Macrobiotics and Me

Hello!

Here I am – late posting again.

I was in Devon until Sunday. I arrived home at 10pm, then I left at 5.30 am and returned at 10pm, then another 5.30 start this morning and here I am, finally finding the time to write. I hope you forgive me for my lateness!

I had another really great weekend in Devon and I am feeling incredibly happy at the prospect of qualifying and finishing my training to become a Macrobiotic Counsellor yayyyyyyy!!!

Sunday’s food:

Breakfast

Hot lemon

Miso soup

Oat and brown rice porridge with steamed greens

Lunch

Plaice with veg, rice risotto, carrots and broccoli, pressed carrot salad, sauerkraut, gherkins

Quinoa cookies and custard with aduki and chestnut balls

Dinner

No dinner for me this evening as I was travelling and not so hungry

Monday

Breakfast

Miso soup and brown rice stew

Lunch

The same as Sunday’s lunch (including pudding!) - I had some leftovers with me

Dinner

Miso soup with  brown rice stew & sauerkraut

Tuesday

Breakfast

Barley porridge and miso soup

Lunch

Miso soup, buckwheat with tahini and furikake, fried greens and carrots, a dulse, caper and saurkeraut salad

Tofu cheesecake

Dinner

A little tipple of twig tea – I wasn’t hungry although as I write this I am and I already can’t wait for breakfast tomorrow – ahhh it feels so good to say that. I think breakfast is making a comeback in my life – woo! I reckon it’s not over eating so much, getting up earlier and an improved digestive system which has helped ;0)

OK, now for a couple of photos:

Love & light

Sharlene

Good Evening!

Today’s food

Breakfast

Miso soup & quinoa porridge with sesame and pumpkin seed bars

Lunch

Brown rice balls, cabbage, tofu stew, a pickled gherkin and sauerkraut

Apple and polenta pudding

Dinner

Brown rice and chestnuts, broccoli and cauliflower with a tangy dressing, roasted pumpkin & squash & tempeh stew

Mmm amazing food today and it’s been amazing learning more about macrobiotics and being with fellow macrotarians I am blessed!

I wish more people knew about macrobiotics because it is seriously incredible!

Love & light

Sharlene

BOO!

More apologies for going AWOL! The last couple of days have been extremely busy. I was in Serbia for a week and came straight back to travel to Devon for macro studies

Whilst in Serbia we spent alot of time with family. I didn’t keep an exact list of everything I ate and I’m not sure I can recall it all but I did have a little bit of ‘normal’ food on Monday as we were at a funeral and I was interested to try some Serbian cuisine!! This involved a little meat, dairy and sweet stuff. It was ok but it just made me feel so glad that I know about macrobiotics and that I don’t eat that kind of food all the time. I also found that eating sugar was like eating nothing and that it just kind of disintegrates into nothing – it’s such an empty food! The next day after that I fasted until the evening and had a nice soup and a lovely brown rice and vegetable stew.

The day after I had miso soup with millet for breakfast.

For lunch I had brown rice salad with cucumber and cabbage pickles and the same for dinner with an oat biscuit dessert.

On Wednesday I didn’t have breakfast and arrived in Devon for lunch which was lovely. We had millet mash, tempeh, beetroot, greens & carrots with a dressing and then for dessert an amazake pudding which was lovely.

For dinner: barley soup, bulgar wheat, wakame salad, beetroot and roasted squash.

Today – Day (what date/day is it?!!! – I get totally lost in time when I come down to Devon!!)

Breakfast

Miso soup & oat porridge with greens and roasted seeds

Lunch

Bean soup with sour dough & greens

Sweet rice pudding with chestnuts & a sesame seed and almond crunch

Dinner

Millet croquettes, sauerkraut, aduki bean bake, carrot purree & hijiki dish

Barley cup and a couple of waffles  

I have a photo from today so I’ll post soon & try to take some more tomorrow.

Loads of love & macro bliss

Sharlene

Hello

It’s been a couple of days since I updated here as I’m in Serbia at the moment and getting into life without computers which I must admit is total bliss!

Here goes my attempt at remembering what I’ve been eating…I’m going to start with today and work my way backwards!

Today – Day 21

No Breakfast

Lunch – a simple soup made from chickpeas, wakame & squash

Buckwheat and millet with sunflower seeds & onions and a lemon miso sauce

Stewed carrots, onion and cabbage, roasted squash and pickled cucumber and cabbage

Mu tea brown rice pudding with raisins and sunflower seeds – mmm! This dessert was amazing

Dinner

Brown rice pie made & boiled cabbage with ume su

Bancha tea

Day 20

No breakfast

Lunch

Onion and wakame soup

Brown rice & buckwheat burgers with squash sauce, wheat stew, corn & kuzu & salad

Apple & squash cake with corn flour base

Bancha tea

Dinner

Soup from lunch

Wheat from lunch mixed with corn, boiled cabbage and pickles

Rice cakes with tahini and barley malt & grain coffee

Day 19

No breakfast

I can’t remember what we had exactly – oops! I’m sure we had a soup, grains and vegetables but exactly what soup, what grain and what vegetable escapes me!!

Loads of macro & full moon love

Sharlene

Hello

Yesterday’s food:

Breakfast - nothing!

Lunch - brown rice salad and lentils followed by oat fudge and twig tea

Dinner - brown rice salad, lentils, fish, home made sauerkraut & some toast with home made jam

1 beer and a little taste of home made wine

Day 18

No breakfast

Lunch -brown rice with gomasio, steamed cabbage & carrots & home made sauerkraut

chicory coffee

Dinner - buckwheat stew with onions and carrot and home made sauerkraut & oat balls made with home made jam

green tea

Macro love

Sharlene

Hola!

I’ve been on a super fast ride on the yin and yang roller coaster this evening and it has been interesting and informative!…

Breakfast

Soup/stew from last night

Lunch

Soup/stew from last night with blanched kale and toasted sunflower seeds.

Twig tea

Dinner

Soup/stew from last night. I didn’t have time to cook today so I purposely made more to take with me  to save time.

After dinner I still felt hungry so I took a little walk to a shop and bought some beetroot and parsnip chips. But then I still felt hungry so on my way to the train station I decided to swing by another shop and get some brown rice bars!!

The crisps and even the brown rice bars I realise finally, after what seems to have taken me forever to recognise, are just a bit too yang for me. How do I knwo that? Well, after that, when I got home I spotted an orange in the fridge and I just couldn’t resist eating it and it was like heaven! followed by a cup of red bush tea with oat milk which was like another little sneak preview of heaven!

I always find that once I have too much yang, I need yin. But then I have too much yin and then before I know it I’m lost! So tomorrow, I’ll be super conscious (ooo!) about my food choices and get back to playing the game properly because yin and yang and the application of it to one’s life and one’s eating habits is like a game – a pretty cool one if you ask me

Love

Sharlene

Greetings!

Wow, that is alot of days gone by again!

Day 12

I didn’t eat anything because I felt unwell and really didn’t want to eat. I had a couple of cups of chamomile tea

Day 13

Breakfast -  ume-sho-kuzu drink

Lunch - miso and vegetable soup with pasta and brown rice, bancha tea

Dinner - barley stew made with leeks and shiitakes, brown rice noodle sushi, pea soup & a special Czech tea created for the liver/spleen

Day 14

Breakfast – bancha tea & a little brown rice

Lunch – Miso, pasta, brown rice & veg soup

Dinner – nothing as I wasn’t hungry again!

Day 15 – today!

Breakfast

Brown rice milk with a splash of shoyu

Lunch

Home made brown rice pasta (made by one very wonderful macro man in a simple shoyu broth

Brown rice milk with amazake

Dinner

A thick soup/stew made from brown rice, barley stew (with leeks & shiitakes), onion, carrot, nori and a little ginger seasoned with miso and a little shoyu with some freshly blanced greens and toasted pumpkin seeds – mmm a lovely dinner!

A mix of twig tea and roasted brown rice and green tea!

I’ve had way too much baked & heavy yang food recently which I can feel has not been good for the old liver. So now it’s time to tigthen the macro belt a little and start eating in a more cleansing way in a bid to give my liver a break!  

Loads of love & light

Sharlene

Hello

I’ve had a busy evening preparing lots of food. I am heading down to Glastonbury tomorrow for 3 days so I want to make sure I’ll eat well whilst I’m there. It took about 3 hours to get everything done! and guess what? no bread!!! yayy!

Breakfast

Nothing!

Lunch

Brown rice cream with an umeboshi plum and shoyu

Pecan pie – wow! amazing!

Dinner

Miso pasta soup, barley stew with leeks and shiitakes & tuna fish pie. I was going to have some veg aswell (see photo) but I couldn’t eat it all in the end. The fish pie was sooo nice. I made it with tuna, capers and peas. Mmm!

Love & light

Sharlene

Good Evening!

I’ve just made a delicious looking pecan pie – I hope it will taste as good as it looks! (I’ll taste and post a photo tomorrow).

Breakfast

No breakfast for moi this morning

Lunch

Leftover soup from yesterday with buckwheat and wakame added & some alfalfa sprouts

Brown rice and gomasio, blanched carrots, celeriac & squash, sauerkraut, olives and millet balls with a miso sauce

Buckwheat, raisin, amazake and hazelnut pudding

Amazake drink

Dinner

I didn’t have anything tonight as I wasn’t hungry but I did end up eat some pecans and a bit of the pie filling (I couldn’t resist whilst I was making the pie!!).  Probably not such a clever thing to have a couple of pecans and amazake pecan filling for dinner!

Macro blessings

Sharlene

HELLOOOO!

Wow – that is alot of days to catch up on. I wanted to write yesterday but after a seriously hectic day I just couldn’t so I hope you forgive me!

Where do I start? How about Saturday? So, I got up mega early (at about 3am) to begin my travels. The airport was a breeze. The only thing we were questioned on was the grain salad that we took in jars because it showed up on the scanner and they thought it was jam!

I didn’t have breakfast on Saturday morning and waited to get to the Kushi Institute to eat. Ahh I was soo excited to be visiting and having the opportunity to meet a lovely fellow macro and to sample some of the food. The food was amazing although I must admit that I am a little disappointed at how expensive it was. Nonetheless, it was a wonderful experience and if I lived nearer I would definitely eat there more often! I had some brown rice with aduki beans, rice croquettes, pasta, broccoli and a mixture of salads (pressed, pickles, olives, hummus).  Some home made oat ohsawa bread and home made fudge.  Followed by a giant oat cookie and some grain coffee with hazelnut milk – mmm!

Saturday evening – we had dinner in our cabin (we stayed on a little boat which was cool!): rice balls wrapped in nori with umebosh paste, millet salad, oat bread with olives, some more fudge, some milk and 1/2 a brown rice bar.

Sunday

Breakfast

A couple of crackers with peanut butter and packed miso soup

Lunch

We went to a lovely little vegetarian/vegan cafe and had some split pea soup with bread and home made oat bread tofu sandwich. I also had  a beer and then a lovely oat flapjack type thing (sugar and dairy free)

a couple more beers

Dinner

Seafood pizza and pasta with a couple of small glasses of red wine

Monday

Nothing for breakfast or lunch  but a good old rest for my body and stomach!

For dinner I had an amazake drink – ahhh how I love amazake. I’m really gutted Clearspring don’t make it anymore and it seems there are no easily available replacements just yet (I must make some soon and that reminds me that I  must make some pickles and setian too!)

Tuesday

Breakfast

Amazake drink – mmm!

Lunch

A thick millet and vegetable miso  soup made from onion, carrot, pumpkin, arame & millet with a sesame seed and miso garnish - this felt perfect for me today!

Dinner

Soup from lunch but with more water added.

Millet & lotus  burgers, buckwheat with gomasio, steamed carrots and broccoli & sauerkraut

Amazake drink & a couple of mouthfuls of tomorrow’s dessert made from buckwheat, raisins, amazake and roasted hazelnuts

Now time for photos:

Lots of macrolicious love and light