Macrobiotics and Me

Hello

All I can say about my time in Devon this weekend is WOW, WOW, WOW! I LOVE LOVE LOVE Macro school It was a really fantastic weekend and I think it may take me a few days to reflect & take it all in!

Do you ever have moments in your understanding of macrobiotics where it just moves into another place? that’s where I feel at the moment, as though I am on the brink of deepening my understanding and ahhh something about it feels really really good!

Breakfast

Miso soup & porridge with raisins & roasted seeds

Lunch

Quinoa, aduki pie, broccoli & cabbage, nori condiment, roasted sweet potato & a pepper sauce

Apple cake & some chestnut pie with a blueberry sauce – 2 desserts…it was someone’s birthday

I managed to squeeze in dessert number 3 too by having some more apple cake a little later in the day!

Twig tea

Dinner

Quinoa, broccoli, cabbage, red lentils & aduki beans & sweet potato – and a few funny looks on the train!!

An apple – I haven’t had an apple for ages & someone gave it to me so I decided to eat it on the train & mmm, it hit the spot!

I’m feeling very excited about my imminent trip to Serbia. I just heard it is snowing out there right now (eeek….I’m just getting into spring mode and now I’m going to have to rewind to winter mode again which feels a little strange!).

OK, time to dream!

Love & light

Sharlene

Bonjourno

I must be quick, my battery is going to run out and I must get to bed!

I’ve had an amazing day learning about cancer with Chico – he’s a great teacher & macro man

Breakfast

Miso soup with mixed veg & porridge with roasted seeds

Lunch

Hummus, sour dough bread, lentil soup, watercress with a dressing & brown rice

baked apple with cream

some twig tea

Dinner

Onion soup

Red lentil dahl, quinoa, salsify & swede nishime, broccoli with a tahini dressing

1/2 a pint of ale, and then another 1/4!

1/2 an umeboshi plum

a whole load of love & light

Sharlene

Good Evening!

Today has been just wonderful. It’s been so refreshing to experience another macro teacher.

Breakfast

Nothing for me today!

Lunch

Fish & millet pie, courgettes with a pumpkin seed sauce, nishime onion, parsnip & carrot, pressed salad

A berry kanten

Twig tea

Dinner

Pumpkin soup

Brown rice, hijiki roll, sauerkraut & gherkins, tempeh & carrot stew & stir fried veg

A whole load of macro love & light

Sharlene

Hello

Ahh, I am loving being at macro school , it’s amazing!

Breakfast

Miso soup with lots of veg

Brown rice porridge with seeds, brocolli & a spoonful of chickpeas

Lunch

Noodles in a broth with the most delicious squash and tofu tempura, boiled salad with a pumpkin seed dressing

Followed by pear & apricot crumble and custard

Dinner

Oh my, dinner was a little bit of this and a little bit of that…we did a hands on cooking class today and I ended up trying a bit of everyone’s many dishes. I must have eaten a spoonful of about a million dishes!! plus many desserts I think I’ll definitely be skipping breakfast tomorrow!!!

We have Chico Varatojo visiting us at macro school at the moment which is very exciting. We’ll spend the next few days with him listening to his teachings and experiences and I can’t wait. I hope he is inspiring, I have a feeling he will be yay!

Love & light

Sharlene

Good Evening

I’m in Devon at macro school & ahhhhhhh!!!!!

Breakfast

Hmm, it was more like brunch and it went like this:

a really delicious fish curry made with tomato, ginger, carrot tops, carrot & onion with cous cous

Followed by the most amazing pudding made of sweet rice, raisins, tahini & I added some cocoa to fulfil my chocolate desire that I had (rather than buying chocolate with sugar in it!)

1/2 a pint of guiness (to relax me on my travels

Dinner

Corn & celery soup

Brown rice, arame & almonds, cabbage with olive oil, chickpea stew & pressed red cabbage salad (with fennel I think!). Mmmm!

I’m beginning to feel excited about next week when I’ll be making my way to Serbia for a retreat. My husband and I are going to be staying in the mountains with nothing much else other than ourselves, a bed, something to cook on and simple food for just under 6 weeks. This has been a dream/fantasy of mine for a loooonnggg time and now it’s about to happen & my soul is oh so ready . My body is really looking forward to it too

A whole load of love & light

Sharlene

Hello!

Breakfast

Hot lemon with bancha & barley grass

Lunch

Miso soup with oinon, mugwort mochi & wakame – so simple but delicious

Millet & cauliflower, nishime carrot, parsnip & cabbage with gomasio

Millet & raisin pudding

Dinner

Miso soup from lunch, millet from lunch & a cabbage, squash & chickpea dish

Some home made hummus – with way too much garlic (I’ve just woken up and I taste garlic…yuk, yuk, yuk!!) with a couple of rice cakes

I am off to Devon today for macro fun & studies. I’ll be learning about cancer this week so it will be really interesting. I’ll take lots of photos (I promise) and update you regularly.

Here’s some photos I’ve been meaning to post…

Love & light

Sharlene

Breakfast

Hot lemon bancha with barley grass

Lunch

Squash, kombu & miso soup

Brown rice with the loveliest red lentil, carrot top & tomato curry with blanched cauliflower

Brown rice with raisins – mmm such a simple but really delicious dessert!!

Bright mood tea

Dinner

Miso soup from lunch

Museli with bancha tea

Love & Light

Sharlene

Breakfast

Hot lemon

Lunch

Barley stew (made with onion, swede, carrot, carrot tops, garlic, wakame)

OK, so my detox only kind of lasted until the afternoon!!

Cous cous cake

Twig tea

Snack

Rice cakes with hummus and jam & tahini

Dinner

Nothing for dinner

Hello again!

Breakfast

Brown rice cream

Lunch

Brown rice, parsnip & onion kuzu curry (mmm this was soo nice, I can’t remember the last time I had curry!), wheat & barley balls from last night with a squash sauce & a couple of home made onion pickles

Museli with oat milk & twig tea & some twig tea

Beer

Dinner

Brown rice porridge with peas, carrots & carrot tops

Cous cous cake

Tomorrow is going to be a bit of a cleanse/detox day yay!

Love & light

Sharlene

Hello

Yesterday’s food was simple:

Breakfast

Museli & oat milk

Lunch

Butter bean miso soup

Barley & wheat salad with home made pickles & baked squash

Raisin & wheat dessert & grain coffee

Dinner

Barley & wheat balls baked in the oven with miso soup poured over as a sauce

Love & light

Sharlene