Macrobiotics and Me

Hello!

Yesterday’s food:

Breakfast

Really yummy barley porridge with a little tahini and shoyu

Lunch

Carrot & squash buckwheat pie & pressed leek salad, nori condiment

Brown rice bars & rice milk

Dinner

A couple of brown rice bars & some more rice milk

Day 5

Brunch

Pie from yesterday put into a pot with added water and turned into a lovely miso soup

Dinner

Ohsawa bread, beer & fudge!!

I’ve been busy today making food for another weekend of travels. I’ve made rice balls with umeboshi wrapped in nori, ohsawa bread, tofu sandwiches and fudge to take with us. I hope that we get through the airport ok with all this food!! he he! I must remember to pack mu tea and packet miso!  So, you won’t hear from me until Monday.

Have a wonderful weekend.

Love & light

Sharlene

Dobro Vece!

I had a great day yesterday. I felt great in the morning after fasting the day before. I ate only brown rice porridge until the afternoon when I ran out of food and felt soooo hungry! I love how fasting means you appreciate food so much more, it’s amazing!  So, I had quinoa salad, corn chips & brown rice bars with a little mu tea

For dinner I had some pasta with a squash sauce, followed by some oat fudge and a celebratory must have beer!

Day 3

Breakfast

A really delicious porridge of brown rice, a little hiziki and chestnuts with roasetd pumpkin seeds – mmmm soooo yummy!

Lunch

Squash & haricot bean miso soup

Millet balls  on salad leaves with an onion and kuzu gravy, roasted parsnips and carrot, fried celeriac with lemon & nori condiment

Oat fudge (this stuff is too good to be true – but the quantity I ate made it not so good – oops!!)

Dinner

Sweet veg drink – I wasn’t hungry after the feast earlier!

Love & light

Sharlene

Pinch Punch! I love the start of the month because it really feels like a great opportunity for fresh starts. Although of course, every day is a chance to start new things, the 1st of the month feels more significant for me for some reason and particularly the 1st November which is a particularly important time for me.

So, this month my focus is going to be on maximising my health and putting to good use all I know. I have been trying to do this as much as possible in the past but because of committments and time restraints I’ve always struggled to stay focused and time has got the better of me. But now, thank God (yes, really thank you God!), I have more time and I intend to put it to good use

Today I started with meditation, a body scrub & a cycle journey to the train station. I’m eating only brown rice porridge today as I feel such a need to give my body a rest. Ahhh!

I am going to see how long I can go on eating only brown rice for. I would love to do it for 10 days again but I’m going to see how it goes.

So, breakfast – brown rice porridge, lunch – brown rice porridge and dinner – brown rice porridge

No drinks today.

Love & light

Sharlene

Brunch

Roasted vegetable and brown rice tart, cous cous, mixed salad (green leaves, olives, sprouts, mixed veg, chickpeas) & sour dough bread

Brown rice & seed bars with barley cup and oat milk

Dinner

Rye bread with miso and tahini and olives

Brown rice bar

Grain coffee

Fudge made with milled oats

Beer – ahhh this was the best tasting beer EVER! I’ve never had a beer that tasted sooo good before which is a very strong indication that all that bread and food the last few days has been far too yang. I actually feel a bit like of loaf of bread at the moment. I feel like all I’ve eaten for the past couple of weeks is bread which is not good! But now I have no excuses as I have much more time on my hands (or at least I will have by next week!) and alot of determination to get my diet back on track

Some photos at last! I PROMISE more will follow soon

Brunch

Rye bread, mixed salad (sprouts, beetroot, chickpeas, olives), millet salad

Oat milk

Dinner

We were on a weekend away and with absolutely no where suitable for dinner we decided to have it in our hotel room so we had:

Rye bread, millet salad, sprouts, olives, chickpeas

Brown rice bars & raisin cookies with oat milk

Breakfast

Toast with miso

Lunch

Millet salad & lentil & vegetable soup

Dinner

A Chinese takeaway shared with my family – I had plain chow mein, chips & prawns with cashew nuts. It all doesn’t sound too bad but I dread to think what they put in there!! It tasted good of course. It was nice to share food with everyone. I think they were a little shocked that we were eating ‘normal’ food!! he he!

Ale

Fudge – sugar and dairy free