Greetings, Greetings!
Eric Bakker, New Zealand naturopath.
Author of Candida Crusher, and formulator of the CanXida range of supplements.
Thank you again for looking at my video.
"Grocery shopping tips after I no more have Candida?"
This is a question from a lady called June in Auckland, New Zealand.
So June wants to know-wants some tips on shopping once she's cleared up the yeast infection
basically.
Well, June, that's a great question.
Be very careful when you go shopping when you have Candida or haven't got Candida.
The key thing to look for is the kind of foods that you really go for/you crave/that you
desire.
You've probably heard many people say this before: "Don't go shopping when you're hungry
or on an empty stomach."
So usually eat some food first.
Don't go shopping when you're bored.
Be very careful because many people fall into this trap.
They will throw all kinds of stuff into their shopping trolley that they don't really want.
So what I tend to do when I go shopping is I chuck stuff in there and then halfway when
I go around I look at some stuff and I think: "Ah, do I really want that?"
I look around and okay, I'll just dump this over here.
I might chuck something somewhere.
I won't put frozen stuff in with the women's clothing or things like that, I wouldn't do
that.
Be very careful before you get to the checkout that what you've got is really what you want.
Think carefully about what you're buying, because it may not be the right stuff.
Good shopping tips for you are to preferably shop in places like farmer's markets.
These are outlets where people grow food and bring them.
You're bound to get a selection of high quality produce.
Also, I think it's worthy to tell you to go to good whole foods shops where people actually
sell lots of good healthy foods rather than to shop at the supermarkets per se.
Supermarkets are a good place to buy toilet paper or shampoo or stuff like that.
When it comes to real food, often you're not going to get really good quality green produce
like vegetables and fruits from supermarkets because many places they're trucked in from
very far away and they could be driven for hours or many miles, kept in refrigerated
vans, they could be picked two weeks ago.
I'll never forget once when I bought a big head of broccoli from a supermarket and I
put it in the vegetable crisper and then I had some broccoli out of the garden and I
had that in the refrigerator as well.
Now the head of broccoli that we bought at the supermarket-about three weeks later it
still looked okay.
The other one from the garden within four or five days it started to look all limp and
it didn't look good anymore.
So it just goes to show you the difference between stuff that's brought in from China
or who the hell knows where that broccoli came from.
I don't tend to ever buy any stuff like that from supermarkets.
I tend to grow most of my own food now.
If I can't grow it, I buy it from a place like a farmer's market or an organic grocery
store that sell certified organic vegetables and fruits.
We use no chemical pesticides at all with any of the stuff that we grow.
The stronger stuff I would use would be neem oil and dilute that down and spray that on
brassicas for example to discourage white butterflies.
A lot of produce that you buy in the supermarket could be peppered.
We've got a lady in New Zealand, every three or four years, she brings out a list called
The Dirty Dozen of the 12 most heavily sprayed items found in the supermarket in terms of
vegetables and fruits.
Celery ranks often number one.
Never ever buy celery from a grocery store that's conventional because it'll be sprayed
like crap.
The celery I grow in the garden is beautiful, crisp.
It's just so nice tasting, there's no chemicals on it.
The trick with celery-I'm going to do a lot of videos later on in the year about growing
food and producing food.
Celery's got to be crisp and crunchy.
It needs a lot of water and a lot of people often don't water crops enough and they get
all stale and bitter for that reason.
Pears was number two heavily sprayed.
There's a whole list which I'll bring out in a subsequent video where I'll talk about
the most heavily sprayed crops that you don't want to buy from any sort of conventional
outlets.
So, you've heard me say before when you go to a supermarket or grocery store, you generally
only buy stuff on the outer perimeter because that's where all the perishables are: Dairy
foods, meats, vegetables, fruits, they're all in the outer perimeters of the supermarket.
The stuff inside is all crap.
We're talking like stuff that's heavily processed in packets and bags and cans and stuff like
that.
The only thing I would buy in cans maybe for an emergency would be red kidney beans or
sardines or stuff like that.
Occasionally, I might buy some tinned tomatoes or tomato paste, but I don't really buy any
other things really in tin cans, because it's all crappy food.
Coconut cream maybe occasionally, but I wouldn't get anything else.
Try and shop in the perimeter if you are going to buy produce.
Preferably go to a really big organic health food store.
That's where you're going to get fresh stuff.
Nuts, seeds, pulses, grains, rice, buckwheat, quinoa.
You can buy these things bulk in high quality at these kinds of stores.
I store them in nice containers in a dark pantry and we turn them over quite regularly.
We buy kilograms of garbanzo beans for example.
I get the really big plump ones, soak them and then just simmer them.
We get brown basmati rice, we get adzuki beans.
We get kidney beans, lentils, split peas, things like that.
Those are the sort of things I buy to use a lot in cooking and it's a real pleasure
to be able to grow a lot of your own foods.
I encourage people to do that.
Even if you can only grow lettuce or tomatoes or some basic herbs.
Yesterday, I went out in the garden and I picked about two buckets of basil leaves.
We made a huge big pesto up with basil and parsley and walnuts and fresh garlic out of
the yard and olive oil.
It was a beautiful pesto.
I've got enough basil growing out there to make up a bathtub of pesto.
Pesto is delightful to have with some whole meal pasta.
Just put the pesto through it.
These are all things that you could do if you wanted to, June.
I'm not sure if you're inclined to make up some food yourself.
It's a real delight to be able to do that.
It's really tasty and it's healthy.
So try and get involved in that.
Other shopping tips I have for you is if you're going to buy bread, talk to the baker, because
quite often they will bake for you a nice rye sourdough bread.
Pumpernickel bread is quite nice, too.
The little black thick rye slices that you can get.
That black stuff.
I quite like that with a piece of cheese on top and some avocado.
That's quite a nice snack.
Sardines are not too bad.
You can get ones packed in spring water.
Not bad to buy.
A lot of people are down on these kind of canned fishes, but I'm not.
Again, if they're good quality.
There's not really a lot that you want to buy from your grocery store to be honest.
You may well have seen my Candida shopping list.
This is quite a good one for you to get a hold of.
You can get hold of this as part of our report if you click on the link below.
You'll find a lot more information about this in my book on shopping tips.
You can see the point I'm trying to make here.
If you are going to go to a conventional supermarket, I would discourage you to buy vegetables and
fruits there.
Prefer you to go to a farmer's market or a local grower.
Check to see what kind of chemicals they use, or preferably a farmer's market as I said
three or four times because often these guys will not use a whole bunch of chemicals or
grow your own stuff.
Meats, again, you can often get from butchers for example or people here that do home kill
so you can get meat that's very clean.
If you shop around on the internet, you can get poultry that's free-range.
Spend a bit more, but you're going to get a high quality.
Free-range eggs.
Free-range poultry.
Free-range lamb.
Plenty of that here in New Zealand.
Beef, all those sorts of things.
Fish again is a very important part of my diet.
Fish you should be able to get ahold at a good price if you know the right people.
So those are some shopping tips I'll throw at you.
Try and establish a network of people that you know that deal with high quality produce.
Keep them on your mobile phone.
Write them down, a list of these people.
Be in regular touch.
They'll often contact you when they get something through and you can either freeze that.
So there you have it.
That's a few shopping tips.
Try and get away from the conventional stuff that everybody does.
Going to the grocery store, buying crappy foods and making crappy dishes with crappy
processed foods.
You are what you eat.
It's very important.
So without any more raving on, I think that's given you enough the, June.
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