Ricki Heller: Sugar-free, gluten-free, egg-free, dairy-free recipes and resources

Dreena Burton’s Wow ‘Em Waffles

These Wow ‘Em Waffles from Dreena’s new book, Dreena’s Kind Kitchen, are a treat! If you’re looking for a great breakfast or brunch option, these waffles are vegan, sugar-free, gluten-free, , dairy-free, egg free, soy-free, nut-free, and yeast-free.

Today I’m excited to share a recipe for my favorite meal of the day, from one of my favorite vegan recipe developers! My friend Dreena Burton just came out with a brand new cookbook, Dreena’s Kind Kitchen, which contains this yummy recipe for Wow ‘Em Waffles.

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Quick and Easy Chocolate Chip Cookie Dough Snack (Keto, Candida, Sugar-free, Dairy-free, Egg-free, Grain-free)

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Craving cookie dough? You can have some chocolate chip cookie dough in less than 5 minutes! Plus it’s vegan, sugar-free, gluten-free, grain-free, dairy-free, egg-free, soy-free, nut-free, yeast-free, and low glycemic. Suitable for Stage 2 and beyond on an anti-candida diet.]

Bowl of sugarfree, grainfree, eggfree, dairyfree chocolate chip cookie dough

It’s funny how things change with time.

Or maybe I should say, plus ça change, plus c’est la même chose?

When I was a kid, my sisters and I would literally fight over who got to lick the chocolate chip cookie batter out of the bowl. My mother baked chocolate chip cookies pretty rarely, and we all loved that soft, sweet, chippy dough.

In fact, I can remember many a time as an adult, when I finished baking the cookies and the final output was well below the suggested yield on that bag of Nestle’s chips. (Because of course, everyone I knew made the Nestle Toll House cookie recipe that was on the bag).

Was it a bad recipe that didn’t predict the number of cookies correctly? Were my cookies so enormous that I only got half as many as suggested? Was I somehow counting them wrong?

No, no, and no.

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When you think, “I deserve it!”

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I hear this story from clients all the time. Maybe you’ve been following a healthy diet because of some condition, like Lyme disease, candida overgrowth, SIBO or something else. Or maybe you need to follow a low-histamine diet, a low-oxalate diet or some other “free-from” diet, like gluten-free, sugar-free, or whatever. You start the diet […]

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Broccoli Spoon Salad

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bowl of raw broccoli salad with goji berries and seeds over a colorful plate.

[If you’re looking for a new favorite salad, this is it! A great new way to use broccoli that everyone can love. This Broccoli Spoon Salad is vegan, sugar-free, gluten-free, grain-free, dairy-free, egg free, soy-free, nut-free, yeast-free, and low glycemic. Suitable for Stage 2 and beyond on an anti-candida diet.] I think we can all […]

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The Power of One

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When you’re first told you need to change your diet for health reasons, it can feel like you’ve been dumped into a huge vat of chocolate with a collection of random tools and utensils floating everywhere and you have to try to fish through everything at once and create some kind of order. In other […]

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How your mindset affects your diet

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Ricki in a turquose shirt talking about how mindset affects food choices

I love stories of people who “made it” later in life. For instance, did you know that Julia Child didn’t publish her first cookbook until she was 50? Laura Ingalls Wilder didn’t publish her first Little House book (which became the TV show Little House on the Prairie) until she was 65. Grandma Moses didn’t […]

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Grain-Free, Sugar-Free, Nut-Free, Dairy-Free Salted Caramel Truffle Cups

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plate of sugar-free, grain-free, salted caramel protein cups

[The perfect healthy obsession! These Salted Caramel Protein Cups are vegan, sugar-free, gluten-free, grain-free, dairy-free, egg free, soy-free, nut-free, yeast-free, and low glycemic. Suitable for Stage 2 and beyond on an anti-candida diet.] When I first heard from Naked Nutrition inquiring if I might be interested in trying their products for a sponsored post, my […]

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Does your food do this for you?

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Now that I’m an (ahem) mature woman who has been with my spouse for almost two dozen years, I can honestly say that I don’t know a single female friend who doesn’t have at least one cringe-worthy relationship in her past. What’s usually worse, most of us have had the same cringe-worthy relationship. ..several times, […]

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How to Deal with Setbacks, Part Two

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If you follow a restricted diet for health reasons, you have likely experienced setbacks at some point. I know, I know: for most of us, as we barrel along with our new diets, feeling confident as we begin to feel better, we imagine a healing trajectory that brings us from where we are right now […]

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How to Deal with Setbacks, Part One

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Ricki looks aside while talking about dealing with setbacks.

Ever since I first started my anti-candida diet, I’ve been asked this question countless times (before the ACD, the most common question I was asked was, “When are you due?” Yes, really.). This week, on my YouTube channel, I was asked once again in the comments: “Can you show us what you eat?” In this […]

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