Candida Cleanse: The Rules, The Diet

I, Nikki, am Blogging my crazy thoughts and cravings during my on-going Candida Cleanse, in a step by step journal titled The Candida Chronicles , so I can share with you the Dietary Rules (below), the Meal Plans and Recipes, the Tips and Facts, and most importantly, the RESULTS. If I can lick this problem, letting ‘Food be my Medicine’ and only using Herbals then you can too!

Take the preliminary Candida Quiz to see what Candida is, and if you have the Symptoms of this nasty Yeast condition affecting both women, and men.

Here are the Dietary Rules for a Candida Cleanse:

Eat nothing that feeds or supports Yeast, nothing fermented, or anything that attracts Mold. Nothing that aggravates a Common Food Allergy. All foods are Organic and any animal products must have no Antibiotics or Steroids.

Starting with the No No’s:

• No nuts or seeds (mold)
• No mushrooms (a fungus/mold)
• No vinegars save apple cider vinegar
• Nothing with vinegar (ex. pickles etc.)
• Nothing with fruit whatsoever
• No dairy save plain yogurt and ghee (butter)
• Nothing fermented like soy sauce or beer
• No booze
• No caffeine stimulants (such as coffee, tea, hot chocolate, pop)
• Nothing sweet be it natural or man made-honey, syrups, molasses etc. (only Stevia)
• No wheat products
• Nothing with YEAST in it
• No Corn, carrots, potatoes, beets or high in sugar vegetable
• No MSG (bouillons)
• No hot spices

By now you may be wondering…well what the hell can I have then?

Here are the YES’s:

• Herbal teas, decaffeinated
• Vegetable cocktail
• Carbonated water
• Lemons/Limes
• Plain Yogurt
• Ghee (clarified butter)
• Rice Cheese, Soy cheese
• Rice plain milk
• Flours to bake with: Millet, Brown Rice, Amaranth, Buckwheat, Quinoa
• Pasta/Roti/Flat breads or Crackers/Cereal/Crepes can be made from above
• Meats: Chicken, Turkey, Fish (not shell fish), Beef, Lamb, Goat
• Garlic, Onions, Ginger to flavour
• Olive oil, grape-seed oil, coconut oil, sunflower oil, sesame seed oil
• Apple cider Vinegar
• Stevia
• Herbs
• Spices
• Curry paste
• Kelp
• Braggs (unfermented) sauce
• Yellow mustard
• Veganese mayo
• Avocados
• Spinach
• Lettuce
• Celery
• Green Beans
• Zucchini
• Eggplant
• Radishes
• Cucumbers
• Broccoli
• Cauliflower
• Green & brightly colored peppers
• Green/Red/Yellow onions, chives
• Sprouts
• Spaghetti squash
• Pumpkin squash
• Peas
• All Green Leafy Veges (chlorophyll)
• *Chick peas
• *Apples, unsweetened apple sauce and juice
• *Unsweetened coconut meat and milk

*Tomatoes, chick peas, apples, and coconut were the only ones in question here. I didn’t find out concretely until day 10 that these were on the NO List. So until day 10, I included them in my diet, especially Tomatoes, as they were the basis for so many dishes. They are okay to include, however, in later stages of the Cleanse.

Image credits: avinashkunnath, Monica Holy

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