Macrobiotic diet

This balance can be reached by avoiding unnatural foods, preferring unprocessed ones.

We avoid processed foods and use naturally grown organic foods. Every meal should have similar flavours: sour, sweet, spicy and salty. We choose our meals with special attention, so that they contain all the necessary nutrients, since taking vitamins and supplements is forbidden here.

Grains are at the base for this diet

For 10 days you should have 3 meals a day, prepared with cooked, roasted, mashed or ground grains. There is of course a little variety to the menu, but it remains very effective, since it lets you lose at least 4 kilogrammes. The menu can be supplied with fruit and vegetables, but grains should constitute 70% of your daily menu. You should finish your meals with some ensilage (you can make it with chopped cabbage, celery, cucumbers), which is a very important ingredient in the macrobiotic menu.

The healthiest foods are the whole ones

It’s very important, if possible, to eat only whole products, since they contain their right proportions between nutrients, such as proteins, carbohydrates, fats, vitamins and mineral salts. Macrobiotics includes vegetables and fruit as whole products. The ones that cannot be eaten as a whole, should be used to the end anyways. This means the parts we cut out (e.g. seed cores) from apples or pears should be cooked, and the liquid we obtain from them can be used as a base for fruit drinks or jellies. Plum or apricot pits, after drying them, can be opened up and used instead of almonds.

The art of preparing a meal

Although the macrobiotic diet products are simple, it is very important to prepare them properly. The right culinary art, which is according to the macrobiotic philosophy, will change the energy in them. The longer the products are cooked (in water, or steamed) the more of Yang ingredient is added to the meal. In order not to lose the smallest amount of valuable properties in food, it is best to prepare grain meals in a pressure cooker, and blanche the vegetables, by immersing them for a couple minutes in boiling water. Of course, the safest way to preserve the energy is to eat food in the unprocessed, raw form.