Macrobiotics and Me

Howdy!

Brunch!

Sushi, oat & sweet rice & carrot pie, takuan pickle & steamed onions

Dinner

Brown rice paella with mussels, prawns & mackarel

Sauerkraut, baked pumpkin

a small glass of ale

apple & pear & barley dessert & a dessert made out of rice cakes, sunflower seeds, raisins & malt

Love & light

Sharlene

Hey!

Day 9

Breakfast

shiitake broth – mmmm!

Lunch

Brown rice & barley, broad bean & onions, sauerkraut,  curly kale with dressing & roasted carrots & mixed nuts

Twig tea & chestnuts

Dinner

Tofu pizza, quinoa salad, takuan pickle

cous cous, squash & chestnut cake & apple & barley pudding

grain coffee

Day 10

Breakfast

Tofu pizza with sauerkraut

Lunch

Quinoa salad

Dinner

Brown rice, sweetcorn patties, roasted carrots & salad with furikake & ume paste & sauerkraut

Apple & barley pudding

Grain coffee

Popcorn and nachos later & some hot water!

Love & light

Sharlene

Hello!

Breakfast

Buckwheat & amaranth porridge with tahini & shoyu – mmm this was exactly what I needed this morning

Lunch

Soup made with aduki beans, dried daikon, dried burkdock, hijiki & shoyu

Quinoa salad with green bean, pumpkin seeds, sunflower seeds, carrots, celery & cabbage with shoyu, tahini & ume paste

Oat cake made with chestnuts and squash

Sauerkraut, takuan pickel & kale

Dinner

Soup, quinoa salad & oat cake with sauekraut

Later I had a moutful of natto, a couple of roasted nuts & a taste of stewed beans and onions that I’ve made for tomorrow.

No drinks again today

A whole load of macro love & light

Sharlene

Good Evening!

Breakfast

Buckwheat porridge with shoyu

Lunch

Brown rice with gomasio, stewed carrot, onion & marrow with kuzu and furikake, sauerkraut & curly kale

Roasted chestnuts

Dinner

Brown rice with gomasio, roasted pumpkin and sunflower seeds, stewed veg from lunch & saurkraut

A few more chestnuts – mmm!

A little slither of takuan pickle which I absolutely love!

No drinks again today

I feel so excited to go to bed and to wake up tomorrow!!! This is a feeling that always increases whenever I eat ‘properly’. Long may it continue

I must also share with you a one day event taking place on 23rd October. Check it out on www.macrobiotics.org.uk I’ll be doing a cooking demonstration with one of my macro partners in crime yayy! I hope I’ll see you there

A whole load of love & light

Sharlene

Greetings!

I have returned from yet another truly incredible weekend at the Macro School. That place is just pure magic and I will never be able to say in words how much happiness and gratitude I feel for having discovered it!

I’m sorry I didn’t keep you posted whilst I was there. I can tell you that I ate some really wonderful food, discovered more insightful things about macrobiotics, learnt some new things about myself AND I got to share this with some really amazing people.

The funny thing is that I took my camera but I didn’t take a single photo (apart from on the train journey on the way home!!!). But next time I will defintely take lots of photos of the food and share that with you

I have come back home feeling clearer about my health, my imbalances and what is going to be useful for me and I’m feeling determined to make some improvements to my condition. I only have about four weeks until I return so in that time I hope I can apply my knowledge to myself. We’ll see!

Breakfast

Whole oat porridge with shoyu

Lunch

Aduki and squash soup – mmm, this was soo sweet and delicious!

Barley and sweet rice (this combination is sooo yummy!) with gomasio

Carrots, squash & onion nishime

Sauerkraut

Dinner

Soup from lunch

Barley and sweet rice with gomasio, carrots, squash & onion & broccoli

A few chestnuts mmmm so sweet!

Love & light

Sharlene

Good Evening!

WOW, September is here and autumn is on it’s way – yayyyy!

So it seems my intestine rescue mission did not get off to a good start today…

Breakfast

Sweet rice cake (I really do not recommend cake for breakfast)

Lunch

Noodle & prawn soup

Some dark chocolate (I really would not recommend chocolate either!)

A little tipple of twig tea

Dinner

Cauliflower soup with a little slice of bread

Brown rice with gomasio, cabbage & tempeh roll, nishime daikon and onion & brocolli

Ahhh it’s lovely to be back at macro school again

Abundant love & light

Sharlene

Hey!

Well, it seems that after my weekend of too much alcohol, overeating and too many desserts, my intestines are feeling the strain and now I must initiate some kind of rescue mission for my intestines! Thank God everything is always changing because with time as well as effort I am sure I can take much better care and therefore improve my condition. I am certain for some real deep healing to take place that I will have to put in great effort and I hope that I will be able to do that.

You know before I would wonder why it is that my intestines didn’t feel so good (bloating, gas) and I’d find some good reason for it without realising that it was actually ME who had caused by my food choices. Now, instead of looking outside for a reason I can see that it is actually my fault (mea culpa) and only I can change it.

Sometimes, it seems we have to keep repeating the same pattern again and again until we reach a point where we say enough is enough and then you can bring about a long lasting change. It starts with consciousness and ends with action and the space in between in a constant reminder or continued consciousness of the effects of whatever it is you are doing. I hope that we can all work towards this continued state of consciousness – imagine

Breakfast

Cous cous and peas & wheat bread

Lunch

Cous cous and peas

Aduki truffles

Twig tea

Dinner

Aduki bean soup with sauerkraut

I am off to Devon today to continue with my macrobiotic studies. Yay! I’ll try to take some photos to share with you & will hopefully be able to update you whilst I am there. In the meantime, eat, think & chew well

Love & light

Sharlene