This Candida diet has been provided courtesy of Brenda Eastwood. Brenda brings 30 years of nutritional experience to the formulation of this comprehensive diet and has had tremendous success helping thousands of people struggling with candida. For more information on Brenda, please visit www.brendaeastwood.com
WEEK ONE
Dairy Products: butter (not margarine), 1- 1 1/2 cups of plain yogurt per day, goat’s milk feta 1/2 cup, 1-2 oz of milk or cream per day, 1 tbsp of sour cream. You can use one cup of unsweetened coconut milk per day, 1/2 cup cottage cheese per day.
Tip: It is safe to add vanilla or almond extract to your yogurt. You can also add stevia for a little sweetener if you wish, but only if you have to. Eating something sweet perpetuates the craving for something sweet
Fruit: NONE except lime and lemon are allowed.
Vegetables: All of the following are allowable in any quantity unless noted. The limited portions are per serving.
NO CORN (it is not a vegetable), NO WHITE POTATOES, No Parsnips
Artichoke hearts 1 cup canned
Asparagus 3 cups fresh
Avocado 1/2
Bamboo shoots 3 cups canned
Beet Greens cooked 2 cups
Beets cooked 1 1/2 cup
Broad beans 1/2 cup
Broccoli 1 1/2 cup cooked
Brussel sprouts
Cabbage
Carrots 2 medium carrots
Cauliflower
Celery
Chard
Chickpeas (garbanzo) 1/2 cup
Cucumber
Eggplant
Endive
Green beans 1 1/2 cup
Green Onion
Jacama
Kale
Kidney beans 1 cup
Leeks (1)
Lentils 3/4 cup
Lettuce
Lima beans 1/2 cup
Mushrooms
Okra 1 cup
Olives
Onions 1 1/2 medium
Peas 1/2 cup
Peppers
Pickles
Pinto beans 1/2 cup
Pumpkin 1/2 cup
Sauerkraut
Spinach
Squash 3/4 cup
Sweet potato 1/2 medium
Tomato
Turnip (Rutabagas)
Watercress
Yam 1/2 cup
Zucchin
Make sure you eat no less than 2 cups of vegetables per day not including what you eat of lettuce, peas, or mushrooms.
Grains: None: no rice, rice cakes, crackers, pasta, oatmeal, popcorn, bagels and bread.
Protein: all meat and seafood can be included although for other health reasons avoid luncheon meats, sausages, wieners and other types of processed meats. You can eat: tuna, shrimp, lobster, lamb, pork, beef, eggs, cod, halibut, salmon, clams, oysters, chicken, turkey, etc.
Nuts/Seeds: limited amounts are per serving.
Almond butter: up to 2 tbsp
Almonds 1/2 cup
Cashew butter; up to 2 tbsp
Hazel nuts or Filberts 1/2 cup
Macadamia nuts, dry roasted 1/2 cup
Peanuts 1/4 cup
Peanut butter 2 tbsp
Pecans 1/2 cup
Pine nuts 1/2 cup
Pistachios 1/2 cup
Pumpkin Seeds 1/2 cup
Sunflower Seeds 1/2 cup
Tahini 2 tbsp
Walnuts 1/2 cup
Sweeteners: if you must have something sweet, occasional use of stevia throughout the program is acceptable. Again, be fully aware that eating something sweet perpetuates the craving for something sweet. Do not use any artificial sweeteners such as aspartame, splenda, nutra-sweet, etc.
Beverages: you may drink unlimited amounts of natural coffee substitutes, non-caffeine herbal teas either hot or cold, lots of water (add fresh lemon or lime if you wish), mineral water, and soda water.
You can have one – 8 oz serving of tomato juice or V8 twice a day.
You may have up to 16 ounces of Swiss water decaffeinated coffee and/or caffeinated coffee per day or black tea. This amount is in total, so you cannot have 2 cups of coffee and two cups of black tea. Coffee and tea will make you acidic and this is not helpful for eliminating a Candida overgrowth or for helping you achieve optimal health. Black tea is also acidic so even though it has less caffeine in it, please limit to 16 oz per day. Green tea contains caffeine and so I would also limit your consumption, but because of its antioxidant properties, you can have up to 32 oz per day.
Do not have diet or regular pop, alcohol, fruit juice and fruit drinks.
Almond Milk, Soy Milk, Rice Milk: 1/2 cup a day of Blue Diamond Almond Breeze (or similar product), unsweetened original would be fine. The ingredients are: purified water, almonds, tapioca starch, calcium carbonate, sea salt, potassium citrate, carrageenan and soy lecithin and natural flavours. It is also okay to have 1/2 cup of unsweetened soy milk per day. Choose one or the other per day. You cannot have 1/2 cup or soy milk and 1/2 cup almond milk in the same day.
BUT DO NOT have rice milk regular or unsweetened as it has too many carbohydrates in it.
Condiments: No Ketchup, real tamari soy sauce is allowed. You can use mayonnaise in small amounts. All spices without sugar are fine. All oils are fine.
Vinegar: I have researched this one extensively and have gone back and forth on the permissibility of it in a Candida diet. Some say not to have vinegar because it makes the body more acidic and excess acidity can make some peoples symptoms worse. So, if you have a bad case of Candida I would say that you should refrain from using any vinegar except pure unpasteurized apple cider vinegar (UACV). If you don’t have a bad case of Candida, then you could use regular vinegar sparingly but don’t use balsamic vinegar. UACV is safe to use daily because it creates malic acid in our bodies as it digests which either kills yeast or does not allow it to reproduce.
WEEK TWO
Dairy Products: You may add 1/3 cup of hard cheese (approximately 50 grams) daily, Monterey Jack, Swiss, mozzarella, Colby and provolone are your best choices.
Fruit: You can have one fruit OR one grain per day. If choosing a fruit, select from the following (all of the following are fresh, they can be frozen too if no sugar is added)
Apple, 1/2 of a medium
Blackberries, 1 cup
Blueberries, 1/2 cup
Cherry, fresh 14
Grapefruit, 1 (3 inch) diameter
Mango, 1/2 cup
Orange, 1/2 medium
Peach, 1 cup
Pear, 1/2
Plums, 2
Raspberries, 1 cup
Strawberries, 1 cup
No watermelon, dates, prunes or dried fruit
Grains: You can either have one fruit OR one grain per day. If choosing a grain, select from the following (the goal is to have no more than 15 g. of carbs in a grain serving. If the grain you desire is not listed, go to http://www.carbohydrate-counter.org/ ) Choose whole grains, such as brown rice over white rice, whole grain bread over white bread, slow cooked oatmeal over quick oats, etc. I do not recommend rice cakes or rice crackers as they convert to sugar very quickly.
Bagel, whole grain, 1/2
Bread (preferably rye) 1 slice
Corn tortilla
Pancake, whole grain, 4 inch diameter
Pasta, whole wheat, 1/2 cup
Pita pocket, whole wheat, 4’ diameter
Popcorn, 2 1/2 cups
Rice, between 1/3 to 1/2 cup
Pumpernickel; 47g 1 slice (5” x 4” x 3/8”)
Rye (100%) bread, 1 slice
WEEK THREE
You may have either one fruit and one grain per day, but not at the same meal or
You may have two fruits and no grains, but not at the same meal.
You may have two grains and no fruit, but not at the same meal.
WEEK FOUR
You may have either one fruit and two grain per day, but not at the same meal or
You may have two fruits and one grain, but not at the same meal.
You may have three grains and no fruit, but not at the same meal.
If choosing fruit, you can have any of week two fruit and/or ONE a day from the following:
Apricots, 4
Banana, 1/2 large
Cantaloupe, 1 cup
Honeydew, 1 cup
Kiwi, 1
Nectarine, 1 medium
Papaya, 1 cup
Pineapple, 3/4 cups
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