Macrobiotics and Me

Hello!

I am sitting in the kitchen as I write this waiting for some Ohsawa bread to bake and waiting for brown rice to finish doing it’s thing in the pressure cooker. I’m going to be away for the next few days and I’m not sure what the food situation is going to be so I’m going to take some things to make sure I can’t eat well

Breakfast

Nothing

Lunch

Aduki miso soup

Buckwheat with onions, shoyu & tahini, dried daikon & carrots, salad made of lettuce, red onions & oven baked tofu & takuan pickle & some natto

Last night I got my Mum to try some natto and HA HA HA HA HA!! Natto is one of those things that you either love or hate and she hated it!! I was surprised that she wanted to try a bit and for a split second it looked like she was going to like. But then she couldn’t spit it out soon enough and said it was probably the worst thing she’d EVER tasted!!!  He he he he he! My husband hates it too!!

Carrot juice

Dinner

The same as dinner

Museli with apple juice

A whole load of wholesome macro love

Sharlene

Hola!

Late posting again by me…eeek!

Autumn is here and I love it!

Day 28

Breakfast

Black beansoup with rye sour dough toast with tahini & miso & a slice with tahini and sugar free jam & twig tea

Lunch

Brown rice, carrot & squash nishime and sauerkraut

1 oat bar

Dinner

Brown rice, nishime veg, home made cauliflower pickles (mmm), roasted almonds and walnuts, kale, tofu & spring onion, black bean salad

Amasake pudding

Day 29

Breakfast

Black bean soup with tye toast again! & twig tea

Lunch

Brown rice & barley, carrot, squash & onion nishime

Rice milk pudding

Rye toast

Dinner

Same as lunch

Life has been way too hectic recently and I’m more than looking forward to the 1st November when I’ll have much more time and freedom on my hands

Love & light

Sharlene

Hellooooo!

Yesterday’s food went like so:

Breakfast

Ohsawa bread with sauerkraut

Lunch

Barley stew from the previous day, blanched brocolli, Ohsawa bread & sauerkraut

Aduki bean truffles & twig tea

1/2 a pint of ale

Dinner

Ohsawa bread

Corn flakes with raisins!

Popcorn

1/2 pint beer

And today’s food:

Breakfast

Shiitake broth

Lunch

Quinoa salad with mixed vegetables & kidney beans

Rye sour dough bread with tahini & jam

Dinner

Rye sour dough bread with tahini & miso & some with tahini and jam

Twig tea

Lots of macro love

Sharlene

Greetings!

Yesterday’s food was pretty yang and left me fantasising about fresh vegetables!! But I was on the road and dinner was whatever I coud find in the supermarket that was as macro as can be!!

Breakfast

Sprouted rye bread with miso and tahini & twig tea

Lunch

The most amazing tofu, mixed salad leaves, caramelised onion & tofu sandwiches with mustard

Soup made from brown rice, carrot, wakame & onion

Dinner

Rice and corn cakes with olives

Museli with oat milk

Today:

Breakfast

A good old bowl of nothing!

Lunch

A really yummy split pea & vegetable soup with parsley

Brown rice with gomasio, roasted squash & carrot, pressed celeriac & mixed salad leaves

Brown rice, raisin, pumpkin seed & tahini dessert

Dinner

Barley & brown rice stew with prawns, swede, onion, carrot & burdock and a pressed chinese cabbage, radish and lemon salad

Rice cakes with syrup & mu tea

Thursday – Day 23

Breakfast

Nothing

Lunch

Sour dough bread toasted with tahini & miso & with sugar free jam

Dinner

Brown rice, a lovely onion & kuzu pie, takuan, sauerkraut & cucumber

Twig tea

Ahhh!

Love & light

Sharlene

Howdy!

I’m late in posting again…eeek! I hope in November, I’ll have lots more time and I’ll be able to share more with you

Day 21

Breakfast

Oat porridge

Sprouted wheat bread & sauerkraut

Lunch

Brown rice, green beans, swede & carrots with gomasio & takuan pickle

Roasted almonds

Dinner

Brown rice, green beans, celeriac, sauekraut, gomasio, carrots

Cous cous & raisin dessert – HA, it seems I spoke to soon about not having desserts in the week. But I really felt like having some so I did!

Shoyu popcorn

Day 22

Breakfast

Brown rice porridge with shoyu

Lunch

Brown rice porridge with shoyu, sprouted wheat bread & sauerkraut

Brown rice pudding (another dessert…oopsy!)

Dinner

Brown rice porridge & corn chips

Love & magic

Sharlene

Good Evening!

Another macrolicious day passes by:

Breakfast

Nothing again! Mmm, this seems to be my favourite breakfast at the moment!

Lunch

Lentil soup from yesterday, millet with tekka, cabbage, sauekraut, takuan pickle & brown rice, aduki & wheat burger with umeboshi dressing

Sprouted wheat bread with ginger and chestnuts (this was my dessert)

Dinner

No dinner! I wasn’t hungry so I’m not eating! There have been too many times when I’ve eaten just because it’s ‘time’ but I’m trying to break out of this habit.

No drinks today

I’m really enjoying my new regime of not having any sweet desserts in the week but enjoying them over the weekend instead. This structure is really helpful for me. I know that if I say I can’t have anything then something inside me panics and I want more as a result of that, but if I say to myself, ok, no sweet desserts in the week, but I can have non sweet/fruit ones (like squash, chestnuts etc) then I feel alot better. Plus, it’s sooo nice having something to look forward to at the weekend and feeling like I have earned dessert! It feels like such a revelation to find a way of eating that works!

Love & light

Sharlene

Good Evening!

Yesterday we decided to take a drive to the sea side so I made a mini macro feast to take with us .

Breakfast

None!

Lunch

A soup/stew made from leftovers: millet, buckwheat, squash sauce, aduki soup

Ohsawa bread made from sweet rice, oats & brown rice, carrot, onion, poppy seeds and sunflower seeds

Sweet rice, oat & brown rice cookie made from raisins & apple juice

Mmm, macro lunch on the beach was wonderful! OK, a macro lunch anywhere is pretty wonderful but particularly so on a beach

Dinner

Buckwheat, millet & corn salad

Apple juice

Day 19

Breakfast

Breakfastlessness – ahh tis becoming normal now to not break my fast until lunchtime!

Lunch

Soup made from celery, green lentils, carrot, kombu

Brown rice & aduki with tekka, roasted parsnips with a tahini dip, pressed carrot salad & takuan pickle

Stewed apple which was then baked with a raisin sauce & served with a brown rice and coconut biscuit

Twig tea

Dinner

Millet, brown rice, aduki & wheat burger with umeboshi sauce, boiled cabbage, sauerkraut & pressed salad

Grain coffee

A whole load of macro love, light & laughter

Sharlene

Greetings!

Yesterday’s food:

Breakfast

A little twig tea

Lunch

Millet & noodles from day before & some sauerkraut

Dinner

I fasted last night which felt soooo good

Day 17

Breakfast

Barley milk – mmmm, fresh, home made & delicious

Lunch

Millet & buckwheat with tekka, carrots, onions & swede, sauerkraut & lettuce salad

Brown rice cake balls made with pumpkin seeds, sunflower seeds, raisins & a little malt syrup  with a yummy custard. Mmm

Grain coffee

Dinner

Corn chips with a squash, dulse & onion dip, buckwheat, corn & millet salad with green beans & cucumber & sauerkraut

Apple juice

I soooooo cannot wait for November to arrive as it means I will have more time to totally immerse myself in all things macro – ahhhh yayyyy! I’m so excited.

Loads of macrolicious lovin

Sharlene

Good Evening!

I’ve had an eventful couple of days & I’m happy to be writing to you once again!

Yesterday’s food was:

Breakfast

Buckwheat porridge with shoyu & tahini

Whole oats with chestnuts, squash & onion

Lunch

Brown rice, gomasio, takuan pickle (mmm, I love this stuff. I think my intestines really love it too! ), stewed swede, onions & squash & curly kale

Dinner

Squash, onion & carrot soup with arame

Wheat cracker, brown rice, millet, carrots, onions & squash mash with pumpkin and sunflower seeds & sauerkraut

Today’s food:

Breakfast

No thing!

Lunch

Squash, carrot & arame soup

Buckwheat, millet (with gomasio), onions, carrot & pumpkin, tekuan pickle, sauerkraut

Twig tea – ahh I love this stuff!

Dinner

Whole wheat & buckwheat noodles, with onions, garlic, ginger, carrot, leeks and furikake, natto with shoyu & mustard (natto smells pretty disgusting and perhaps you might find it a little gross to taste too. I used to find it strange but I must admit it is growing on me!), sauerkraut cabbage rolls

Lovely food! I’ve decided to try and avoid desserts in the week and this is my second week of doing so. I must admit I feel sooo much better and more alive!

I was at the doctors today and I found it sooo interesting to see how my doctor dealt with me & my questions. I found myself dreaming about the day when we can walk into a doctors and it is all macrofied, ahhh! I love this dream! One day it will be reality for sure, I know it!

Love & light

Sharlene

Hey!

Yesterday’s food was:

Breakfast

Sweet rice & oat waffles with white miso & with tahini & malt syrup

Lunch

Brown rice & barley paella, olives, sauerkraut, pressed cucumber

Brown rice cakes with raisin, tahini, malt syrup & pumpkin seeds

Dinner

Red lentil soup with wakame

Cous cous and buckwheat with chestnuts, onion & swede stewed, pressed cucumber

Grain coffee

and today’s food:

Breakfast

Home made oat milk

More home made oat milk with an umeboshi plum

Lunch

Rice cakes with sauerkraut

Oat milk

Dinner

Rice cakes with black olives

Oat milk

Mmmm! I love home made grain milks. I used to love rice milk (you know the stuff you can get ready made), but after a while, I could feel that it just isn’t so good to be drinking that kind of stuff so often. It’s really processed and it contains lots of ingredients. If you are new to macrobiotics, then it is wonderful to use instead of milk, but over time, it’s important, especially if you want your condition to improve, to wean yourself off of it and if you need a replacement, make your own! It’s much more satisfying, affordable and nutritious!

Love & light

Sharlene