Greetings.
Eric Bakker, New Zealand naturopath, author of Candida Crusher and formulator of the CanXida
range of products.
Thanks for checking out my video.
We're going to talk about some great snack ideas for people with Candida.
I'm looking at a Candida website and the snack ideas include stuff like quinoa, falafel with
Tzatziki sauce, all sorts of flash things.
Coconut flour, crackers with grissini.
Who the hell is going to make this stuff and have time to make it?
Pumpkin seed nut energy bars or something like this.
These things take hours to make.
Many people who look at these recipes get quite overwhelmed by the ingredients.
You know the rules with Candida.
You've got to avoid sugars.
You've got to avoid crappy foods, soda drinks and things like that.
There are a ton of snack ideas and a lot of them are quite easy.
When I was at the airport recently coming back from the States, I was hunting around.
I was really hungry and I was hunting around for a snack idea.
I found this one cabinet in the refrigerator and it just had a plastic tray.
It had celery.
It had carrots.
It had olives.
It had a small dip in it with God knows what was in it and it had a lot of other stuff
in there in that cabinet as well.
It had white bread.
It had donuts and cans of Coke and crap like that.
All the things that I don't eat.
The little raw snacky things were very good to eat.
Those are the sort of things I like people to eat for snack foods.
Generally, snack foods are something that you want to quickly get and eat.
You don't want to spend an hour making them in the kitchen like Tzatziki sauce with all
this sort of fancy stuff.
Who's got time to do all that?
Maybe you have.
Maybe you're not like me.
You've got hours and hours to spend in the kitchen making up all these crazy things.
When we think of snacks, we're thinking of things you can eat really quick and fast that
don't contain a lot of artificial ingredients and sugars.
For that reason, I look at things like avocado, raw unsalted, unroasted nuts.
There are many you can get.
We're talking maybe 10 almonds or three Brazil nuts.
We're talking a small amount of roasted sesame seeds with salt.
Very nice snack.
Easy to make.
We're talking a green apple.
We're talking some cucumber.
We're talking some carrots.
There are many things in your crisper that you can take out and cut up and use.
Dips you can't go wrong with are guacamole and hummus.
Hummus is easy to make with some tahini sauce, with some chick peas, a bit of garlic, a bit
of pepper and salt.
Very simple to make a bowl of that kind of stuff.
Very, very nice to have as a dip with all kinds of things.
I like raw asparagus, for example, nice with hummus dip.
And guacamole with avocado.
You should know how to make that.
It's very, very simple.
It's a great dip to have with many different types of things.
If you go to a health food shop, you'll often find different types of cracker that you can
have.
Little cakes, rice cakes, and there are coconut crackers and many different things that you
can get that are snacks.
You just have to look and get a few bags of those and have them in your pantry.
A combination of those snacky healthy gluten-free crackers, different nuts and seeds, different
vegetables cut up, fish like sardines or a bit of salmon.
You might even want to get a little can with some fish in it like some sardines.
Those are very handy snacks to have and they're quick.
They don't take hours and hours of work to do.
You've got a lot of options.
Many options you've got.
So don't think that you can't snack when you've got a Candida problem.
You can.
You just have to avoid a lot of commercial junk in the supermarket.
Let's go over that list again.
Nuts, except peanuts.
Watch out for those.
Health food shop will put you on the right track.
You can have containers with different nuts in them.
Pecans, walnuts, hazel nuts, Brazils and almonds are my favorite.
Seeds, roasted seeds are quite nice.
You can roast them up.
You can even get puffed millet.
Millet can be puffed up.
They can be made into little crackers or cookies.
Vegetables.
There's a ton of those that you can have cut up and eat raw, but the ones I particularly
like are cucumber, carrot, celery.
Fruits, avocado, very tasty to have.
You've got dips.
You've got hummus and you've got the guacamole.
There's no doubt a lot of other stuff I haven't even covered.
Keep it simple.
You'll find if you keep those things in the refrigerator and in your pantry, you'll always
have something to snack on if you're hungry.
If you don't buy crap, you don't eat crap.
Simple as that.
Thanks for tuning in.