Warmer weather means more vacations–and more travel. Or maybe your work takes you on the road more than you’d like. When you’re busy traveling, what happens to your special diet? Do you feel as if you’re compromising your food choices because you’re not at home? In today’s video, I talk about how to stick within […]
Living Candida-Free
Carob Coconut Bark
This Carob Coconut Bark is rich and creamy, with a texture very much like chocolate. It’s sugar-free, gluten-free, grain-free, dairy-free, egg free, soy-free, yeast-free, and vegan. Suitable for any stage on an anti-candida diet. There seem to be two schools of thought when it comes to carob. The first one says it’s a great substitute for chocolate […]
How to Stay on Your Special Diet While Traveling
With vacation season upon us, more and more of you will be leaving home to travel. But what happens to your special diet when you’re away from home? In today’s Candida Corner video, I talk about how to stick within your dietary boundaries and still enjoy a hearty breakfast on the road. Here are some […]
Candida Corner 2: Which Prepared or Packaged Foods Can You Eat on a Candida Diet?
Even when you have a full list of foods you can or cannot eat on an anti-candida diet, it’s sometimes difficult to know whether a particular packaged food is actually permitted or not. To some extent anyone on a special diet needs to learn how to be an ingredient detective. In today’s Candida Corner hangout, […]
Top Ten Delicious Ways to Use Leftover Sauerkraut Juice
If you follow a whole-foods or traditional diet, you’ve probably eaten your fair share of lacto-fermented sauerkraut (in fact, it’s probably fair to guess that you’ve even made some from scratch, right?). Lacto-fermented sauerkraut–and other naturally fermented foods, like kimchi–are staples on most anti-candida diets, too. They’re bursting with healthy probiotics and taste great as […]
Roasted Garlic and Cauliflower Soup with Herbed Dumplings
[photo: Nicole Axworthy] Okay, before I even begin today’s post, let me state unequivocally: I am not going to make any references whatsoever to the Super Bowl. (Oh, wait, I guess technically, I did just that. Harumph). As many of you long-time readers know, the HH and I have virtually no interest in football, or […]
Lyme, Sugar and Healing from Chronic Disease: Hangout with Alison Smith, PhD
If you’re dealing with a chronic condition like candida, you know how tough it can be at times to persist and push through. With Lyme disease, the healing period can be even longer’ the diet protocol (which is also sugar-free) can present challenges to people who are already depleted in so many ways. In today’s […]
Is There One “Right” Anti-Candida Diet?
[Can you eat this delicious Pumpkin Fudge on an anti-candida diet? (Why, yes. Yes you can.).] Are you thinking of starting an anti-candida diet, or wonder if it’s right for you? Do you feel lost about where to start? Look at the different anti-candida diets out there, and you’ll find almost as many diets as […]
Candida and Stress
Take a look at the typical anti-candida diet, and you’ll likely see a long list of things you need to remove from your life: sugar, alcohol, mold, toxins, processed foods. You’ll find a (shorter) list of what to add: probiotics, antifungals, perhaps special supplements or herbs to aid with detoxification. And when people still fail […]
Carrot Colada
Today please welcome Shirley from Gluten Free Easily! If memory serves me correctly, Shirley is one of the very first bloggers I met in the GF community (or maybe it’s just that it feels as if we’ve known each other a long time!). Somehow, we got to chatting via email, and I discovered that Shirley […]