put something salty in the middle of a ball of rice like an olive; you could add other bits of flavorful vegetables,green onions,carrots,radishes etc and wrap the whole thing in the nori seaveg sheets (moisten the edges of the seaveg to seal it closed about the rice); make some in the morning from your batch of rice and they stay good all day.

also I recommend applying macrobiotics as an exercise in not being on the outer fringes of foodistness. drink some milk, have a kosher critter sandwich on a regular basis and iodine, triple antibiotics on your scrapes.

Macrobiotic is a kind of studied balance of foodstuffs it is not necessarily just about grains, beans and vegetables but learning to balance all kinds of foods.

Over the years for example I’ve seen a few smiling,energetic macros with pretty bad teeth because they became so stubbornly attached to the ‘diet’ and the ‘life-style’ that they couldn’t consider that they were missing some essential nutrients; despite the fact that it is amazing the foods that seem so extroadinary that one does discover on that regime.

You don’t have to eat with chopsticks or gradually turn into
an Oriental American. There are Americanized macro recipies including the traditional kosher influenced macrobiotic recipies as you know.

You don’t have to embrace the ‘macro lifestyle’ to benefit from the healthy diet ideas. Though it has appealing facets to it, is interesting, and has some wisdom worth considering ; you can learn from those teachings and integrate essentials into your identity and your own accumulated wisdom.

I say this because of what I’ve seen over the years, my own experience and for the sake of remembering the value
of restraint when embracing a different, different realm and remembering that what you were taught before isn’t nothing.

Hows that for something from a cyber-bubbe ?

avi