Anti-candida meals?

[koru]

I'm getting ready to embark on (yet another) anti-candida diet. I can't seem to wrap my mind around what I can eat, though!? The more I read, the more I think I'll be living on eggs, meat & lettuce with olive oil & lemon juice. What have been your favorite anti-candida meals? I'm hoping to stick with this for a few months (as opposed to a few days, like in the past) so I want to arm myself with good ideas!

[Sayward]

If I could do it as a vegan, you can do it! Here's what my crazy candida diet looked like.

Breakfasts
- hemp protein powder in homemade almond milk (yum! <-- sarcasm), maybe some coconut oil
- a tablespoon of coconut oil right off the spoon (this is a fat so it will give you a sense of feeling ful, plus coconut has strong anti-fungal properties so it's great for fighting yeast)

Lunches
- bigass salad. I mean bigass, like 6 cups shredded romaine, with veggies like tomatoes, cucumber, onion, bell peppers, etc. Topped with nuts or seeds for protein (almond, pecan, walnut, cashew, sunflower seed, sesame seed, pumpkin seed, chia seed, hemp seed, or any combination of these)
- you pretty much have two options for salad dressing, 1) lemon juice + olive oil, or 2) lemon juice alone if there is a nice fatty avocado in the salad! (which for me there almost always was) I also added at least a clove of fresh crushed garlic to every salad, for flavor and 'cause the yeasties hate it
- seed pate, made with soaked sunflower seeds and tahini, etc. check RAW food resources for recipes. This is great as a veggie dip, or rolled up in nori to make veggie sushi, or rolled up in a collard leaf for a raw wrap
- you can make a great all-purpose dip with tahini, apple cider vinegar, garlic, cumin/spices, s+p. This is great as a veggie dip, and I also used it as a dressing on a sort of raw cabbage carrot slaw I made
- wakame! I ate a ton of seaweed salad with cucumber, onion, sesame seeds, sesame oil, lemon juice/acv, and topped with avocado

Dinner
- any of the things I ate for lunch
- grilled asparagus
- grilled eggplant
- oven roasted veggies (I ate this a LOT) like onion, cauliflower, broccoli, peppers, summer squash/zucchini, tossed in garlic and olive oil
- sauteed bitter greens, like kale, mustard, beet greens etc, sauteed in coconut oil with onion and garlic and ginger and drizzled with sesame oil. Add almonds/cashews/sesame seeds for protein
- stir fried veggies in coconut oil, with ginger and garlic

Snacks
- nuts!
- seeds!
- raw veggies!
- kale chips, mmmm so good
- celery with almond butter, also major major yum


Crazy, yes, but IT WORKED!

[koru]

Sayward, you rock! I especially like the tahini dip...I want some right now. I have definitely wondered how vegan's fare with this diet. You've proven it can be done & I give you props, mama.

I'm really nervous about losing too much weight. I'm not underweight but if I lose more than 5-10lbs I will be and I understand this happens often. I did a 2 week colon cleanse last fall in which I ate only fruit until noon & veggies after that....and lost 10lbs during that time!?

Thanks for the great ideas! Anyone else??

[staceychev]

I've pretty much been eating eggs scrambled with kale or collards, onion and garlic, cooked in coconut oil every a.m. Lunch has been either big salad with pre-grilled chicken, or lettuce wraps with chicken, veggies, and hummus. Dinner has been a grilled meat of a sort and a few different veggies. Lots of coconut oil for cooking, nuts for snacking (and the occasional spoonful of almond butter when I'm really desperate!).