Macrobiotics and Me

Hello

Breakfast

Miso soup from last night with barley pasta, leftover pizza & leftover sweet rice cake

Lunch

Quinoa salad & buckwheat noodles with a lovely sauce made from sauerkraut juice, miso & tahini

A dessert made with nuts, brown rice cream & melon (I’m experimenting for a cooking class!) & some sweet rice cake

A very small amount of grain coffee

Dinner

Aduki bean soup made with kombu, leeks, carrots, aduki beans & garlic

Cous cous, peas and onions, whole wheat flat bread, steamed brocolli & sauerkraut

1/2 a beer

Food glorious food!

Someone made a comment the other day that I must spend my life washing up. He he! It is true that cooking fresh food every day takes time and effort but if you can understand the connection between food and health then you don’t mind paying that price. It seems like a small price to pay for such a valuable investment…

Love & light

Sharlene

Greetings!

I’ve had an ultra busy weekend and glad to be sitting down to write!

Day 28

Breakfast

Oat porridge – mmm so creamy and satisfying (with shoyu)

Lunch

Carrot, beetroot, celery & cucumber juice

Sweet rice porridge with rice crackers

Brown rice bar with seeds

Dinner

Oat and courgette burger &  a corn salad

Ale – lots of ale! I was at a beer festival so I sampled quite a few ales from all over the UK. MMMmm I love ale!

Oat, miso & sauerkraut waffles, olives

Some fish & chips

Lager

More food = fish burger & chips & a onion bajhi sandwich

Oat waffle with rice syrup

Day 29

Breakfast

Absolutely nothing (other than a little bite out of an umeboshi plum) after yesterday’s feast! 

Dinner

 Miso soup made with barley pasta, arame, carrot & cauliflower

Pizza & quinoa salad

Sweet rice & whole wheat cake

Grain coffee with rice milk

Rice milk

Now I am sooo looking forward to bed after a very late night last night, not very much sleep and a hard day’s work! I love going to bed knowing that the sleep is well deserved!

Sweet dreams!

Love

Sharlene

Howdy,

Day 25

Breakfast

Rye & barley porridge & a little sweet rice cake (I couldn’t help myself!)

Lunch

Chickpea soup, brown rice with gomasio, pressed carrot & cabbage salad & stewed carrot & onion

Sweet rice cake & twig tea

Dinner

Noodles with an arame, squash, carrot, onion, pickled daikon & sunflower seed sauce & some sauerkraut

More sweet rice cake (mmm I cannot resist!)

Twig tea

Day 26

Brunch

Rye & barley porridge with shoyu & some more sweet rice cake

Dinner

Corn & onion soup

Fish tempura, sushi, sauerkraut & stewed carrot & cabbage

1 raw apple (ahh I haven’t had this for sooo long)

Corn chips & ale

Loads of macro love

Sharlene

Greetings!

Breakfast

Nothing today

Lunch

Soup from yesterday, brown rice & seitan, wheat crackers & vegetable stew from yesterday

Berry tart (with oat base)

Dinner

A little tipple of twig tea and a good old rest for my stomach!

Love & light

Sharlene

Good Evening!

Today’s food went like so:

Breakfast

Barley porridge & spelt bread (with onion, olive & sunflower seed)

Lunch

Lentil soup, spelt bread. Chickpea salad and cous cous

Dinner

Aduki, carrot, kombu, lotus & parsnip soup

Brown rice with gomasio, wheat crackers with onion, seitan stew with marrow carrot an onion & pressed cabbage and carrot salad

A beautiful little dessert made with oats, raisins, avacado & cocoa & a puffed rice dessert

Grain coffee

Love & light

Sharlene

Ciao!!

Breakfast

Pie from last night with broccoli and corn

Lunch

Buckwheat burgers, quinoa salad & cucumber

Amazake pudding

Beer

Dinner

Buckwheat burger, quinoa salad, cucumber & saurkraut

Ale

I’m just waiting for some home made spelt, onion & olive bread to cook before I retire for the evening and it smells wonderful! Mmmm!

Love, light & magic & spelt filled dreams!!

Sharlene

Hola!

Day 20

Breakfast

Oat cakes & rice cakes

Ame kuzu drink

Lunch

Wakame & lotus soup, brown rice with gomasio, stewed onions and sauerkraut

Dinner

We went out for a celelbratory dinner this evening at a really nice restaurant…

Wine

Olives & dried maize

Rabbit & mushroom

Scallops, crab, prawn & avacado pate

Halibut, sea bass, cod, chips

Wholewheat bread

Cheese & biscuits & a macaroon dessert & another little dessert of sponge & a chocolate

Mmmm!

Day 21

Breakfast

Brown rice porridge with onions

Lunch

One very amazing little pie made from wheat, sweet rice & sauerkraut

Maize snacks

Dinner

A pie made from millet, carrot, onion, swede & buckwheat pastry

Brocolli with ume su & corn

1 beer

Apple & blackberry tart 

Macro love

Sharlene

Hello

I have returned from another amazing trip to Serbia. Now it seems that life is about to change again as we prepare for another move (we are relocating!). You know, I am pretty certain that I must have been a nomad or a gypsy or something in a previous life because this will be about the 40th (at least) time I’ve moved in my life! Crazy hey? Nonetheless, I am really excited and looking forward to a change of energy & surroundings which I always find very inspiring!

I got to spend some time in the mountains in Serbia away from civilisation – ahhh it was magical & very helpful for learning more deeply about macrobiotics and this wonderful life!

It was kind of fun to have some non macro food too. I used to feel kind of naughty and perhaps a little guilty for doing this kind of thing before but now it feels fun and I like to just embrace it and enjoy whatever it is I’m eating & drinking. I know that that is just for that moment and that I will always return to eating for health (rather than just for pleasure). In some way, it’s like a challenge & it can be really interesting to see what kind of effect it has on one’s being!  

So, yesterday’s food (August 19th)

Breakfast

A good old rest for my stomach

Lunch

Ume, sho, kuzu drink (made with umeboshi plum, shoyu & kuzu)

Dinner

A beautiful lotus root & wakame miso soup

Pizza with a brown rice base topped with squash, pepper, tofu & black olives

A creamy millet dish made with radishes and white miso

Sauerkraut

Ahhh!! You just cannot beat proper food!!!

A whole load of love & light

Sharlene

Good Greetings!!!

I must apologies for going a.w.o.l! I have been in Serbia for the past few days and I haven’t found the time to write.

I have found the time, however, to eat some wonderful macro food, spend some time in nature and to connect to the wonderful energy that is all around us.  Ahhh!

Yesterday, I engaged in some ‘non macro eating’. I had some white bread and also a dessert (I’ll have to post a photo of it when I return – it was some kind of pancake with this chocolatey creamy sauce) which was cool and interesting! My stomach certainly finds it very interesting this morning!

So, just to let you know that I’ll be back in a couple of days & look forward to keeping you up to date.

Love,  joy & wisdom

Sharlene

Hallo!

Another day of simply simple food:

Breakfast

Brown rice porridge with shoyu

Lunch

The nicest brown rice and sweet rice bread type thing!! mmmm!

Porridge with a little rice syrup

Twig tea

Dinner

Brown rice porridge with an umeboshi plum (ahhh the plum was delicious!) and a couple of rice crackers

Grain coffee

Mmmm!

Love & light

Sharlene