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Sharon: Excellent posting...whether to use bread making and other machines to make macrobiotic food. Also, you mentioned your young child. Please let me comment. Of course you can use machines to cook! But be careful which macrobiotic bread making machine you buy...they have flooded the market recently. Every day, my mailbox is flooded with junk mail, most of which is for macrobiotic bread making machines. I have a mind to complain to the US Postal authorities. In addition to bread making machines, you can also buy rice steamers, for good, fluffy white rice (has no fat & high in simple carbohydrates) better than any burned-out macrobiotic counsellor could make it! Your young tot will love it. Alternte this with some organic cream of wheat, and he will grow up with strong bones and teeth that will outlast those of any pre-eminent macrobiotic leader. May I suggest something else? To go along with the machine made bread, cream of wheat, etc., try some of Michio Kushi's parboiled rice. It is, as his NASDAQ listed company literature says, "Perfect food for an imperfect world" or something like that. You are thinking, "Well, what about Uncle Ben's Rice". Well, Sharon, I know Michio Kushi, and let me tell you, Uncle Ben is no Michio Kushi. Mr. Kushi uses only the BEST par-boiled rice in his ingredients, yes, and his salad dressing I heard contains good quality canola (or other suitable) oil. So, I think he would be proud that you would be thinking of making bread with a bread-making machine, to eat with his par-boiled rice, bottled salad dressing, and other similar products. In fact, rumor on the net is that his organization may begin to market bread-making machines, although I cannot verify this. Don't forget that coffee grinder to make your gomasio. I mean, why get tennis elbow (or carpal tunnel syndrome) by churning that mortar and pestle, when you can push a button and get the 'same' product? Why make good hand stone-ground bread that is full of ki life energy, when you can do it the easy way, by using flour that was milled God knows when, and have a machine do all the work for you. I am sure, with contemplation, you will figure out the best way to do it. Harold |