Creamy Green Calmer Smoothie

Excellent, thanks so much Cindy!
As always I’m so glad to be part of your gluten free party. I admire how you manage all the giveaways, blog, cooking, family and other shenanigans – Amazing!!!

Hi Sarah, I agree that it is very confusing. It always seemed odd to me that rice milk was meant to be allowed on the candida diet considering how sweet it tastes. I can only imagine that it has to do with the fact that you are meant to only have it in small amounts after the strict phase of the diet. So a good amount of candida will have been killed by that point.

Your body does need some carbs to function properly. So some of the sugar would actually be used by your body, it wouldn’t all feed the yeast. I personally never experienced a flare up because of rice milk. I think that a big part of the illness is the food intolerances and secondary infections that the yeast imbalance might have caused not the actual candida. This would not be affected when you consume rice milk but when you eat pasta.

Wheat is not only acidic which is the opposite of what you need for healing, but it is really sticky and tends to glue your intestines together which in turn can cause the rest of your food not to be digested properly and impacts the healthy bacteria in your gut. So it’s a big no no during the diet and will slow your healing down. I learned that painfully because I kept eating it, thinking that I wasn’t allergic to it.

I ate it for many months not knowing any better, and only when I stopped eating it I started healing properly. Most candida sufferers react badly to gluten/ wheat, even if they are not allergic to it.

And brown rice cakes are not good either – you can occasionally eat them as an emergency but you’ll heal much quicker if you stick to fresh wholesome foods. Soups and bone broth are best in the initial stages of the diet, alongside fish, eggs and organic vegetables and meat.