Macrobiotic food and sugar crave
How to deal with strong sugar cravings, how to steer away from the wrong types of sugar foods, how to naturally satisfy your need for sweet taste?
Everybody needs delicious sweet taste during the day. The sweet is giving your body relaxing energy, uplifting feeling. Sweet is connected with love on the emotional level. But you need to take only good quality sweet sources, that will not harm your body and psychic. Simple refined sugar is very bad for your health/body. It’s not called refined by chance. The reason is, it’s totally exhausted product, where only the simple monosacharids stay in. But monosacharids are not good for your digestion at all. They are very quickly going into the blood and if you are not marathon runner, or very active person, you can’t burn them so fast as they are provided. The end effect is, they put a big load on the digestion organs and if they are not burned, they are transformed to fats and stored in various body parts. Refined sugar wasn’t option in the human history until the recent century. Look more into the human history if you want to live and be healthy. People were eating much more natural sweet products. They were eating simple fruits. Only the seasoned fruits that were around them. They dried them for winter storage and consumption. They couldn’t transport subtropical fruits (bananas, oranges, mangos) to the moderate climate zones. The nature has great logic, just watch and learn from it. The best macrobiotic sweeteners are rice malt, barley malt, rice syrup and sometimes maple syrup. Also all kinds of available fruits, dried or fresh. Because sweet is considered yin in energy, try to make your cakes with the little of yang energy too. It’s good to use kuzu to your desert preparation. Or to cook your fruits with a pinch of quality sea salt.
If you are Earth element in the Nine star ki, the sweet is your dominant taste. You will crave for sweet taste very often. You need to learn few principles to overcome this sweet need everyday. The best method is to prepare sweet vegetable drinks. You can prepare them once in 3 days. Because they can be stored in the fridge for 3 days easily. They are very simple to make, but you’ll be very surprised how sweety they are. They are perfect to drink when you crave for sweet taste. They are made from sweet vegetables like onion, cabbage, carrot, pumpkin, sweet potato, turnip, parsley and many others (try to experiment). Just chop all vegetable to very small pieces and put into the pot with water. The water/vegetable ratio does vary and it’s up to you, but try to start with 1:1 ratio. Don’t add anything else and let it simmer for 30 minutes. Drink your 1-2 cups warm and store the rest into the fridge, after it gets cold. It will last easily for 3 days there.
Another important thing how to prevent you from sweet cravings is daily fresh salads eating. It’s something like fast pickles. It’s just like pickling the vegetables for 30 minutes. Pickling does mean, that you mix chopped vegetables (not only the sweet types for this, you can use anything and even fruits) with salt and press it (the best is with your hands) until the juice comes from the vegetables. Then let it rest for 30 minutes and you can eat this delicious uplifting salad. You can store this salad in the fridge for 3 days too and take a little bit each day. You now see, it’s very easy to cook macrobiotic. You wouldn’t believe it’s very simple to cook macrobiotic pudding like the one on the picture.