Whether you are newly researching the Macrobiotic Diet for yourself or a friend or loved one, and your questions start piling up, where do you go for your important questions???

Some just aren’t in the Macrobiotic Diet books, even though your queries have probably come up time and again.

Just email your question to marsharueff@mac.com, and I will answer you promptly!

Every question is important, and let me assure you, I always say if I could succeed with this Macrobiotic Diet, everyone else can too! No one could have been more overwhelmed in the beginning than I. And I had to learn quickly to help my husband recover from heart disease. Most importantly though, I had to learn this well, and continue being on the leading edge of this ever evolving way of life.

So, where have I learned these answers, if they aren’t even in the macrobiotic diet books?

From macrobiotic cooking classes with very special senior macrobiotic counselors, study at the Kushi Institute, and the six years I conducted the group consultations for Michio Kushi at the Kushi Summer Conferences. All invaluable information. And if your question is new for me, I’ll find you the answer, or the best contact for you to call.

 Besides, my teaching background is the clue for your success. When I taught literature my students never earned below an A? When they did, I just had them rewrite their papers, retake their exams, reread the book, and they learned they could succeed. During the process they came to love the literature they were reading, but mostly they came to like themselves through the process. And the best part, so many more of my students furthered their education at the college level than ever planned in this particular community.

So, how does this apply to Y-O-U, and your experience with the Macrobiotic Diet? Success! That’s the key, your success! Yep, if I could do this, and do it well, Y-O-U

C-A-N! Just email marsharueff@mac.com where it’s all about you!

• Why spend the fee for a macrobiotic cooking class? Or class series?

• Aren’t I better off just to buy the food and the macrobiotic cookbooks?

Oh my gosh, these are important and life-changing questions! I personally know this because Macrobiotic Diet Cooking Classes certainly changed the lives of my dear husband and me ~ in so many, grateful ways!

I always say, learn the most you can about Macrobiotics cooking. Be ready when the occasion arises for you to help someone close to you, or even yourself! You’ll know what to do. ‘specially an Emergency. That is hardly the time to have to learn from scratch! It’s best to have ingredients, the remedy know-how, and the top-notch counselor guiding you through the crisis. Be prepared – that’s the Boy Scouts’ Marching Song!

12 years ago I received a crisis call from someone in the Atlanta Macrobiotic Community. We went over to her home, and heard the diagnosis: a brain tumor. She said, I’ll be fine. I have all the macrobiotic books.

But what I saw scared me; books looking brand new, she had never opened them. When she asked me if it’s okay to use her 2-year old tofu she had kept in the freezer, my heart sank. This was not the time to learn. I offered to cook for her.

The best Macrobiotic counselors and teachers all say your health begins in the kitchen – please take excellent macrobiotic cooking classes!

Our classes offer you something special! You actually get the Mr. Kushi up-to-date-leading-edge-version of the Macrobiotic Diet! The most advanced techniques Michio Kushi re-taught about 7 years ago at the Kushi Institute to a small group of eight. The following week Senior Counselor & Macrobiotic Teacher, Warren Kramer, brought that seminar straight to Atlanta! All the nuances and changes. All the information Mr. Kushi taught because he saw teachers straying from really fine cooking.

Totally awesomse macrobiotic cooking classes right here in Atlanta.

Maybe even worth your taking a trip to Atlanta! Just $45 per class.

And what about learning from the cookbooks! Goodness, Aveline Kushi exclaim, we wrote those books as guides for the teachers. Macrobiotics was never meant to be learned from a book, but shown and shared. Same as we learned from mothers and grandmothers.

Why learn this? To improve your day-to-day health, and heighten benefits from eating according to macrobiotic diet suggestions. I really get a kick out of cooking the best way, and our food tasting delectable. Like when you got the A+ and the extra credit on a paper you worked with all your heart! Remember! So that’s why the fee is worth every penny. All the insights, finding out why suggestions make a difference, learning short cuts, and even where to make the best purchases. Like the tale of the fisherman? Give a man a fish and he’ll have one meal. Teach a man to fish and he has food for all his life. Well, the class fee is for all life, and a chance for a fine life with good health to enjoy your dreams.

Our private classes, one-on-one, provide complete hands-on experiences when our client is well enough: I start cutting a vegetable, and the client completes it. So when this client leaves the class, she’s basically prepared the dish! That’s ideal. 

Group classes differ because of the quantity needed for tasting.  I prep each dish, setting aside sample cuts to show the class with every vegetable used. In this way each participant watches the preparation, even though it’s not a hands-on. There is still great value and understanding, and you will be able to duplicate the process at home!

So we’re going to ask you to buy the books, attend the classes and happily pay a small fee to cook this wonderful way as you create a very rich, healthy and happy life!

Please check out our cooking class schedule on our website, atlantamacrobiotics.com  Our cooking classes are wonderful for beginners as well as long-time macrobiotic diet practitioners to brush up on their techniques! Whichever end of this spectrum we belong, just like the song, always, we can pick ourselves up, brush ourselves off, and start all over again! 

That’s perfectly right! This awesome Nabe Cooking is just as Gluten-Free as you wanna make it! So, if you’ve been enchanted by the idea of vegan or macrobiotic cooking directly at your table, for 2 or company, and gluten-free is a criteria for you – look no more! Call it Nabe, Hooto, Shabu-Shabu, we’ll cover it all, and this class features completely vegan, macrobiotic and gluten-free organic ingredients!

How’s that possible you ask??? Simple. We’ll be cooking Jovial Brown Rice  pasta, and if you prefer no flour choice at all, why, we’ll have freshly hulled brown rice just for you! Next, hmmm, seasoning. Okay, here’s the scoop: in Nabe dining, guess what! You season your own bowl! So, we’ll have 3 different levels of Macrobiotic Mitoku Shoyu for you, or the barley free San-J, and if that’s still not within your guidelines, well, there is Si Salt, Sea Salt, gomashio & shichimi. So, your meal will have a very delicious flavor.

And vegetables galore! They are truly the kingpin of this meal, plus a few garnishes, all within realm of  gluten-free! Goodness, you wouldn’t want me to give away all the loveliness of this divine meal!

So, here’s what one of my clients told me about her Nabe experience: I made Nabe for my parents, and suddenly the room became so quiet, and we were all so relaxed as we were enjoying the meal! Yep, that’s the purpose and result of Nabe Cooking: it relaxes us deep within, creating a lovely warmth inside & out. And isn’t this exactly what each of us can use in our busy, busy lives. Relaxing, feeling warmth in this snowy, cold season. Anyone remember Simon & Garfinkle singing, slow down, you’re moving too fast! Maybe they were going out for Shabu Shabu, Nabe!

We have clients study the Macrobiotic Diet with us from around the world. South Africa, Japan, Holland, Dubais – and we may be in your backyard right here in Georgia! So take advantage of our Macrobiotic Diet Cooking Classes, both private and group classes. Have a busy schedule? We tailor our classes to your availability. This is all about YOU!

As you participate in our Macrobiotic Kitchen, chopping, seeing where to store your ingredients, pots to purchase, healthier cleaning supplies, everything seems easy, do-able!

Visit our list of suggested stores on your way home, and you have instant macro kitchen at your address too!

A bit of background on this teaching I do. Really, I never thought I would teach the Macrobiotic Diet. My purpose in learning it well was to help my husband’s recovery from the painful ordeal of heart surgery. There was so much to learn. I read Macrobiotic Diet books constantly. Fred used to ask me, aren’t you ever going to read anything else?

I treated this study like my graduate studies at University of Michigan. Always my nose in books! When the person teaching the Macrobiotic Diet in Atlanta suddenly stopped teaching, Fred asked me, when are you going to start teaching Macrobiotics because someone has to do it here?And guess what? Fred asked me daily until my original no changed to yes, now I’m ready to try it. I was ready to give back for all we had learned, and for all we were grateful.

So here’s my criteria for your classes: cooking for the Macrobiotic Diet has to be fun, quick, easy and delicious! And we begin your success with Macrobiotics!

Want to meet first before committing to classes? Okay – online, over the phone,  or a meet & greet – we want to make this easy for you. Just email marsharueff@mac.com and we’ll make it happen. Before you know it, you too will be well on your way with this wonderful Macrobiotic Diet!

Sometimes we purposely want ‘em, and sometimes they just show up by mistake, but we all have leftover’s sometimes. No matter how carefully we plan our recipes and cooking quantities. Now the trick, especially when cooking for ultimate health, and even to overcome a serious illness, is learning to deliciously prepare leftovers!

My Creative Use of Leftovers Macrobiotic Cooking Class is certainly an important way to stretch our food budget. Especially buying organic foods, and high quality Macrobiotic products, we want to use all the food we’ve prepared! And when you can truly enjoy your left-over dishes, you have a win-win, all the way!

Some diehards just toss everything out, but I even heard Michio Kushi, time and again in group and private consultations, suggest using leftover grain for breakfast porridge. Even to very ill clients. He had a reason. Maybe several.

First of all, it sure makes breakfast a whole lot easier to handle early in the morning if your grain dish is already welcoming you to your kitchen from it’s trusty little pot! Good morning to you too, dear Grain! Thanks for being here, and making my morning a little quicker! Guess the second reason. Would you believe easier digestibility? Yep, that’s it. As your grain sits overnight on your counter, covered by a bamboo sushi mat, it’s actually beginning to ferment, thus making it even more digestible than when freshly made.

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 noon, 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!

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 678.643.5662, 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 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 meals ready for you!

Title: Macrobiotic Diet Meals are ready for you in Atlanta, Georgia!

Description: Eating Macrobiotic Diet Meals is easy with Marsha Rueff’s fresh daily meals ready to pick up, featuring the finest macrobiotic and organic ingredients!

Of course, the best macrobiotic food you can have is the dishes you learn to make within your own home. Treat yourself to Marsha’s range of macrobiotic cooking classes, especially the private classes that are designed specifically for your health journey. Macrobiotic cooking should be fun, quick, delicious and easy, and that’s my purpose throughout your macrobiotic cooking classes!  And until you have time to learn how to cook using Macrobiotic guidelines, you can already enjoy rebounding health eating Marsha’s balanced meals. Just use them to supplement your cooking as you are learn macrobiotic cooking. 

Macrobiotic home remedy classes are just as about as important as learning miso soup, brown rice, beans and & greens!

LIke the Crown Jewel of Macrobioitics! Why?

Remedies are amazing combinations of macro food already on the shelves of our kitchen.

Only, we might never think of preparing them to help us overcome fever, pain, hasten cuts healing, menstrual cramping, severe bruises from a fall, severe headaches ~ even migraines, jet lag, medicating for a dental appointment, & much more, til you learn it in a class! Then you know! Your confidence level just measured, yep, I can do this! Easily!

Warren Kramer explains taking conventional medicines band-aid a situation. Rather than heal it from within, medicines actually drive the condition deeper into our body. But macrobiotic home remedies hasten healing, and change the direction of our health.

Taking a Home Remedy Class is really special, and important for those new to macrobiotics. You’ll already own great tools – the ingredients in your kitchen! Knowing how to use them right from the start of your practicing macro will step up your ante! So call us for a private class to learn the home remedies, and please watch for our group classes on Home Remedies, as well.

It’s so much better knowing how to make these remedies well, before you, or someone you love, need them. Then, you’ll be the expert. And sure, you’ll follow directions, but you won’t be learning it from scratch at an emergency! It’s so much easier to observe an experiment in a cooking class mode, than on yourself or family member when they are in pain, don’cha think?

And you’ll become the expert offering your 2 cents on The Kind Life Website of Alicia Silverstone, and suddenly everyone knows your preferred home remedy! Alicia refers to Carrot-Daikon Tea, which you’ll be sampling, too!

One of the most important questions is, where do I go for macrobiotic cooking classes?

You want the most experienced teacher you can find. At Atlanta Macrobiotics we are lucky bringing Warren Kramer 4 times a year, and cooking with Warren and his delightful wife, Fatim, during the week they are in Atlanta. So what’s so special about this? If you were here, you’d hear Warren continually telling changes, no we do this. Or we always do it this way, or use a new shoyu or different miso. As Macrobiotics is an ever-evolving diet. Learning these new preparations are significant opportunities to improve your health whether you are new to macrobiotics or long-time macrobiotic practitioner.

We have opened our home serving the Atlanta Macrobiotic Community with Macrobiotic Cooking Classes since 1992!  It’s been our way to give back for all the wonderful benefits Fred and I have felt in our journey towards health. Now it’s your turn! We invite, and welcome to join the many new friends we greet every year, within our well-designed macro kitchen.

 You’ll see the tricks of our trade! Utensils, cooking pots, how and where to store everything for efficiency and time-saving techniques. We receive rave reviews from clients who, on their return home, are able to achieve a great boost to their own macrobiotic practice.

That’s all we’re about! Making this new way of lifestyle and diet easy, fun, quick-er, and delicious for you. Making it accessible. Making it yours. At Atlanta Macrobiotics it’s all about Y-O-U!

Please call for our private cooking class arrangements, group cooking classes. We also invite you to bring a group of friends together, and we’ll do the teachin’! Together we can rock your world forward to a healthier, wonderful journey!

We look forward to schedule special time with you!

Today’s many young vegetarians amaze me. The conscious choice of the young generation who avoid eating meat and meat products grows each year. They are quite informed on their own, and many are choosing this way of eating even though it differs from their parents. They’ve learned some incredible statistics about water and grain being used for growing cattle, that otherwise could be used to feed populations around the world. They’ve noted how vegetarian farming alone could feed the world’s population and avoid the huge water shortage we face in the years ahead.

So it’s good news for those of you beginning a macrobiotic diet, knowing our food selection greatly supports Mother Earth! Macrobiotic food selection prefers organic farming which substantiates soil, rather than depleting our farmland. Avoiding both meat and poultry, we are not perpetuating the problems raising these animals creates for our planet. Using water, land, grains and other foods that could be used throughout the world to feed the starving human population. Not to mention introducing hormones and improper animal food into the food chain.

The Macrobiotic Diet, as you will learn in macrobiotic cooking classes, asks to avoid meat and cheese, poultry and eggs, as well as all soft dairy. Soft dairy, what’s that? Everything made from milk – cow milk. When we think about it, for whom was that milk originally meant? You guessed it. The baby calf, and usually only for 4-6 months, depending on the farmer’s set-up. And if that baby calf’s milk grows a 2000 pound carcass, don’t you think that’s maybe too much for human’s physique?

This means all those soft dairy products in our grocer’s dairy section are really not meant for human consumption: butter, cream cheese, sour cream. And diet versions: margarine, cottage cheese, yoghurt. Even frozen yoghurt. The soft dairy adversely affects us above the waist, creating problems with our lungs, breast, thyroid and throat.  Poultry, meat and cheese affect us around and below the waist creating problems with our pancreas, liver, gall bladder, kidneys, reproductive organs and  intestines.

Why can we say this? Because the soft dairy is more expansive, or more yin, with energy rising upwards, and poultry, meat and cheese have dense, heavy yang energetics with a downward movement. So eliminating these foods on a macrobiotic diet leads us in the direction of health for ourselves as well as helping Mother Earth. A perfect win-win combination!

Title: Macrobiotic diet greatly helps mother earth! Wow! We’re eating green!

Description: Macrobiotic Diet recommendations supports Mother Earth with organic farming, eliminating poultry, meat and dairy products, while improving our health simultaneously! 

April 17, 2013 – ohmygosh! my half-birthday! What a perfect time to think about cooking to Look Fit & Fabulous! Keeping our health, exuberance and ability for the activities we enjoy as well as helping others as we age gracefully! Setting that mid-year purpose – asking are we on-track for all we wish to accomplish this year?

Easily accessible in Dunwoody, near Georgia 400, 10 am – 1 pm, Gluten-Free, Vegan, Macrobiotic! What a terrific combination for a delicious cooking class, very informative about foods nurturing our health. Using ingredients in a whole new way, as well as foods new to your palate! Nurturing our skin, bones, teeth, liver, kidney, brain & even more.

Peek at the menu, then RSVP: marsharueff@mac.com or give me a call 678.643.5662!

Greens Smoothie for Vitality, Grain for Best Complexion – best kept secret ever!, Savory Greens in Citrus Dressing, Black Beans Extravaganza, Mixed Berry Fruit Tart