Atlanta Macrobiotics

Macrobiotic Meals in Atlanta is very easy! Freshly cooked meals prepared daily, ready for you, using the highest quality macrobiotic and organic ingredients, centrally located in Dunwoody, Georgia, near GA 400. Usually ready by 10:30 AM, each meal contains a home-made soup, grain dish and several vegetable dishes, including many amazing macrobiotic specialty dishes, all designed to increase your health and energy level! Join our client list who say now these are their favorite foods!

 So get ready to feel and look your best eating well. Increase your energy, shed those extra pounds, start your journey in the direction of health. The great attribute about the Macrobiotic Diet is its being based on yin and yang, and energetics – a diet about how it makes you feel when you eat this food. What is your energy like?

Call 770 . 396 . 9413, order some meals, and see how wonderfully you can begin to feel again!

 Visiting Atlanta from out of town? We often have clients traveling from other cities, and even from abroad, who wish to stay with their macrobiotic diet. We are ready to accommodate you in every way, and greatly look forward to your requests.

Visit Marsha Rueff at www.atlantamacrobiotics.com to learn more about these delicious macrobiotic diet meals ready for you!

Let me tell you about our daughter Karyn. When our granddaughter, Brittany, was 18 months old, Karyn called me saying, I just gave Brittany her first macrobiotic cooking lesson! She cut the vegetables, stirred the food, measured the water, added the rice, and made gomashio!

Music to my ears. With all the love we have for our children and grandchildren, it’s so gratifying to know they are choosing healthy foods and lifestyle. And even teaching the next generation when kids adore playing in the kitchen with mommy! When it’s fun!

Karyn’s pantry and fridge contains all the foods on a macrobiotic diet, plus some traditional items for company. And her children know the difference. When Brittany was about 2 she declared in a children’s music group her favorite food was TOFU! All the other children claimed french fries, chicken wings or pizza. Macrobiotic food, as you learn in macrobiotic cooking classes, is very tasty, and kids love that genuine taste and aroma. It smells so good is a familiar comment in a macrobiotic kitchen.

Brittany and her sister Alyssa often participate in meal preparation, and even help select recipes, browsing macrobiotic cookbooks for some new, yummy dish. They have taken many Whole Foods cooking classes for kids, even the week-long summer camp. They assisted in these classes as well. At age 10 Brittany and Alyssa have each assisted during Warren Kramer’s cooking classes at our home, truly contributing. Kids love to help, and teaching them cooking skills while they are young and helping is fun for them is the key!

So what macrobiotic dishes are perfect kid-starters? Scrambled tofu - you get to scrunch up the tofu in your hands, and chop the veggies. Mochi waffles with Suzanne’s Maple Rice Syrup. Tempeh and seitan, deep-fried! Pasta salads with pickles and olives, blanched veggies, and yummy dressing. Kanten fruit desserts blended into a strawberry mousse or orange soufflé. Creamy pureed vegetable soups without the cream. Nori rolls with almond butter, cucumbers and whatever else your kids like. Fried fish, hummus dip and crunchy veggies. Tempura everything! Parsley’s the best, broccoli and other greens, even nori rolls. Kids love stirring the batters, and let them be inventive! Even if you are on a stricter diet, they might add coconut or healthy rice crispies to roll the battered seitan and what a treat you have!

You’ll want to buy the tiny iwachu iron pot for the deep frying, and sometimes we just keep ours on the stove. You can order this pot from Essene in Philadelphia by calling:  215 . 922 . 1146.  Sometimes you may have to describe the pot: it’s round with an iron handle, and wood lid, costing approximately $49 plus shipping. You definitely want the small size which allows you to use less oil.

Kid’s school lunches! Let ‘em look like everyone else. Sandwich, fruit, noodles, hummus and blanched veg, nori roll if they are comfortable with it. With all the sushi and nori rolls prepared at the grocers today, this macrobiotic favorite way of carrying rice and veggies might be the in thing.  And when they get home have a hearty dish to tide them over for dinner. Leftover warm soup & steamed sourdough bread may be very welcome on a cold afternoon. Or if you drive them directly to an activity, bring a favorite dish in the car. Pasta and sauce, fried tofu, warm apple juice, fried seitan, thermos of warm bancha tea. Let them request!

And making meals easier for your new attendees! Sometimes your youngsters get inquistive, asking what’s for dinner? I always just answer dinner. Especially if your kids show any resistance. Learn their favorites, and include them often!

Relax, have fun with the macrobiotic foods and let your kids have a fun ride on your new regime for health. Everyone benefits in the long run, and what wonderful peace of mind, knowing your children have the best quality food, and healthy horizons ahead! That’s Everything!

Great macrobiotic books for families with kids:

The Macrobiotic Community Cookbook, by Andrea Bliss Lerman features kids favorites made in the macrobiotic cooking style: pizza, stoganoff, lasagne, burrito, millet-cauliflower mashed potatoes that make perfect potato pancakes, without any potatoes at all. And lots more.

 Sweet and Natural, by Meredith McCarty features 120 desserts without sugar, eggs, butter, cream and yeast. Pies, tarts, cakes, cookies – everyone delights in these recipes.

 Grains and Greens from the Deep Blue Sea, by Mark Hanna and Sandy Purkel features recipes from the Macrobiotic Cruise. Each one becomes your new favorite! So get ready to try them all! The Millet Croquets taste just like tuna fish, and the tartar sauce is amazing! The desserts are wow! Can this really be good for us! Yes indeedy!

 Cooklets by Melanie Waxman. All Melanie’s recipes are terrific, and you might want to get the complete bound issue. Having seven children of her own, Melanie has excellent recipes for children in Cooking for Children section, and throughout all the cooklets! Try the Soba Knots in Oodles of Noodles! With 7 children of her own, Melanie is the expert  keeping kids interested in their health eats!

Cooking the Whole Foods Way, by Christina Pirello. Delish cuisine, kids will enjoy & request their favorites!

Cook Your Food to the Life You Want, by Christina Pirello. Christina Pirello’s recipe books are quite excellent, as she has taken traditional European recipes and perfected the macrobiotic conversion for you.  Amazing variety to delight all your family!

You’re itinerary‘s perfection, car, hotel, entertainment, sight-seeing, including plenty of local color. But are you macro-ready? Am I what? Yep, are you prepared to eat well and within macrobiotic diet recommendations while away from your macrobiotic kitchen?

There are a few parts to this puzzle. It’s do-able, easy, and well worth it. Why? Because you’ll feel 100% better on your travels, and keep your direction of health at the same time. Avoid jet lag, sleep well, and be up to all the sightseeing and visiting you’ve planned. We actually give a complete macrobiotic cooking class on this subject. Here are a few pointers.

Take your most important macrobiotic items with you! Lino Stanchich, our first macrobiotic counselor, use to say always be prepared. You never know what items will be difficult to find when you are away.

This was before the present restrictions on flying. We use to take more with us, in the original bottles and jars. We once packed a suitcase with 84 pounds of just our food when visiting Fred’s brother in Monaco. No more. Car trips afford luxurious space so we pack the minimum size of all our macrobiotic essentials: shoyu, ume plum, miso, kuzu, si salt, etc. But on the plane we strictly travel with carry-on luggage. We may take a small eye dropper bottle of shoyu to insure we have the best quality, and teeny jars of miso and ume plum as well. The Container Store sells these for minimal charge. 

Google and email ahead to your destination to find local health stores, and contact them for products are availability. If staying in a facility permitting cooking – a suite hotel perhaps, or condo, you’re in like flint. Purchase your organic or bio veggies, prepare breakfast, and maybe rice balls to add to your lunch. Then a divine dinner at a special restaurant – you’re on vacation!

Use this easy way to cook in a thermos. Even on an airplane, you can carry an empty open wide-mouth thermos. Measure your grain in 1 cup portions: brown rice, quinoa, bulghur and yes, go ahead add the pinch of si salt. Put this measurement into a small wax paper bag, fold, and slide these into a plastic baggie. Brown rice -short, medium and long - should be rinsed, roasted til dry, and let cool before bagging. The other mentioned grains can be measured out without roasting.

So it’s now as easy as boiling water to make your grain. Just bring 1 1/2 cups water to boil, place the grain the thermos, pour in the water, and tomorrow morning you have delicious grain. We actually take 2 thermos with us: one for breakfast, and one for lunch.

Enjoy breakfast on your balcony, or join others in the bed and breakfast area, and you’re off and running for the day! No guilt about keeping a great macrobiotic regime! And the best benefit – you’re tiptop condition for the demands of travel!

Remember, what a meal is! Warren Kramer teaches a meal is a grain or grain product and a vegetable! Carrying kukicha tea bags with you is a great idea to end your meal. A bit us of wild caught fish is very nice, and often you can enjoy the local specialty as well, avoiding farm-raised fish.

What about ordering, when you don’t speak the language! Research the macrobiotic avoid words before you travel, and carry these with you on a typed, laminated wallet-size card. Duplicate this list to hand the person taking your order, and no worries about cheese, butter, milk being added to your cuisine! Relax and enjoy the ambiance. Bon voyage ! !

In every macrobiotic cooking class when kids are still within the home, my clients ask, what do I feed my children? It’s a huge concern. Young women diagnosed with breast and other cancers, and researching alternative cancer treatments, invariably worry this dilemma. Realizing they want to change their eating, but not wanting to make waves within their home. Not wanting to impose their needs on their husband and not wanting to worry their children or make any noticeable fuss at home. In fact, Warren Kramer, our Senior Macrobiotic Counselor says one of the reasons young mothers get sick, and often develop breast cancer is they don’t take the time to take care of themselves; they are so busy taking care of everyone else.

I always encourage my clients to cook one way. Let the family eat macro too. Kids adore this food. It’s nothing new under the sun. The macrobiotic diet goes way back to eating a more natural, common sense cooking style, like our great, great, great grandparents. Before packaged food. Before frozen foods. Before microwave and health bars. True food, cooked well, but not overcooked. Actually it’s exquisitely prepared cuisine.

Have you ever heard the person wearing the apron strings in the home controls the health of the family? That’s the ticket! While your children are still living at home, you get the perfect chance to influence and improve their health. What better gift for your spouse and children than to effectuate the way they eat. You’ll get to influence your kids’ food choices for all the times in their lives away from home –  school, camp, college, and restaurants just to name a few.

As you experience macrobiotic diet benefits firsthand, you will learn even more reasons to feed your family the same balanced meals you eat. Letting your kids assist you in the kitchen truly lets them participate in your healing process in a very personal and special way. They will feel better too. Skin problems, fatigue, easier concentration at school, improved athletic performance are just a few of the benefits they will enjoy right away. I always say, as you see them improve, you’ll know you are on the right track too.

And your spouse. Well, some of my clients say, my husband is wonderful and supportive, but he’s a meat and potato man. Okay, but he’s your biggest cheerleader too, your partner, so invite him to participate. When you set up your kitchen, set up two complete workstations: 2 wood cutting boards and 2 chef’s knives. And double some of the other kitchen gadgets you learn to use in our macrobiotic cooking classes. And voila, you immediately have a partner in the kitchen! What I call romancing the stone after Michael Douglas’s films. Our CD’s are nearby, and we always have a favorite song we are dancing to. Kids enjoy this too. I always say our kitchen is really a wonderful dance floor that just happens to have a stove in the middle of it!

Just have a taste, or try this, honey, it’s so delicious. New phrases for introducing dishes to your family. One of my clients had a everyone has to taste everything on the plate rule. When they did, a quarter went into this huge jar. When the jar filled they went on a trip somewhere. Or did something special. You should have heard her sons urging each other to try the food! And some 14 years later her health has improved, and all three sons & their wives eat very healthy. And their own children. You can snowball this very same effect.

What a wonderful legacy to give your family! I think it’s the best information we’ve given our own children, and set the pace for future generations. And it’s been very empowering when health issues arise to be able to reach for The Macrobiotic Path to Total Health, by Michio Kushi and Alex Jack, and tell our daughters what page a specific home remedy is on. If a situation is new to me, I suggest a call to Warren Kramer for his advice. Because we’ve established that direct tie with our children and Warren too.  I’ve gotta say strengthening the bond with your kids & your Macrobiotic Counselor has to be one of the most satisfying moments of all! And one of the greatest benefits of our being on a Macrobiotic Diet! Getting our kids on it too! This is the one of the greatest gifts you can give your children: their ability to choose a healthy lifestyle.

Books with wonderful recipes for families

• The Macrobiotic Path to Total Health, Michio Kushi and Alex Jack
• Sweet and Natural, Meredith McCarthy
• The Macrobiotic Community Cookbook, Andre Bliss Lerman
  
• Grains and Greens from the Deep Blue Sea, Mark Hanna & Sandy Pukel

Just a note about stomach reduction surgery.

This surgery is a very drastic and permanent measure for what very well may be a temporary and reversible situation. The people I personally know who have had this surgery were originally told it could be reversed whenever they would elect to do so, only to later find out they were not candidates for that reverse. The ramifications are huge in terms of disturbing the digestive enzymes and naturally phases of digestion. This surgery not only affects the stomach, but every organ of the body related to digestion and waste removal: including the liver, pancreas, bladder, kidney and spleen. 

Recently we met a client diagnosed with severe diabetes and considering stomach reduction surgery. Once he learned how easy it is for a person’s bloodstream to alkaline by changing his diet, he changed his tune. We explained how eating foods recommended on the macrobiotic diet allows the pancreas/blood sugar to function with normalcy once again. And as his eating amounts leveled, he would have every opportunity to heal. He actually began to feel improvements within 2 days, and is very grateful for his choosing Macrobiotics over surgery. Within macrobiotic guidelines it’s easy to reach optimum weight levels once enjoyed around age 18, with very generous portions of food, and very satisfying meals.

Please contact us for more information, and learn how to streamline the Macrobiotic Diet for your specific health situation. We really want to help you succeed and feel just wonderful again, and very soon! We have such amazing recovery stories of our clients who had very severe diabetes, and other complications, who came off all medication and are doing very well, all within a very short time-frame. Please email marsharueff@mac.com for cooking classes, consultations, programs in the Atlanta, Georgia area.

Reading material: The Macrobiotic Path to Total Health, Michio Kushi and Alex Jack

Summertime, and travel to other time zones may be on your agenda! So how do you make the most of your trip, and eliminate the jet lag issue, truly enjoying each and every moment of your stay? Especially if you’re like me, with so much to do before leaving, it’s hard to get to bed on time that final departure week.

On a Macrobiotic Diet it’s so easy! Three simple, magical words: ume sho kuzu!

What’s that? A very soothing drink, easily made, in about 7 minutes. Three ingredients plus water: umeboshi plum, shoyu – a special soy sauce, and kuzu – the harvested root of the kudzu plant. Yes, the very plant that grows throughout the southern states, covering huge trees along the highways. Imagine the strength of that hardy plant’s root, harvested for this drink, and coating your intestinal walls. No wonder this drink boosts our immunity! We love teaching this in macrobiotic cooking class because it is helpful for so many health conditions.

• Just dissolve 1 teaspoon of kuzu in 1 cup cold spring or filtered water.
• Bring to a boil, stirring continually to avoid lumping.
• Add one-third umeboshi plum
• Once the water becomes transparent, add 6 drops shoyu.

Drink while hot. Enjoy this drink daily two days before the trip, and the day of travel, and if possible the following two days. You may also repeat for your return home.

 Especially at this present time with concern about the swine flu and travel, the ume-sho-kuzu drink becomes a no-brainer for travel because it is considered the Macrobiotic Diet Antibiotic!

 *Top quality ingredients can be ordered from Natural Import Company at 800 . 324 . 1878

• 89500            Sakurazawa Shoyu 5 oz.                              
• 89333            Mitoku Umeboshi Plum 6 oz                               
• 89408            Mitoku Kuzu 3 oz                                          

For more information on benefits of Ume Sho Kuzu, and macrobiotic cooking classes, please check our website:

www.atlantamacrobiotics.com or email: marsharueff@mac.com

Books: The Macrobiotic Path to Total Health, Michio Kushi and Alex Jack    See the section on Home Remedies

Warren Kramer internationally-known Senior Macrobiotic Counselor will be in Atlanta July 15-20, 2009. Teacher for the Kushi Institute, Strengthening Health Institute, the Macrobiotic Cruise, and New England Macrobiotic Center, Warren brings a wealth of knowledge gained from the eleven years he served as Michio Kushi’s private assistant, as well as over 25 years counseling throughout the world.

In Atlanta Warren will be giving private consultations, macrobiotic cooking classes, and evening  lectures in the Dunwoody area. Attend all events & have a private consultation, and you will receive 15% savings on lecture and cookings classes Thursday through Sunday.

Please contact Marsha Rueff to reserve consultation time with Warren and your choice of venues  at marsharueff@mac.com .

Phone contact: 678 . 643 . 5662 or 770 . 396 . 9413.

For Warren’s bio please visit www.macrobioticsnewengland.com

Saturday, July 18, at 5:00 PM please join us for a Macrobiotic Lecture, Application of the Five Transformations, How to Discharge Sweets & Dairy, following the Wrap it Up! Awesome Sandwiches & Wraps Macrobiotic Cooking Class at  The Rueff Home, 1130 Trailridge Lane, Dunwoody, Georgia 30338

 We learn studying macrobiotics how the effects of food we’ve eaten in the past does not just exit our bodies when we stop eating it. We all wish this were the case! Clients often say, Oh, I haven’t eaten cheese for over a year, how can you think it is affecting the arthritis in my knees? So, what do we do to expedite a change in our health, and reap the benefits of eating on a Macrobiotic Diet?

Just wait til you hear Warren’s lecture, How to Discharge Sweets & Dairy Applying the Five Transformations. His information will absolutely astound you! Applying macrobiotic principles, makes so much sense, and as Warren explains the energetics of the food, everything falls into place. Learning how to draw the effects of food out of your body gives you such freedom to restore your health, melt tumors, look and feel younger, and increase your energy tremendously. And you’ll understand the why of it all. I always introduce Warren as our why man – because he takes the time to explain and chart the rudimentary basis of this structure. The yin and yang of it all will surely play into this too!

 And you can’t even begin to imagine how much better you will feel! Food tastes more delish than ever before! Yes, our taste buds change when we stop sugar and dairy. We develop a gourmet taste for real food and some items we’ve never before enjoyed. Macrobiotic cuisine isn’t bland or tasteless, but flavorful and delicious. We  still satisfy our sweet tooth using Suzanne’s Genmai Brown Rice Syrup and Barley Malt and sweet vegetables. You might even easily slim down in the process. One thing is for sure! There is almost no favorite dish you will have to do without. It’s surely been recreated in a macrobiotic recipe version to please your palate!

 Warren will be suggesting actual dishes, and some home remedies, special drinks – certain combinations of foods, and your notes will reflect unique properties of these dishes.You will find this class very beneficial as Warren introduces you to a whole new level of macrobiotic cooking, broadening your understanding of the macrobiotic lifestyle.

Recommended cookbook: Sweet & Natural, by Meredith McCarty for 120 desserts without sugar, eggs, yeast, butter

Warren Kramer internationally-known Senior Macrobiotic Counselor will be in Atlanta July 15-20, 2009. Teacher for the Kushi Institute, Strengthening Health Institute, the Macrobiotic Cruise, and New England Macrobiotic Center, Warren brings a wealth of knowledge gained from the eleven years he served as Michio Kushi’s private assistant, as well as over 25 years counseling throughout the world.

In Atlanta Warren will be giving private consultations, macrobiotic cooking classes, and evening  lectures in the Dunwoody area. Attend all events & have a private consultation, and you will receive 15% savings on lecture and cookings classes Thursday through Sunday.

Please contact Marsha Rueff to reserve consultation time with Warren and your choice of venues  at marsharueff@mac.com .

Phone contact: 678 . 643 . 5662 or 770 . 396 . 9413.

For Warren’s bio please visit www.macrobioticsnewengland.com

Saturday afternoon, July 18, please join us for a macrobiotic cooking class, Wrap it Up! Awesome Sandwiches & Wraps! July 18, 1-4 pm The Rueff Home, 1130 Trailridge Lane, Dunwoody, Georgia 30338

Everyone adores sandwiches, and Warren has his favorites, so do we all. Get ready to sample some new varieties, and discover this wonderful new repertoire to delight your palate as well as everyone in your world! Perfect for summer, and quick for taking food-on-the-go! A great idea for travel too. Slip your favorite wrap into a wax paper bag, and this in turn into a plastic one – look at Whole Foods for the non-petroleum plastic baggies as well as the wax paper ones too! And you are well on your way! Especially great for overseas flights.

Why else are sandwiches and wraps great to learn in a macrobiotic cooking class? Two  simple words: cravings and satisfying! That’s right, even following a macrobiotic diet we experience cravings for foods, and having a sandwich or wrap alternative proves very satisfying, and just nips that craving in the bud.

And they don’t have to be loaded with mayonnaise, ketchup and bright yellow mustard. You will learn so many variations on this theme as this class opens lotsa possibilities for you. Get ready for a whole new take on your macrobiotic diet! And you’ll still get to enjoy homemade pickles and Santa Barbara olives! Perhaps this new quality is even better than you ever imagined! Yes, Warren will be teaching everybody’s favorite fun food!

 Right after we’ve finished tasting the goodies of this fun macrobiotic cooking class Warren’s lecture, How to Discharge Sweets & Dairy applying the 5 Transformations will absolutely astound you! A perfect afternoon!

Warren Kramer internationally-known Senior Macrobiotic Counselor will be in Atlanta July 15-20, 2009. Teacher for the Kushi Institute, Strengthening Health Institute, the Macrobiotic Cruise, and New England Macrobiotic Center, Warren brings a wealth of knowledge gained from the eleven years he served as Michio Kushi’s private assistant, as well as over 25 years counseling throughout the world.

In Atlanta Warren will be giving private consultations, macrobiotic cooking classes, and evening  lectures in the Dunwoody area. Attend all events & have a private consultation, and you will receive 15% savings on lecture and cookings classes Thursday through Sunday.

Please contact Marsha Rueff to reserve consultation time with Warren and your choice of venues  at marsharueff@mac.com .

Phone contact: 678 . 643 . 5662 or 770 . 396 . 9413.

For Warren’s bio please visit www.macrobioticsnewengland.com

Friday July 17, please join us for a special evening’s lecture, Menu Planning Essentials, July 17, 7:30-9 pm The Rueff Home, 1130 Trailridge Lane, Dunwoody, Georgia 30338

Always participants request this menu-planning class every time Warren visits. It truly is one of the most important lectures. Why? Because all the theory from macrobiotic books has to actually happen in the kitchen. In YOUR kitchen, to be exact. And Warren’s Menu Planning Class is key! Based on his years of working with Michio Kushi and Denny Waxman, Warren guides us step by step using the principles of yin and yang according to Macrobiotic guidelines. Involving our input in the process. Yes, this is an interactive lecture.

See it this way: we’re implementing a new way of eating, and especially considering we have health concerns to correct, eating well-planned meals becomes essential. The hit-or-miss-grab-whatever-is-ready-to-gulp-down when we come home from work is history. We can do better than being too famished and tired to cook. Now we want a welcoming meal, featuring the best food choices. Because now we know better. And now we are using macrobiotic principles to enhance our health and well-being. You see, macrobiotics is a way of eating based on the energetics of food. That is to say, it’s based on how the foods make us feel after we eat, and what kind of energy we have the next day, too. What kind of energy the food charges our bodies with. Way different than a calorie or carb or protein based diet like most of the new-fad diets circulating the last few years, don’t you think?

Your macrobiotic diet is very special, and Warren’s presentation of developing macrobiotic menus for you and your loved ones is truly an art, and it’s very easy to adapt. From this plan you will learn to shop for your week. Even how to substitute foods according to the season and what’s available organic. Plus you reap the benefits of being with this group and hearing their keen experiences cooking macrobiotic diet. Warren actually plans with the group a whole weeks worth of meals! Yep, we do it together, so turn your thinking cap on. You’re going to experience where to start when planning a meal, and the logical steps from there. It’s way different than you may think, much easier, and funner too!