This page will continue to be updated as I share more of my Macrobiotic recipes, health tips, facts, ect.

The Macrobiotic way of eating is something that has always intrigued me. I have recieved alot of my informationa and inspiration on the subject from a book titled, The Macrobiotic Path To Total Health.

Macrobiotic Health Facts & Recipes:

Macrobiotics is a simple, elegant, and delicious way of eating…authorities and followers of macrobiotics believe that almost every human ailment from the common cold to cancer can be helped, and often cured, by balancing the flow of engery inside us.
-Macrobiotic Path to To Total Health by Michio Kushi and Alex Jack

MyVeryFirstKitchen’s Warming and Healing Miso Soup Recipe

Kombu: sea veggie
- Large, thick, dark green member of the kelp family
- Traditionally it is used to make dashi, which is a broth used as a stock for soup and noodle dishes
- Strengthens the blood, discharges toxins from the body, can be used externally as a compress

Wakame: Sea Veggie
- Slender light plant that turns a beautiful transluscent green when cooked
- Customarily added to miso soup
- Rich in protein, iron, calcium, iodine, vitamin A, B vitamins, and other nutrients
- Helps protect against high blood pressure, prevent tumors and safe guard against infection

Miso:
- Principal seasoning in macrobiotic way of eating
- Paste made from fermented soybeans, sea salt and usually fermented barley or rice
- It gives a strong energy and contains enzymes that facilitate digestion and strengthen blood quality
- One of the principal foods taken to restore the body to balance and maintain basic health
- Helps prevent heart disease, relieve breast cancer and other malignancies, and treat radiation sickness
- Used externally as a plaster for cuts and burns

Shoyu:
- Principal seasoning in macrobiotic ways of eating
- It is naturally fermented soy sauce and is used as seasoning for soups, noodles, stir fries and other dishes
- It is made from a mixture of soybeans, wheat, sea salt and water that has been fermented and aged in cedar vats
- Aids in digesting grains and vegetables
- Rich in protein, minerals and B vitamins
- Used in home remedies to strengthen the blood, relieve fatigue and neutralized over acidity

*all of these products are available in your local health food store, Asian grocery or Whole Foods. I have also linked the products to MVFK’s amazon store in case you are not able to find them. Also, this helps you get a look at the food item so you know what it looks like in the store! Miso paste will be in the deli case in your grocery where tofu, tempeh, kelp noodles, ect are sold.