a new direction. Well, I found myself in the most beautiful part of London I have ever seen. I guess I was still in some kind of post therapy state but it was felt like I’d found some kind of heaven in London! I really haven’t ever seen such a lovely part of London before! I was walking through the streets lined with these beautiful houses and gardens and it was like something out of a dream. Just as I was walking past admiring my surroundings, I heard some lovely piano music. Seconds later, as my ears recognised the song I felt this wave of love and gratitude sweep over me as I realised the song was Happy Birthday! Ahhh, how magical!

And it doesn’t end there! The final most extraordinary event of the day was during my evening meditation. Now this is going to sound probably a little crazy… First I have to confess that we have a little pet in our flat and that little pet is a mouse (called Maki!!). Actually, to me it is more than a mouse, it is some kind of spiritual friend that I can’t really explain!! I think most people would freak out  and think that it’s disgusting and unhygenic but he’s a cool little thing and isn’t any bother to us. In fact, I quite enjoy and look forward to seeing him every now and again!

Anyway,  last night, during my evening candle lit meditation, I heard a noise and I couldn’t resist opening my eyes. I am so glad I did as I found, sitting directly in front of me, a couple of feet away, my little friend who had come to share the meditation with me. Ahhhh!! I’ve never had any desire to hug a mouse before but last night I certainly did!! It was one of those really serene moments. Maybe the mouse is a friend of Mr Jingles?!!! (if you’ve seen The Green Mile (one of my fav films!), you’ll know what I’m talking about!! he he)

So, yesterday’s extraordinary day leaves me feeling much gratitude to be on this truly incredible journey.

Lots of rodent love

Sharlene & Maki!

Hey!

I wasn’t hungry when I woke up this morning so I just had a very small cup of grain coffee.  

Lunch

Buckwheat with tahini & shoyu & after a visit to the seaside today I found myself sharing some chip shop chips with my friend. I felt a little sick after them though! (it’s seems being macro increases one’s sensitivity to foods!)

Dinner

Pizza topped with onion, pepper & courgette

Grain coffee

Love & light for your soul

Sharlene

Good Evening!

Yesterday’s food:

Breakfast

Nothing

Lunch

Sprouted wheat bread with olives

Whole wheat cake with raspberry topping

Dinner

Avacado & salad wrap

Fruit smoothie

Day 24

Breakfast

Nothing

Lunch

Sweet rice & brown rice porridge with shoyu

Dinner

Ahhh I cooked a macro feast for my parents and my best friend & niece this evening and I’m so happy to say that it was a success. Yayyy! This is the first time I felt that my parents genuinely wanted to share food with me (without me having to try to convince them) and it was soo nice. But not only that but they ACTUALLY enjoyed it!! WOW! My Dad said he was surprised at how much he liked it and my Mum said she loved it. I think I call that a RESULT!! yay!

So, the feast:

Corn & onion soup - a lovely sweet & light summery soup  

Make onion butter (saute onions in oil for about an hour to make them really soft & sweet), add water (however much you need to make soup) and then add corn. Cook for 30-60 minutes more (although you can cook for less if you like) and flavour with white miso to taste

Pizza – mmm this was soooo nice!

I made the dough with some freshly milled buckwheat and barley. So, once you have the flour add some salt and water and knead into a dough. Roll out and put into an oiled baking tray.

For the topping: boil beetroot & carrots with garlic – once this is soft blend and season with shoyu or white miso. Spread this on the pizza base.

Top with diced pepper (or whatever else you like!) & bake for about 45 minutes

Courgette & tofu bake - everyone thought this was made with egg & it has a kind of cheesyness about it too!

Slice courgettes and place in oven dish. Dice and onion and sprinkle this on top of the courgettes. Then mix 1 block of tofu with about a tablespoon of shoyu and 2 tablespoons of tahini. Spread this on top of the courgettes and onions. Then mix 1 tablespoon of dark miso with 3 tablespoons of water and sprinkle this over the top of the tofu. Bake in the oven for about 45 minutes.

Tempura fish – I felt like I needed to have something more yang as my Dad usually eats some real yang things so I wanted to make sure there was something that I knew he’d enjoy!

White fish fillets, tempura batter mix (mix wholemeal flour with a bit of salt & water – you have to play around with this to get the consistency right. You can always deep fry one bit first to see if the batter is the right consistency)

Cut the fillets into bite size pieces and deep fry. Then spray with shoyu before serving

Corn on the cob

Salad – something light

Lettuce, cucumber, beetroot, a little salt and a drizzle of olive oil

Dessert – brown rice cream with a melon topping – ahh I love this dessert. It’ s my new favourite summer macro dessert!

Make the brown rice cream (you can do this either by cooking brown & sweet rice together in more water than normal and putting it through a sieve or you can mill the grain and then add water), once you have the cream, add some salt, desicated coconut and raisins and cook for 20 minutes.

Make the topping by cooking fresh melon with a pinch of salt in a tiny bit of water. Once it softens, mix in some tahini. Blend if necessary. It should be nice and smooth.

Pour the cream into a dish and then top with the melon

Some photos:

Ahh, it’s sooooo nice to cook and share beautiful macro food with others

Lots of macro love

Sharlene

Ciao!

Breakfast

Oat, barley & polenta porridge

Lunch

Oat, barley & polenta porridge & corn chips

Cake from Monday

Dinner

Same as lunch but without the cake!

Toast with white miso & fruit jam!

Sweet macro dreams

Sharlene

Hey!

Yesterday was a pretty emotionally and spiritually intense day. I spent the morning feeling some strong & deep emotions and in the evening  I having a past life regression session which was really incredible. This healing stuff is so powerful and I just feel so blessed to be part of it all.  

So many people are oblivious to their healing needs and requirements. But I realise that if we cannot see that, then we cannot evolve. Ahh let us all evolve, let the eyes of all people open so we can heal & come together to share the beauty and wonder of this incredible life we have been given.

Day 20

Breakfast

Rice cream with shoyu

Grain coffee

Lunch

Rye bread & rice cream with shoyu

Dinner

The same as lunch

Day 22

Breakfast

Brown rice porridge with chestnuts & a some fish tempura! I think this is the first time I’ve ever had fish for breakfast but after yesterday’s shenanigans I really felt a strong desire for this (and it was sooo good – I realise that when something tastes sooo good and satisfying (and I’m not talking from a level of satisfying your taste buds only) it is most probably because your body needs it and yesterday after my past life session, I felt incredibly in touch with what it was I really needed. 

Lunch

Whole wheat noodles & millet stir fry with carrot, onion & leek, fish tempura, roasted parsnips & cucumber salad

Rice milk with hazelnuts

Dinner

Corn

A very beautiful fruit dessert (made with apple, raspberries & nectarines)

Laku noc!

With love & insight

Sharlene

Hi!

Breakfast

Nothing

Lunch

Black bean soup, millet & cauliflower, seitan, cabbage & onion & radish & carrot salad – all from yesterday

Cake

Dinner

Corn, cake & ale! (I had a birthday celebration on my hands!! ;o)

Check out this cake I made:

Made with freshly milled whole wheat, apple juice, raisins, walnuts, carrot, squash with a raspberry, orange and kuzu topping. Mmm, it was/is really amazing!

Tomorrow I have a past life regression session - woo hoo!

Love & light

Sharlene

Hello

Yesterday’s menu:

Breakfast

Nothing!

Lunch

Corn patties, mochi with miso & tahini & a little bit of leftover brown rice

Oat cookie (made from oat flakes & barley malt)

Dinner

Oat porridge

Today’s menu

Breakfast

Nothing

Lunch

Black bean, onion & wakame soup

Millet & cauliflower, tempura seitan, pressed radish & carrot salad & nituke cabbage & onion

Dinner

Wheat porridge

Sharlene

Lunch!

Black bean soup