Cooking for those with food allergies can be a major
challenge. With so many processed foods containing so many allergens, meal
ideas can become few and far between. In your next hunt for good recipe books
at the local library, take a glace at some macrobiotic cookbooks.
Macrobiotic cooking is more of a way of life than a
collection of recipes. It may be too disciplined for the regular modern family
to follow, but there are certainly some good recipes to be had – all natural and
wholesome, containing vegetables, tofu and more.
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Very simplified, macrobiotic cooking involves high quality,
natural and organic foods. It also involves living and eating harmoniously with
nature and the seasons. Macrobiotic chefs cook according to physical structure,
working to bring our body in harmony with the natural environment.
Flipping through a macrobiotic cookbook may remind you of a
mixture of both Japanese and vegetarian cooking. You will find grains,
vegetables, rice and tofu. The creamy barley soup contains no dairy, as with
the rice balls, sweetened with plums. Strawberry couscous cake has couscous,
apple juice, water, agar-agar flakes and fresh strawberries.
If anything, you can find food combinations you might not
have thought of - scrambled tofu and corn, soft millet and sweet corn, brown
rice salad, millet with squash, kidney beans with miso, and carrot butter. The
recipes are fairly simple and extremely healthy – certainly worth a look if you
have to cook for those with food allergies.
