Recipes for Candida diet and Gluten free diet?

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1. Chef Anne says:

   August 30, 2010 at 6:32 am

   Hi Space!

   My heart goes out to you! The candida diet is so strict that you’re lucky you haven’t starved to death. I’ve found two recipes for you, but more than that, I’ve found places where you can get recipes for free. I think it might help you if you could choose the recipes that sound good to you. At this point, I imagine anything sounds good! These two recipes were devoloped by a girl with candida, and she also has a blog with recipes.

   CHOCOLATE CAKE

   1/4 cup of dairy-free (lactose-free) margarine
   5 very heaping teaspoons of rice syrup
   3 eggs
   2 teaspoons gluten-free vanilla (or vanilla extract)
   1/4 cup cocoa powder
   1 1/2 cups white rice flower (not brown)
   1 teaspoon gluten-free baking powder

   All you have to do is find 2 8 inch round cake pans — grease them with the margarine. Preheat the oven to 350 degrees.

   1. Put the margarine, rice syrup, eggs, vanilla, cocoa powder, rice flower and baking powder into a medium mixing bowl and beat until smooth and creamy (won’t take long).
   2. Put half of the batter in each of the cake pans and smooth the surface of each. If you have gluten, sugar, dairy free chocolate chips (as I mention in my candida-friendly chocolate chip cookie recipe) then you can sprinkle them on the tops of both pans full of batter.
   3. Bake in the preheated oven for 25 minutes.
   4. Leave to cool for a half an hour or so, then place one of the cake halfs on a plate, and spread strawberry jam (with no sugar — and only if you’re far enough along in your candida diet to be able to accept natural sugars — so 4 months in or so), then place the other half on top.
   5. Cut, and enjoy.

   It’s so yummy! I had a quarter of the cake last night — you’ve got to eat it fast, because rice flour tends to crumble apart quickly.
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   CANDIDA FRIENDLY CHOCOLATE CHIP COOKIES

   1 cup brown rice flour (you can also use white rice flour if you’d like)
   4 tbsp grapeseed oil
   1 heaping tbsp rice syrup
   a bit less than 1/2 a tsp of salt
   1 beaten egg
   1 large handful of chocolate chips (must have cane juice in them instead of sugar; in Canada I believe the one good brand is Tropical) this is the only slight cheat in the recipe but cane juice is better for you than refined sugar
   2 tbsp of water

   -Blend all ingredients
   -Chill for at least an hour in the fridge
   -Use a non-stick cookie sheet (or grease a cookie sheet)
   -Roll into one inch balls (the dough will be crumbly, but you can roll it all together and then flatten the balls)
   -bake for 10-12 minutes at 350 degrees

   note that rice flour doesn’t brown (except for on the bottom of the cookies), so they will be done after this time though they won’t look like they are

   it may take a few tries to get the ingredients to taste how you like them, you can also add vanilla (but make sure it has no gluten or sugar in it, as most brands do)
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   Here is the blog called My Candida Recipes:
   https://doth.wordpress.com/2006/11/05/my…

   Just a word of caution: Read these recipes carefully to make sure they go with your diet. I notice in the chocolate chip recipe that she has "cheated" a little from the diet. Just be careful!

   Here is a website where you can go to order free candida diet recipes:
   http://candidapage.com/

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   I have the candida diet book, and I’ve seen all the restrictions. That’s why I said that my heart goes out to you. The one good thing about the diet (aside from ridding yourself of the candida) is the fact that the diet eventually comes to an end!!! I can’t begin to tell you how much I admire you for going on the diet. I know it isn’t easy.

   Good luck!