Giving Your Kitchen a Facelift.
Step 1
Throw out the chips, crackers, granola bars, cookies, and other processed junk and plan to make kale chips or roasted veggies instead.
Step 4
Ditch the processed pasta (even whole grain), the soy, and the beans and replace them with zucchini noodles, spaghetti squash, and cauliflower rice. There are a few easily digestible beans you can keep, such as mung, lentils, and adzuki, but be sure to soak the beans to remove the phytic acid.
Step 2
Exchange or eliminate caffeine. Caffeine is pure acid and an acidic body leads to sickness and poor digestion. You can exchange coffee for yerba mate or green tea, which is rich in beneficial antioxidants. (Note: To trick your body into easing off of caffeine, mix it with a coffee substitute. Start by filling your cup with ½ regular coffee and ½ coffee substitute. Reduce the amount of coffee each day by ¼ until you are only drinking coffee substitute).
Step 5
Replace sugar with organic cane sugar, coconut crystals, coconut sugar, raw honey, high-quality maple syrup, monk fruit, or stevia (if you suffer from candida, use stevia regardless).
Step 3
Clean the fridge of sugary drinks like soda, tea, juices, and lemonade. Replace these with veggie and fruit-infused waters and herbal teas.
Step 6
Say goodbye to the fancy flours and grains like Kamut, bulgur, spelt, and barley, and replace them with coconut flour, almond flour, and arrowroot. Enjoy seed-like grains such as buckwheat, quinoa, and amaranth.
Step 7
Anything with wheat or gluten causes bloating, mucus in the stool, and weakened digestion. Read labels. If it contains gluten, throw it out and stock up on fresh fruits, veggies, nuts, and seeds.
Step 10
Make your own honey mustard by stirring in a tablespoon of raw honey, or for regular mustard, find one that does not contain sugar.
Step 8
Replace butter with coconut oil and ultra-pasteurized milk with homemade or store-bought nut milk or ghee.
Step 11
Instead of soy sauce, use Bragg’s Coconut Aminos.
Step 9
Make your own ketchup, or find an organic brand without high-fructose corn syrup. Note that this has vinegar and vinegar feeds yeast. (Note: If you have Candida, I highly discourage you from adding vinegar to your diet. This is very different than Bragg’s raw apple cider vinegar.
Step 12
Substitute table salt for pink Himalayan salt.
Step 13
For a healthy salad dressing, whisk together some raw honey, olive oil, and Bragg’s raw apple cider vinegar.
Step 14
Find great gadgets for your home that make eating veggies fun such as zucchini spiralizers.