can i eat oatmeal and grits? i'm southern to the bone and have to have grits, but i understand they're made from corn and on the candida diet, corn is OUT....
so i guess breakfast is mostly bacon and eggs and water....lots of water....
can i eat any grains? somebody told me ezekiel bread and somebody else said no yeast bread.
ugh, confusing..."the yeast connection" book has a pretty good listing but it says absolutely no fruit, no white, no sugar, and no bread. just meat eggs and raw vegetables. BORING......
but i sounds like i have to do this. aw well, maybe i'll loose weight.
Posted by backintherain (Member # 14385) on :
Technically, I don't think oatmeal or corn are allowed. But there are so many variations on the anti-candida diet. You'll end up finding some that allow you to eat certain grains, but it's probably harder to get/stay well if you aren't strict with your diet. If you end up following a version of the diet that allows you to eat corn, then try not to overdo it. For example, only eat corn in small quantities, and only once or twice a week.
I like the Body Ecology Diet, which allows you to eat buckwheat, millet, amaranth, and quinoa.
It's a good idea to eat veggies for breakfast. As a southerner, do you like greens? Sauteed kale or chard is good, or a spinach, onion, and pepper omelet?
Posted by INEBG (Member # 27690) on :
Yes, buckwheat, millet, amaranth, and quinoa are the ones I eat, still in small quantities. I haven't found a way, yet, to make millet taste good. Backintherain, do you have a good recipe? If you cook it with enough water, it does kind of look like grits....
I've heard corn and rice are both too high in sugar, and oats have gluten.
Backintherain, do you eat veggies for breakfast? Was it difficult to get used to doing that? I keep trying it, but honestly, I am not in the mood for vegetables before lunch time. Often I end up skipping breakfast because I just don't want to eat any of the stuff I can have, and I can't have any of the stuff I want.
Is the Body Ecology Diet for candida?
randibear, I just got back from Georgia and had a couple of WH breakfasts, and took a chance and ate some grits. Nothing terrible happened to me. I think, as backintherain said, limited amounts may be ok. If you start getting yeast issues, then maybe back off of it for awhile.
Posted by Hoosiers51 (Member # 15759) on :
Don't forget about beans and lentils. Beans you gotta soak in advance if they are dry, but with lentils, you don't have to. That's one of the big advantages of lentils.
You can use chickpeas like pasta, and just put sauce on them, and they taste good. I cook my own chickpeas, instead of buying them canned. It's a hassle though, unless you enjoy that sort of thing, which I do.
Soups are great. You can make veggie soups, and add beans or lentils or meats for some substance. White bean and kale soup is a classic Italian soup that's really good. It normally has some kind of pork in it too I think.
All that said.....I am not big on giving up grains. I just don't feel good off them. I need more carbs than that.
Oh, you can also mash up chickpeas or boiled parsnip instead of mashing potatoes (and then add all the fixins like butter, etc), and supposedly it tastes great.
Posted by TF (Member # 14183) on :
The Body Ecology Diet is for people with candida, so it is a great diet for lymies, and you can use all their recipes.
My lyme doc told me to follow this diet.
They have a great recipe for a hot porridge for breakfast using quoina flakes. Quoina is a seed and not a grain, so it is allowed.
This was my breakfast every day for a year while I treated and got rid of lyme and company. It is so good!
Make a big batch and you won't have to cook it every day.
You can't eat oatmeal or grits on the anti-candida diet. I never ate them. If I did, I got yeast.
So, the closest thing to a grain I found is the quoina. Cook whole quoina and use it like rice or pasta. I made beef stroganoff today and put it over quoina. Great!
You also can have mayonaise since it is basically made from raw egg yolks and oil. So, you can make chicken salad or tuna salad and eat that.
You can make stuffed peppers using quoina instead of rice. Buy the quoina in a health food store.
You can eat all vegetables raw or cooked except you can't have potatoes, corn and beets. These are starchy or full of sugar, so they are a no-no.
Posted by INEBG (Member # 27690) on :
Oh yeah! I look forward to trying that porridge; it sounds terrific! I need to source quinoia flakes.
Have you found a mayonaise that does not have vinegar in it?
Posted by jlp38 (Member # 27221) on :
the best way to make veggies for breakfast is to saute them and make a big omelette or just put them on top of scrambled eggs
i think ezekial break is ok in moderation
Posted by fflutterby (Member # 28081) on :
But ezekial bread has yeast doesn't it, is this okay ?????
Posted by Keebler (Member # 12673) on :
- Ezekial bread contains gluten (from the barley). So, no. If you are near a Trader Joe's, see if yours has from their own bakery, a gluten-free Brown Rice Bread. It's very good. But, I still find it too high on the glycemic index.
It's really best not to consume any ground flours at all and go for the whole grain, in moderation, along with other foods. Lyme puts us as far greater risk for diabetes. So do processed grains. Whole grains, on the other hand, can help us avoid diabetes. -