The How To Cure Candida Experiment - Week 3

Wow!
Only one more week to go before we can start back on some real foods!

Yipee!

I have already begun stocking up on a few whole grain items to boost the meals up.

I did look at buying some specialty whole grains like amaranth, quinoa and buckwheat - but boy oh boy...I think we will just 'tai hoa' on them for a while - I don't know what their price is in other parts of the world, but down here they are about ten times more expensive than regular stuff - so we will just stick to regular brown rice, whole grain pasta, chickpeas and lentils ;o)

Our diet is still the same - scrambled eggs, stir fry/salad rotation but we managed to knock off one of our 'pets' last weekend so have added lean lamb to the fish and chicken 'sides'.
(Don't look now, but we may just about have a menu to choose from!)

Our antifungals for the week are; Pau D' Arco Tea and Olive Leaf extract

We dumped the psyllium enzyme fibre shake as soon as the container was finished - super yeuck that one - we were both spending all day picking pieces of husk out of our mouths!

Our new fibre shake is just a straight flax seed one. We aren't going to worry about the enzyme portion for now. One of the foods that we will try next week will be kiwifruit and they are really high in digestive enzymes so that will be a nice change!

Find of the week;
Our find of the week has to be a bread that we got from the supermarket - it has no yeast, no gluten, no sugar, no wheat.......well, you get the picture! Raw it is absolutely gross, but toasted for about 6 minutes? Ahhhhh, bliss.

1 slice toasted with cottage cheese and cinnamon on (me) or salmon on (Phil) and we are set for the night! It is also darned fine with hummus on.

The best part is that it has 3 different flavors - rice, chia and raisin (I know no raisen bread....yet!)

Social Call;

We went to Phil's sisters over the weekend and had the forethought to do two things

1. make it an afternoon tea visit (we ate a big lunch before we went) and
   
2. take our own rice crackers and hummus.

This worked really well for three reasons;

• We didn't arrive empty handed,
• Everyone loved the rice crackers and hummus - we knew they would (just as well we bought two packets) and
• Phil's sister was relieved 'cause she knew that we were on some diet and didn't know what to offer us for food, so she had felt like a bad hostess for not offering anything!

Bit of a win win that!

We also had coffee group this week (something that Moms with preschoolers do down here) and the rice crackers were the stars again.