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Re: Beginning Practice of Macrobiotics
Effulgent,
Your balance will not be screwy if you eat the recommended percentages for whole balanced meals for Breakfast, Lunch, and Dinner.
Recommended percentages: 50-70% whole grains, 30% vegetables, (root vegetables and broad leafy greens, esp.), 5-10% soup, 5-10% beans, 5-10% sea vegetables and condiments, 5% other (fish, and macrobiotic desserts, etc.). Especially recommended is a cup of miso soup including a sea vegetable (wakame) and barley miso, aged over two years, at each meal.
Arrange foods you like within those parameters.
From your book list, it looks like you have a lot of good cookbooks, macrobiotic philosophy, self-healing information, guidance for beginning your knowledge and practice of yin and yang, and textbook cooking instructions...plus additionally, you have local macrobiotic resources for lecture information and hands on cooking classes.
Refining your cooking and knowledge of yin and yang will take time, self-reflection, and practice.
Looks like you have a good start.
Nancy
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-- Leon R. Kass, M.D. The Hungry Soul
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