As is oft repeated here at AGAD, macrobiotic literally means “big life”. It doesn’t mean “big food” or “big diet” or “large mealplan”. The “biotic” nature of macrobiotics - the life part of it - often gets overlooked. We eat well so that we feel well so that we can live well. I don’t think it’s stretching too much to understand that when you eat macrobiotically you also should live macrobiotically. But what does that mean?
There are some very warm fuzzy principals that one thinks of in living the “big life”: living joyfully, fostering creativity, and doing so while respecting the earth and living in harmony with her rhtym. But what about the more practical side — like where and how do we spend our precious “golden eggs” as Jake refers to them — our dollars?
We end up spending a lot of our monthly budget at our co-op. Generally, I feel really good about the purchases we make there — we are supporting a local business that supports the kinds of foods and farmers that we would like to see more of in the coming years. Read the rest of this entry »
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