1. Know Your Diet
Following the macrobiotic diet takes discipline. You have to know the foods allowed a lot, a little or even forbidden. For instance, brown rice, wakame, tofu, broccoli and miso are foods allowed a lot. Fish, nuts, refined flour and mushrooms are occasional. Strictly forbidden are animal products, such as eggs, tropical fruits such as pineapple, fruit juice, strong or hot spices and refined sugar. Once you know what foods are permissible, finding seasonal macrobiotic foods will be easier for you.
2. Seasonal Harvest With Year Round Availability
When you are trying to pick seasonal macrobiotic foods, you have to know what is in season in your area. The macrobiotic diet stipulates that foods eaten should grow without the use of chemicals or pesticides. It further states that you should focus on eating local foods. Many foods are available year round in most places because the food is in season some where in the world. Tomatoes, for instance, grow naturally in the summer and broccoli grows in the winter and spring. During the rest of the year, tomatoes and broccoli will be available because they other locations with a different climate or greenhouses ship them in .While eating foods grown in a greenhouse is possible on the macrobiotic diet, it is frowned upon because a greenhouse isn't considered a natural method of growing foods.
3. Ask Around
Because the macrobiotic diet deems that foods eaten, especially produce, should be locally grown and organic, you should find the local farms in your area that specialize in organically grown foods. Once you find an organic farm or a farmer's market that has vendors who sell organically grown foods or locally raised fish and other foods, you can determine what seasonal foods are available. You can ask the farmer or stand owner what foods are seasonal for that time of year. Remember to let the person who you ask know that you would rather the food be naturally grown instead of grown in a greenhouse. The macrobiotic diet states that food must be grown naturally. Greenhouses use artificial heat and light so, while the food is organic, it isn't grown completely naturally.
4. Do it Yourself
Once you are familiar with the permitted foods on a macrobiotic diet, you can cultivate a garden and grow some of the foods on your diet. This is a simple way that you can make sure that the food grows in a permissible fashion. You can go to a local merchant or plant nursery to purchase seeds to plant in your garden or you can buy seedlings certified as organically grown. If you are unsure of what foods you can grow in each season in your area, you can ask one of the nursery employees for advice.
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