Recommended reading:
Medicinal cookery - how you can benefit from natures pharmacy by Dale Pinncock
Chinese natural cures - traditional methods for remedy and prevention by By Henry C. Lu
You are What you Eat By Gillian McKeith[ mite be typo in surname here]
+ refer back to previous mentioned books and info you know /own
Background
newbie conditions in short newbies are 'literally working on reserves'
need to rebuild the nutritional or more appropriately the energy deficit
Recall / flashback one time all I was required to do at at home was pick that rolling pin roll out round dough's {chapati/rotli-Indian bread}.Just wasn't able to apply myself - under normal times can do it do in my sleep[so speak] annoying looking back at that.
Under these conditions best always to have good quality nutritional supplements [*concentrated and *micro key features to look for when looking for one to purchase]on stand by, even more so if that means your gonna be eating takeaway or junk food- do enjoy that :)
AND NO good quality nutritional supplements are not 'food / meal replacement'
How to assess your nutritional content
It is more useful to know # 'how' the food works in the body and how it benefits rather than the calorie content#
#each food or culinary herb has an affinity for one more organs/ meridians#
#Some Chinese recipe's use 7 culinary herbs that have affinity for all major organs.# I thought that was, well cool concept; and it tasted good too- considering i cannot make soup to save my life [still don't know haw to make tomato soup]in the above recommended Chinese book.
An example of improvisation
the humbled 'boiled egg'
ingredients:the egg/s
soy beans
and suitable cookware to bring to boil and than simmer for an hour with lid closed
eat /store the extra away in fridge [3 days max]
Didn't have 'soy in bean' form so improvised soy flour it was quite warming [yang] which was weird cuz soy is meant to be of yin nature
which isn't quite right if i got my aryuvedic type right pitta, up till not so long ago kept putting myself down as kapha - only when i met someone training to be aryuvedic practitioner[ in America of all places!come to u.k. for the hols] had too think back at pre-newbie/ medicated state use to be baggy [clothes] u.k. size 10 OK [had to reconsider methods employed when i ever go through 'alternative' change of phase ] gives whole new concept to being hot tempered.
neway back to main point so on an intuitional whim, research through the herbal books, as well as what herbs i had at home exchanged soy bean to 'honeysuckle' herb .the effects were much more to my liking yep cooling :)
As beginners keep things simple
This may be a tall order, but newbies will need to slowly integrate there nutritional needs into the their cuisine:
prerequisite :
Try to make one of the dish of the day orientated towards to one organ and its complimentary organ
Refer to zodiac body part signs as well as theory of 5 elements
The easiest start here would be with the dishes you already make yep time to 'analyse' them
apart from tasting good how the individual ingredients benefit you?
does anything to be added, detracted /changed?
plenty of recipe books on just about any cuisine on this planet so analyse and play and be creative!
there mite be even one type of dish / cooking method that you excel at; that you can improvise in countless ways?
with me its these chili pancakes- I consider it a hit, if mum likes it
no need to be master chef quite yet--- well aware there will or may have been bad times were the ability to engage the brain to to apply cooking skills may not be there.
how ever you can eat , will eat and do eat well
laters fuzz
latest blog note
http://transferflow.blogspot.co.uk/2017/07/the-clock-struck-12-and-regeneration.html