When you’re looking for recipes for your Candida diet it’s important to clearly understand what you can and can’t eat on the diet. Eating the wrong foods could set your diet back quite a bit and increase the length of time you have to stay on it. That’s why it’s important to try to eat right throughout the diet. This way you’ll get the best results. When your on a diet for Candida you must avoid foods that feed Candida. This includes sugar in all forms, yeasty foods, moldy foods and simple carbohydrates. The list of foods you can’t eat may seem long to someone new to the diet, but concentrating on the long list of foods you can eat is the best way to approach this eating change. As you do concentrate on these foods you’ll be able to come up with delicious meal ideas that will help you feel great and get rid of your Candida problem. Most meals on a Candida diet will consist of vegetables, meat, beans, legumes, and healthy oils. You will be able to have small servings of allowed fruits occasionally.
You can eat lots of vegetables on this diet. Vegetables help make the body more alkaline. Candida thrives in an acidic environment but doesn’t like alkaline environments very much. Eating plenty of vegetables will help make your body less hospitable for Candida. There are a variety of ways you can eat vegetables. One of the best ways is raw. Eating raw green vegetables in a salad will help you get plenty of nutrients. You can make a simple salad dressing by squeezing the juice of a fresh lemon over your salad and adding a healthy oil like olive or avocado. If you’d rather have a vinegar based dressing you’re allowed to have raw unfiltered cider vinegar on this diet.Sautéed and steamed vegetables make a nice compliment to a meal. You can sauté vegetables in extra virgin coconut oil or olive oil. Add some fresh herbs like thyme, dill or rosemary to to give them more flavor.