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Standard Diet and Healing Diet

Foods to Eliminate While On Healing Macrobiotic Diet

Healing Macrobiotic Diet-Transition and Discharge Phase

General Suggestions

Methods of Cooking and Food Preparation

Setting Up Your Macrobiotic Kitchen

You Must Have "Good Blood Quality" For Best Health

Common Mistakes In Beginning Macrobiotic Practise

Condiment Guidelines/ Use of Leftovers and Reheating Foods

Maintaining Macrobiotic Practise While Travelling

Transition and Discharge

What's Wrong With Soft Drinks?

Sugar

Dairy Products

Fats

Salt

Caffiene

Setting Up Your Macrobiotic Kitchen

The following section contains a list of suggested cookware you will need in order to have a fully equiped macrobiotic kitchen so that you can easily create delicious, healthy meals. In stocking your kitchen, it is best to have the finest quality cookware such as stainless steel, ceramic, untreated wood, and glass. Often people will have a variety of plastics, including cooking or serving spoons, and storage containers. Macrobiotics suggests a move away from plastics to stainless steel (for cooking and serving spoons) and glass containers (instead of plastic storage containers).

Good quality stainless steel knives will provide the best utility and duarbility. If you do not already have an excellent knife for preparing vegetables, the preferred is the MAC Vegetable knife. Recently, ceramic utiliy and paring knives have come onto the market. While they perform well, please consider that if they are dropped on the floor or used by an unsuspecting person to pry open a lid, they will break.


POTS, PANS, ETC.

Pressure Cooker (Stainless Steel or Enamel)
Tea kettle
Frying Pan (Cast Iron or Stainless Steel) with Lid
Oil Brush
Pots with Heavy Lids
Steamer Basket
Flame Deflector


FOOD PREPARATION DEVICES

Cutting Board
Knives for Vegetable Cutting
Sharpening Rtone or Rod
Graters (Flat ceramic and Stainless Steel)
Vegetable Brush
Suribachi and Pestle
Hand Food Mill
Sushi Mat (Bamboo)
Cheesecloth (Unbleached 100% Cotton)


CONTAINERS

Rice Container
Serving Bowls
Soup Bowls
Tea Cups
Glass Jars for Storage
Shoyu/Soy Sauce Dispenser


STRAINERS, ETC

Colander
Fine Mesh Strainer
Pickle Press
Tea Strainer


SPOONS, ETC

Chopsticks
Mesh Skimmer or Slotted Spoon (for Boiled Salad)
Rice Paddle
Wooden Spoons


Good quality stainless steel knives will provide the best utility and duarbility. If you do not already have an excellent knife for preparing vegetables, the preferred is the MAC Vegetable knife. Recently, ceramic utiliy and paring knives have come onto the market. While they perform well, please consider that if they are dropped on the floor or used by an unsuspecting person to pry open a lid, they will break.