Winter Eating
Winter eating plan
This diet has been designed to suite a couple; however it may be used for more people by adjusting the quantity of ingredients used.
The basic concepts of therapeutic eating used in consideration are:
Digestive times
Oriental five phase - winter (seasonal eating)
Acid / alkaline balance
High nutrition
Food combining
Temperature & color
Food alchemy
(specific foods effects)
Variety
Ease of digestion
Minerals for the kidneys & bladder
Winter, according to the Chinese five elements theory, is the time related to water. This relates to the kidney & bladder. Water is the essential medium of your body through which all things pass. It is part of the lymphatic flow, helps eliminate waste, fight off infections, and facilitates the flow of saliva, urine, perspiration, tears, and sexual fluids.
The kidneys filter the blood and keep the blood and body clean and in balance. They filter several thousand quarts of blood daily, extracting and keeping the balance of mineral salts, acids, and wastes. The health of the kidney can be seen in the glow of the skin, hair, and eyes.
The vitality of all body fluids is maintained by the kidney and bladder.
We can help these organs by:
Mineral balances in the diet.
Drinking clean water.
Correct toilet habits.
Balanced fluid intake.
Acid & alkaline balance (20% & 80%) in diet.
Stimulating the meridian points.
Warming foods.
Deep breathing.
Skin brushing.
Scalp massage.
Warm clothing.
Eating organic foods when possible
The groins and the bladder are like magistrates of a region or district,
They store the overflow and the fluid secretions which serve to regulate vaporisation.”
Nei ching
To be excluded from the diet: replace with
Bread mountain bread, pita, lavish
Milk ¼ cup yoghurt, to ¾ water
Yeast
Flour products
Cool drinks
Margarine butter
Cold drinks water
Coffee & tea reduce these or herb tea, citrus & honey
Microwave conventional cooker
Deep fried foods or take-always fruit
Combinations
No potato & meat (protein & starch) no rice & meat
No spaghetti & meat
No grains & fruit
Need 8 glasses of water a day
Don’t have too much water after 5pm
No aluminum pots, pans, cans etc
You are what you eat, think and do.
What you eat builds your physical state,
· So if what you eat is nutritionally deficient, or contaminated by toxic or synthetic chemistry - if this is what you take in - it becomes what you are made off
What you think or how you think it becomes your reality,
· To have a balanced view of life is a balancing act
one must communicate with the aspects of self -
“a balanced state of mind = 80% positive
Nothing in denial
Open communication in the total self
What you do and eat has an impact on you physical body,
Your mind, your financial status,
Your relationships, your energy levels,
Your happiness levels, your ability to see clearly, in fact all aspects of your reality.
Shopping list for 2 people
Sauces: diary:
Teriyaki marinade 1lb butter
Soy sauce 1 yoghurt - natural oyster sauce 2 cream - large
Fish sauce
Olive oil - first cold press 500gms cheese - mature
Apple cider vinegar parmesan cheese
General:
Spiral spaghetti noodles
1 ginger
Tomato puree
2kg onion
2 tins sardines in spring water
1kg carrots
Mustard sauce
10 potatoes (red if poss)
2 sweet potatoes
1 capsicum (red)
1kg tomato
1 tub alfalfa sprouts
1kg mushrooms
2 lge fish fillets
1 cabbage
4 chicken pieces
1 sm zucchini
2 kg rump or porterhouse steak
250gm garlic
750gms round steak
10 lemons
1 veal joint
1 grapefruit
10 oranges
1kg bananas
Health shop lines:
100 gms celery seed (whole)
100 gms evening primrose seed (whole)
1 jar tahini
1 tub honey - untreated - unheated
1 pkt nori - seaweed - sushi sheets
Food list
Seaweed
Sweet potato barley turnip watercress
Spinach green beans
Fresh raw pea’s artichoke
Ripe tomato asparagus
Beetroot Brussels sprouts
Cabbage carrot
Cauliflower celery
Chives corn
Dandelion greens eggplant
Garlic horseradish
Leek lettuce
Mushroom onion
Parsnip potato with skin
Radish chili
Olive apple
Avocado banana
Berries coconut
Dates grapefruit
Lemons orange
Pears pineapple
Pomegranate
Fish - large fish at this time of year
Shark snapper
Abalone crab
Muscles oysters
Swiss cheese ricotta
Cottage cheese yoghurt
Cream butter
Chicken chicken livers
T-bone steak rump
Nuts & seeds almonds
Pecans walnuts
Pine nuts sunflower seeds
Sesame seeds poppy seeds
Herbs
Fennel seed dill seed
Celery seed rosehip
Horsetail alfalfa
Lemon balm fennel greens kelp
Agar agar miso
Tofu ginger
Fenugreek
Sauces
Soy, teriyaki, oyster sauce fresh untreated honey (unheated)
On rising
It is essential to start the digestive system gently first thing on rising. A bit like warming up a car first thing in the morning.
Prepare a warm drink of:
1. Lemon & honey or
2. Orange & honey or
3. Grapefruit & honey or
4. Herbal tea & honey or
5. Orange juice freshly juiced
6. Prune juice
Hot citrus
Slice ½ a citrus in ½ cm rings, place in cup,
Juice the other half, pour in cup,
Add honey to suite your taste,
Pour on hot water, let stand for a minute.
Take 20 ml of apple cider vinegar.
If you are taking slippery elm powder, take it now.
Drink citrus drink.
Take herbal tonic now if you have one.
Take a small whole garlic (swallow) - to lubricate the bowel.
Breakfast
Banana supreme
1-2 bananas
1 or 2 teaspoons of honey
1 desert spoon sunflower seeds
1 teaspoon butter
Small amount of grated ginger.
Gently heat butter in frypan and add sunflower seeds and grated ginger. When brown add honey to pan. Heat, pour
