The Changing Seasons Macrobiotic Cookbook

This is a wonderful resource for everyday, practical meals to feed family and friends as well as nourish your own soul. Great recipes and menu-planning. A great complement to Practically Macrobiotic.

As a newcomer to macrobiotics, I absolutely loved this book and have used it every day since I bought it. It outlines easy, quick basic recipes that anyone can make - most of which involve few basic ingredients. Everything down to how to make basic brown rice is in here. I am so blessed I happened to get this book in the beginning. After now having read some of the other macrobiotic books, I realize I might have been frustrated by the foreign ingredients and complicated recipes and been turned off from macrobiotics otherwise. One thing I did when I bought this book (as I was just slowly learning macro foods and starting to introduce them to my cupboards) is sift through the book and start noting common themes of ingredients. After identifying and buying some of the "base" products identified, I was able to make several different recipes. These recipes make up my diet today and every day. I would recommend this book to anyone, especially beginners like me.

This is a very practical book that gives recipes for a realistic macrobiotic regime, linked to the seasons. When you follow this diet, you feel very good.The book lacks a discussion, however, about how to fine-tune the diet to signs or symptoms you may experience in your body or mindset. I think anyone seriously following a macrobiotic diet should use this book in conjunction with The Self Healing Cookbook by Kristina Turner. Together they give you a full picture of herbal dietary therapy and how it can be utilized on a daily basis. Together they give you enough useful recipes to keep yourself happy and your tastebuds from getting bored.

This cookbook shows how to use macrobiotic foods in many appetizing meals. It is a wonderful way to envision a meal plan for a whole day, even a whole week for each season of the year. It offers many recipes that are different and shows how to incorporate items that one would not usually eat unless on a macrobiotic diet. The recipes are well explained and are easy to follow.