CONSULTATION RESOURCES
Click on the links below to view the files. You may not need or want to print every file. Check your personal recommendations notes.
Basic Foods & Cooking Utensils Shopping List
Where to Buy Macrobiotic Foods, Books and Cooking Utensils
How to Learn More: Macrobiotic Courses with David & Cynthia Briscoe
ESSENTIAL RECIPES
Below are a variety of “getting started” recipes. You will eventually need to compliment them with additional recipes from macrobiotic cookbooks and by receiving intruction in basic macrobiotic cooking from an experienced teacher.
WHOLE GRAIN
Pressure-cooked Short Grain Brown Rice
Pressure-cooked Short Grain Brown Rice with Hato Mugi
Soft Whole Grain & Whole Grain-Vegetables (good for breakfast)
Genuine Rice Cream (for use when digestion is very weak and appetite is low)
Millet + Vegetables + Chickpeas Salad
CONDIMENTS FOR SPRINKLING ON TOP OF WHOLE GRAINS
VEGETABLES
Oil- or Water-Sauteed Vegetables
SEA VEGETABLES
SOUPS
Miso Soup with Daikon and Wakame
Miso Soup with Burdock, Daikon and Carrot
Miso Soup: Creamy Onion and Carrot
STEWS
Bean + Barley + Vegetables Stew
Millet + Chickpeas + Vegetables Stew
BEANS, TOFU, TEMPEH
Azuki (Aduki) Beans with Squash and Kombu
(There are additional bean recipes in the “Miscellaneous Recipes” below.)
MISCELLANEOUS RECIPES
WHAT’S FOR BREAKFAST?
HOME REMEDIES (Use only those recommended to you by David Briscoe as indicated in his consultation notes.)
Miscellaneous Macrobiotic Home Remedies
SPECIAL DISHES
SPECIAL DRINKS
EXERCISE, BREATHING, QIGONG and SELF-MASSAGE
READINGS
Physical and Mental Stability: Part 1, Part 2, Part 3, Part 4
The Macrobiotic View of Cancer
Cancer and Macrobiotic Self-Healing
What To Expect When Beginning A Macrobiotic Self-Healing Practice
Why Macrobiotics Recommends Whole Grains
For additional recipes, readings and other useful information visit the How To Get Started section of this web site.
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