Macrobiotic Life

As for the initial question, what to take for intensive hiking trips and backpacking, I would consider these:

• roasted seeds (I prefere sesame, but can be others – pumpkin, sunflower, flax) mixed with barley malt (rice malt, sirups)
• tahini mixed with malts
• white rice (white pastas) cooked with oil – white flour product sugars go very fast into the blood
• home prepared bread from flour, salt, barley malt, raizines, seeds, sourdough (I prefer steamed over baked)
• any high-sweet baked cookies
• when burning really lot of energy I am not afraid to eat honey and maple syrup also
• fruits
• good quality beer (no white sugar)

These are my fast energy boosters on hike trips
Ofcourse higher amount of cooked beans are always good throughout a day.
Fish is also great.

“For breakfast she will have a vegetable soup along with either fresh vegetables or fruits or their juices, all of which are recommended within the macrobiotic diet she is known to embrace. Before lunch, she will go for a session of Pilates before eating more macrobiotic foods, which include lots of vegetables and protein-rich dishes made from tofu, seeds, bean sprouts.”

And then her actual workout begins, for two or three more hours, Riches says, including swimming, biking and martial arts.

Oh, to be like Madge at 50