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Access to nutrients. That is a big part of eating in a macrobiotic manner. Roasting, toasting, soaking, and in some cases boiling all allow the food to be digested swiftly, gently, in its best form. If your gut hurts right now, raw food is probably the opposite of what you should give it. I may say “Macrobiotic Diet” but what you should hear is, changing your eating habits so you are nourishing body and soul in celebrating what you eat.
Kukicha tea and roasted barley tea are constants in the day of someone living a macrobiotic life.
( Real tea with almost no caffeine. )
The links provided go to the exact brand I use, although I have not tried to order directly from Gold Mine. You can use tea bags, a “coffee pot” brewer, etc. with these teas – whatever works. But kukicha is as rare as fine coffee, and costs accordingly. The method I use gets me 16 cups tea to a 4 ball jar amount, 7 times. And that is just a ½ cup of twigs plus 12 Tbsp. of twigs.
Here’s the Gold Mine Natural Foods web site, and they do have other products I’ll talk about in coming posts. You may be able to buy the teas locally. I buy mine at the macrobiotic center in Austin, TX, Casa de Luz.
As I’ve said previously, Macrobiotics is not automatically gluten-free – you need to take steps in your meal preparation if you are striving for a gluten-free diet. I turned to macrobiotics when nothing, including cutting back on wheat, seemed to help my GI tract. Macrobiotic dining did help. I still use the boiled tea, and a three-year miso made by a domestic small company. (If my lab tests still show high gluten involvement, I will stop both of them. But for now, they don’t seem to have any negative affect. I suspect the gluten protein is long gone from both forms of barley, but this may just be in my case. Everyone responds differently to different amounts of gluten. Plan accordingly.)
Both these teas can be purchased as a box or packet of tea bags, if you don’t want to go all-out on this experiment. Gold Mine and Eden Foods both sell this tea in bags. Either way, I recommend you give them a try. Enjoy!
Kukicha tea and roasted barley tea are constants in the day of someone living a macrobiotic life.
( Real tea with almost no caffeine. )
The links provided go to the exact brand I use, although I have not tried to order directly from Gold Mine. You can use tea bags, a “coffee pot” brewer, etc. with these teas – whatever works. But kukicha is as rare as fine coffee, and costs accordingly. The method I use gets me 16 cups tea to a 4 ball jar amount, 7 times. And that is just a ½ cup of twigs plus 12 Tbsp. of twigs.
Here’s the Gold Mine Natural Foods web site, and they do have other products I’ll talk about in coming posts. You may be able to buy the teas locally. I buy mine at the macrobiotic center in Austin, TX, Casa de Luz.
As I’ve said previously, Macrobiotics is not automatically gluten-free – you need to take steps in your meal preparation if you are striving for a gluten-free diet. I turned to macrobiotics when nothing, including cutting back on wheat, seemed to help my GI tract. Macrobiotic dining did help. I still use the boiled tea, and a three-year miso made by a domestic small company. (If my lab tests still show high gluten involvement, I will stop both of them. But for now, they don’t seem to have any negative affect. I suspect the gluten protein is long gone from both forms of barley, but this may just be in my case. Everyone responds differently to different amounts of gluten. Plan accordingly.)
Both these teas can be purchased as a box or packet of tea bags, if you don’t want to go all-out on this experiment. Gold Mine and Eden Foods both sell this tea in bags. Either way, I recommend you give them a try. Enjoy!
