Archive for October, 2009
Homemade Ketchup – Candida Diet Recipe
October 26th, 2009 | 
Author: It’s Not exactly Heinz but I don’t know if anything can adequately substitute the High Fructose Corn Syrup taste of store bought ketchup. I hope that you will enjoy this alternative. I especially like it with Meatloaf.
Bon Appetite!
Homemade Ketchup Ingredients
1 Can 6 Oz tomato paste (No citric acid)
Juice of 1 lemon
1 package of Stevia
1/8 tsp salt
1/4 cup water
Homemade Ketchup Directions
Mix all ingredients. Adjust ingredients according to taste.
Marinara Sauce – Candida Diet Recipe
I got this recipe from a can of Cento Crushed Tomatoes. They call it ”Quick and Easy Marinara Sauce.” Cento brand tomatoes were the only tomatoes that I have found that do not have citric acid. Finding these has made cooking yeast free so much easier. I routinely find these at my anyone of my local supermarkets. Use this sauce over Soba Buckwheat Noodles, Spaghetti Squash or Brown Rice Pasta.
Bon Appetite!
Marinara Sauce Ingredients
2 tablespoons Olive Oil
1/2 small onion sliced
1 teaspoon garlic minced
1 28oz can Cento Crushed Tomatoes (they have no citric acid)
Sea Salt to taste
1 tablespoon fresh chopped basil
Marina Sauce Directions
In a medium saucepan, heat oil over medium heat. Add onion; saute until translucent. Add garlic; gently brown. Add tomatoes and season with sea salt and basil to taste. Bring to boil; immediately reduce to slow simmer. Add water to achieve desired consistency. Simmer for approximately 20 minutes. Prepare pasta as per package directions.
Hummus – Candida Diet Recipe
Hummus Ingredients
1 can garbanzo beans (15 ounce can)
1/4 cup garbanzo beans juice
2 Tbls fresh lemon juice
2 Tbls tahini
1 clove garlic, minced
1/4 tsp salt
Hummus Directions
Drain chickpeas reserving 1/4 cup of the liquid
Place all ingredients in blender and mix until smooth and creamy
Eat with Brown rice crackers, veggies, or corn tortilla chips
Beef Stir Fry – Candida Diet Recipe
This is something I through together in a rush and it actually came out pretty good. I always use chopsticks to eat it as it makes me feel as if I am indulging in beef and broccoli from my favorite Chinese food Restaurant. Maybe I am delusional but it makes me feel like I am not missing out on so much. I hope that you enjoy it too.
Beef Stir Fry Ingredients
1/2 lb of beef for stir fry
1 Tbs olive oil
1 medium onion chopped
5 cloves garlic chopped
1 cup Brown rice (cooked)
2 cups of water
Fresh or Frozen vegetable of choice, steamed (Broccoli, Sweet Peas or Sugar Snap Peas and String Beans all work well)
Beef Stir Fry Directions
Heat oil in a Medium Skillet and add beef
Saute until meat is completely browned
Add garlic and onion
Cook for about 5 minutes stirring frequently
Add water and stir
Set at medium heat and cover
Cook for 20 minutes and then toss with brown rice and vegetable
Recipe by Tennille
Rotisserie Chicken – Convenient Candida Diet Meal Idea
Have you ever walked into your local grocery store around midday and noticed the display of fully cooked rotisserie chickens? I never really paid attention to this display until recently. I began to question whether those chickens would be okay for the candida diet. A fully cooked chicken would sure be convenient enough and could be easily paired with brown rice or a baked potato and any vegetable. I could even use leftovers for chicken salad the next day.
The next time I was in the supermarket I mad an effort to inspect this amazing chickens a little more closely. The first one I picked up was an Italian seasoned rotisserie chicken and the ingredients read chicken, dextrose, glutamate and some other stuff. This chicken was a no go. The next couple of chickens that I inspected had similar ingredients. I was about to give up. Then I so one lonely little chicken away from the name brand rotisserie chickens and to my delight the ingredients read “Chicken.” Hooray, just chicken! I was thrilled. So the next time you that you are strapped for time and need to throw together a candida diet meal very quickly give a rotisserie chicken a try.
Bon Appetite!
Tennille
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Why Is the Candida Diet So Hard to Stick to?
Why is the candida diet so hard to stick to? This question comes to my mind at about 5:45PM as I am trying to prepare a candida diet appropriate meal for dinner. The thought vanishes pretty quickly as I am armed with the Candida Control Cookbook by Gail Burton, one of my favorite candida diet cookbooks, and am trying to find a recipe that may work for tonight’s dinner. I find one that doesn’t seem too complicated, so I decide to go for it.
Now the race is on to get dinner to the table as quickly as possible. I begin washing, chopping, measuring, sauteing and turning, all while helping my second grader with her spelling sentences and my 2 year old with her ABC puzzle. As I am tending to some minor recipe details a fight breaks out over a box of crayons, I think. I find myself screaming at both children and wondering why I did not just grab some Hamburger Helper, Chef Boyardee or Kraft Macaroni and Cheese for dinner. The time is now 7:30 PM and dinner is just about done. We sit down and eat which takes about 30 minutes and then the race to bed begins.
I dare not look at the sink full of dishes and hurry off to do baths, stories and tuck ins. I make my way back to the kitchen and pack up the leftovers, load the dishwasher and make the kids lunches for the next day. Finally, I am done but it is minutes to 10 and I am exhausted. I put on the tea kettle so that I can prepare a cup of Pau D’Arco tea. I sit on the couch with my tea in hand and as I begin to sip I think to myself again “Why is the candida diet so hard to stick to?” Pondering this question leads me to thinking about how much easier the night would have gone if I had just prepared something quick. You know a 30 minute Campbell’s meal, Velveeta, Stovetop Stuffing, Stouffer’s Skillet Sensations, Banquet Pot Pies, frozen pizza and/or fish sticks. These are just a few of my favorite quick meals that I, in the not so distant past and with the best of intentions, was preparing for my family. Obviously I would add some frozen vegetables to make it “healthy”, but in the back of my mind I knew that I should be preparing better meals for my family. Additionally, this behavior was only adding to my yeast problem and not setting a very good example on how to eat for my children.
I am sure that there are many reasons that people find the candida diet hard to stick to but the most compelling reason for me is that it is just not convenient. I am a single mother of two and I strive to make things as simple as possible in order to have the most possible quality time with my children. This is usually how end up failing on this diet. There may be a night that we get home late and I am just not prepared to make a candida diet meal. Lack of ingredients, lack of time or just pure laziness may reign and I end up at the pizzeria, Subway, McDonald’s, Wendy’s or Popeye’s with the kids. It it hard to get back on track after this. Blatantly cheating once makes it much easier to cheat again and again.
So is there anything we can do to make the candida diet more convenient? I do believe that there is something we can do. We have to prepare for those moments of weakness. I believe we still need to have convenient, candida diet friendly of course, foods around the house to be successful at this. I realize that you may not think that convenient candida foods exist but after careful label reading I believe that at least a few do. My new found favorite is the fully cooked, ready to eat rotisserie chicken found at many grocery stores. You do have to read the ingredient label though. Some of the brand name chickens have additives and flavoring that are not candida diet approved. The only ingredient that you want is Chicken. If the ingredient label includes anything more than this you may inadvertently be breaking the candida diet.
My local Shoprite sells these chickens for $4.99 ($3.99 after 6 PM). These chickens have saved me from cheating on the candida diet at least twice in the last 3 weeks. I served the chicken with brown rice and vegetables. As I continue on this journey to regain my health I will be posting other ideas for quick candida diet meals. If lack of convenience is also your barrier to success on the candida diet I hope that my ideas will help you to suceed. Please feel free to comment on other reasons that the candida diet is so hard to stick to. I would love to hear your thoughts.
Bon Appetite!
Tennille
Spaghetti and Meatsauce – Candida Diet Recipe
This is a terrific yeast free meal. The sauce is delicious and you can try different gluten free pasta alternatives such as Japanese soba buckwheat noodles, brown rice pasta. This meal is carbohydrate heavy so please be aware of the amount of carbohydrates that you are consuming throughout the day and adjust accordingly. Bon Appetite!
Meat Mixture - Ingredients
1 pound ground veal, turkey, or chicken
1 medium yellow onion, scrubbed, peeled, and finely grated
2 tablespoons coarsely chopped fresh parsley
1 teaspoon garlic powder
1 tablespoon coarsely chopped fresh oregano
1 large egg
Meat Mixture - Directions
Mix all ingredients in a large bowl
Set aside until sauce is prepared
(Yields 4 Servings, 4 carbohydrates per serving)
Spaghetti Sauce – Ingredients
1 can (15 Ounce) unsweetened tomato sauce (without citric acid, I use Cento)
1 can (6 ounces) tomato paste (without citric acid, I use shoprite brand)
2 tablespoon coarsely chopped fresh parsley
2 tablespoons 100% pure, cold-pressed olive oil
1 tablespoon each coarsely chopped fresh basil and oregano
Spaghetti Sauce – Directions
Place all ingredients in a large pot
Add Meat Mixture to sauce
Place on Medium heat and bring to boil
Reduce heat to low and simmer for 1 hour
Pasta
Use Japaneese soba buckwheat noodles, Brown Rice Pasta or Corn Pasta
Cook your pasta of choice according to package directions
Note: Spaghetti Squash is a delicious and healthy pasta alternative
Recipe by Gail Burton – The Candida Control Cookbook page 103
Sugar and the Candida Diet
Sugars are enemy number one to regaining your health via a candida diet. Yeasts thrive on sugar. Most of us who have been experiencing candida related health problems crave sugar and find it extremely hard to completely eliminate this ingredient from our diets. What makes matters worse is that sugar is in so many of the things we eat during the day. I don’t mean the obvious snacks like cookies, candy or ice cream. I mean all those prepared foods that we pick up to eat on a daily basis. Start reading labels at the store and you will see exactaly what I mean. Sugar is also a bit of a chamelon as it is not always labeled “sugar” on packaging. Here are some of sugar’s alias.
Homemade Mayonnaise 2 – Candida Diet Recipe
Mayonnaise is a staple condiment. Most of us use it on a daily or at least a weekly basis. This can prove to be a very difficult ingredient to exclude from your diet. This homemade mayonnaise recipe is extremely tasty and candida diet approved. Bon Appetite!
Tip 1: Yields about 3 cups. Remember that homemade mayonnaise goes bad really fast. If you don’t need a lot of mayonnaise use Homemade Mayonnaise Recipe 1.
Mayonnaise Ingredients
6 large egg yolks
2 cups pure, cold-pressed safflower oil
1/4 cup fresh lemon juice
1/4 cup water
1 teaspoon sea salt
1 teaspoon dry mustard
Mayonnaise Directions
Beat egg yoks for 2 munutes using a food processor of electric mixer=
Pour 1 cup of safflower oil into a measuring cup
SLOWLY drizzle a thin stream of oil in with the egg yoks WHILE beating at high speed
Continue until the entire cup of oil is mixed
Mixture should be thick
Drizzle in the last cup of safflower oil WHILE still beating at high speed
Add additional ingredients (lemon juice, water and mustard)
Spoon Mayonnaise into jar with tight lid
Store in the refridgerator no more than 7 days
Recipe by Gail Burton – The Candida Control Cookbook: What You Should Know and What You Should Eat to Manage Yeast Infections (New Revised & Updated Edition) page 145
Brown Rice Pilaf – Candida Diet Recipe
So I have admitted that I am now a brown rice lover but I understand that many of you may think that I am crazy. If you are still having trouble transitioning to brown rice maybe preparing this candida diet friendly brown rice pilaf will change you mind. My mother and my oldest daughter do not like brown rice but when I prepare it this way there are no complaints. This is a simple yet flavorful recipe that I found on Recipezaar. It is a quick and easy side dish that you can use again and again on the candida diet.
Brown Rice Pilaf Ingredients
1 tablespoon of olive oil
1 small yellow onion, chopped
3 garlic cloves, minced
1 cup long grain brown rice
2 1/2 cups chicken broth
sea salt to taste
Brown Rice Pilaf Directions
Chop onion and mince garlic.
In a skillet, heat oil over medium-high heat and add onion and garlic. Stir until onion is golden.
Add rice and saute for 1 minute.
Add broth, and season with salt and pepper to taste. Bring to a boil and then cover and reduce heat to low. Simmer until rice is tender and most of the liquid is absorbed. Check rice occasionally and add water if necessary
Recipe for Brown Rice Pilaf on Recipezaar by Halcyon Eve
