Help, what can a young vegan eat on the candida diet?!
Help, what can a young vegan eat on the candida diet?
Hi,
I am a vegan and I ate mostly fruit and odwalla juices before the candida diagnosis. I don't know what to do now. Please Help! I would love a structured meal plan, I am starting to get really hungry, is there anybody who can help, because I'd love to eat some breakfast tomorrow. I am normally quite healthy and need a nutritious plan because I don't want to stunt my growth. Thanks so much.
Answers:
Hey Princess,
I hope you are feeling OK. I thought about it for a long time and after some diligent research, I have come up with a plan.
You probably know what you can't eat, but the hard part is fitting together what you can.
Day 1
MORNING
Strawberries
Soy milk
Oatmeal
LUNCH
Cauliflower
Vegan spread
Spinach
Pepper
Tofu
Now,you've got a stir fry
DINNER
Brown Rice,
Asparagus
BBQ tofu strips
______________________________...
Day 2
MORNING
Sugar Free yeast free flat bread
Banana
Sugar free Nut butter
LUNCH
Tortilla
Avocado
Tofu beefy meaty
Lettuce
DINNER
Fakin' Chicken Tofu
Veggies
EVOO
Sticks
NOW,BBQ
SNACKS
Coconut pulp
Strawberry banana smoothie
Tea cone,(it is like a snow cone) use fave tea and stevia and lemon to flavor the cone yummy!
I have so many more Ideas for you, so write me if you need help. I promise you'll get the hang of it in no time.
Signing off, Vegan to Vegan, Princess to Princess,
-See Ya and feel better
The things to eliminate are sugars,including fruit sugars, processed grain products such as white flour and white rice, and other simple carbs such as potatoes and anything that has been fermented or is a fungus-soy sauce,vinegar,pickles,mushroom... You can eat unfermented soy products-tofu and soy milk- as well as nuts, beans and legumes for protein. The only veggies off limits should be mushrooms and anything pickled. After several months on the diet you can cautiously reintroduce fruit and monitor it's effect on your system.
Candida albicans? There's a special diet for having yeast infection?
Monday
Breakfast - Fruit juice and bread with baked beans in tomato sauce
Lunch - Soy milk and sushi
Dinner - Mixed vegan juice, pineapple curry with rice and potato soup
Tuesday
Breakfast - Fruit juice and Bread with fruit jam
Lunch - Soy milk and spaghetti with tomato sauce
Dinner - Mixed vegan juice, Pasta shells with lentils and spinach and Lentil barley soup
Examples of a two day meal plan, just throw in anything you consider to eat that is vegan. Be creative!
I would see a nutirionist. I know you should avoid fruit, anything with yeast or wheat gluten and all refined sugar. Candida thrives on sugar.
It looks as though you still have plenty you can eat.
Just stock your fridge and cupboards with the following edible foods and make sure you get the appropriate amounts of edible fruits, veggies, grains and beans/seeds/nuts
Here is the recommended amount for being vegan
http://www.vegsource.com/food_groups.htm...
And here is a list of food you can eat
Avoid all fruits (fresh, frozen or dried), EXCEPT you can eat ---- EDIBLE- grapefruit, lemon, lime, tangerines, strawberries, cranberries, kiwi, currants, mangoes, bananas & fresh pineapple. Oranges used to be a part of this list but I have found that they cause digestive problems in the stomach in many people, so they should be used in very limited amounts.
Do not eat walnuts or chickpeas.
---EDIBLE- Any other nut, bean or seed is okay to eat.
The only vegetables to stay clear of are mushrooms and sweet potatoes,
EDIBLE- so eat lots of fresh veggies (remember, organic is always better for the body).
-----The best things to drink are grapefruit juice or a natural lemonade. Well or bottled water is important as you will need to flush your system! Herbal teas are good as long as they don't contain the fruits that are not allowed on the diet.
-----Your sugars of choice are pure maple syrup, barley malt, rice malt, molasses, organic cane juice crystals, stevia & sucanat.
------ Your bread of choice will be whole grain sourdough bread (such as Baldwin Hill or French Meadow breads). Look for crackers that are whole grain and yeast free. You must avoid enriched foods, such as crackers, pastas, etc, as they usually enrich with yeast. Stick to whole grain or semolina pastas.
Rainbow Green-Live Food cuisine has about 150 vegan recipes appropriate for the candida diet.
You can have: sprouts, nut milks, veggies(no squash carrots, beets, potatoes), coconut pulp(not water), stevia, millet, buckwheat. It is a very restrictive diet. Try to eat lots of avocados for the calories.
For example: You can make yummy granola with millet and hulled buchwheat: soak overnight, drain, add cinnamon and stevia, bake at lowest temp. in oven until crispy. Serve with fresh almond milk.