How to make your recipes suitable for the candida diet

You have been collecting recipes for years and now you find that you have candida overgrowth and have to eliminate yeast from your diet. A cursory search in your recipe archive and all those good cookbooks you’ve had for years makes you realize how many foods contain yeast. Not just yeast, but foods that quickly turn to sugar in the stomach and feed the yeast that’s already there what they love.

This makes carbohydrate-rich foods a problem. So, there goes your favorite beef stew recipe with all that corn, potatoes, and carrots! Not to mention all that pasta made with refined white flour.

The first step in rewriting your recipes to aid in your candida diet is to become familiar with what foods to eat to eliminate excess yeast in your system, and what foods to avoid.

Here is the short list of what to avoid:

  • Bread products
  • Alcohol
  • Sugar, high fructose corn syrup
  • Vinegar and products containing vinegar
  • Fermented foods – sauerkraut and cider
  • “Moldy” foods, such as cheese and dried or smoked meat
  • Cured meat: mortadella, bacon, mortadella
  • Mushrooms
  • Misery
  • soy sauce
  • Canned tomatoes

Here is a short list of good foods:

  • Vegetables, especially green leafy vegetables
  • Beans
  • Uncured fresh beef, poultry, and pork
  • Fish and shellfish
  • Eggs
  • Seeds and nuts

Once you have the above two lists well in mind, start reviewing your recipes. I started with my favorites so as not to feel deprived. I revamped my beef stew recipe by swapping the beef for chicken, dropping the corn, using just 1/2 potato and 1/2 carrot, and adding green beans, zucchini, and cauliflower. To thicken the sauce, I used a little arrowroot instead of flour. It was great!

Another big favorite of mine is the crab cakes. When I lived in Delaware, I lived on the beach with a quagmire behind me. I’d go to the dock in the swamp and drop my crab pot during the season and pick it up when I got home from work. It was usually full of crabs and crab cakes became an obsession.

The problem was, my favorite recipe used breadcrumbs to hold the crab together. So what did I use instead? I grind the almonds. Yes, it is true, almonds. Not only are they good for you, they didn’t really change the flavor and I even started coating the crab cakes in almond flour before baking or frying them. Hmm!

If you do this, one recipe at a time, in addition to adding more healthy foods to your diet, you may discover, as I did, that when my yeast overgrowth disappeared and I could begin adding yeast foods to my diet (slowly, noting how I felt afterwards) I realized that I liked my new way of eating and that the heavier carbohydrate meals that I ate before didn’t appeal to me as much anymore.

It is very easy to do this one by one. On my website you will find more recipes and a mini-course, “10 Secrets to Living Yeast-Free,” to help you tackle this problem. Check out the links below.

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