Day 6 - Candida Diet

On day six my family and I went on a two mile hike, which left me starving most of the day. I did add a few appropriate snacks to help with the hunger. 

Breakfast: Detox Drink and Eggs over Tomatoes 
Lunch: Green Smoothie and Quinoa Stuffed Bell Peppers
Dinner: No Bake Zucchini Lasagna

Recipes

Eggs over Tomatoes - Serves 1 to 2
1 large slice of tomato
1 egg poached 
1/2 avocado
3 tbsp. water
Juice of 1/2 lemon
1 clove garlic

1:Rinse tomato and cut into 1/4” thick slices
2:Place the meat of 1/2 avocado into a food processor, add lemon juice, 1 glove of garlic and 3 tablespoons of water
3:Blend until a thick and creamy sauce is made
4:Place an egg poacher onto a frying pan over medium heat. Break egg into the poacher and pour 1/4 cup of water into the frying pan.Cover and cook for 4-6 minutes
5:Serve by stacking the egg on a tomato slice and generously spread the avocado sauce over the combination. Season with pepper to taste

Green Smoothie - Serves 1
1 tomato
1 stalk of celery
4 large spinach leaves
1/2 cup parsley

1:Put all ingredients in a high speed blender and blend until desired consistency is reached

Quinoa Stuffed Bell Peppers - Serves 2
1 medium onion, chopped
1 tbsp coconut oil
1 tbsp ground cumin
2 cloves garlic, minced
1 jalapeno, seeded and chopped
15 oz can diced tomatoes, drained liquid reserved
3/4 cup quinoa
1.5 cups water
1 cup pepper Jack Cheese
4 large red bell peppers, halved lengthwise, ribs removed
salt and pepper

1:Preheat oven to 350˚F
2:In a saucepan, heat coconut oil over medium heat. Sauté onion, celery and jalapeno until soft, about 5 minutes.
3:Add cumin and garlic and cook for an another minute. Stir in drained tomatoes (reserving liquid) and cook for 5 minutes until most of the liquid has evaporated.
4:Stir in quinoa and 1 1/2 cups water. Cover and bring to a boil. Reduce heat to medium-low and simmer until quinoa is tender, about 20 minutes. Stir in 1 cup of cheese and season with salt and pepper, if desired.
5:Pour reserved liquid from tomatoes in the bottom of your baking dish.
6:Fill each halved bell pepper with 3/4 cup quinoa mixture and place in baking dish. Cover with foil and bake for 40 minutes.
7:Transfer stuffed bell peppers onto serving dish and drizzle pan juices

No Bake Zucchini Lasagna - Serves 4
1 cup pine nuts
1 clove garlic, chopped
1/8 cup fresh lemon juice
1.5 cups cherry or grape tomatoes
2 tbsp extra virgin olive oil
1/2 tsp ground oregano
1/2 tsp salt
1/4 tsp dried rosemary
3 to 4 zucchini, trimmed, halved crosswise and thinly sliced lengthwise
2 to 3 beefsteak tomatoes, thinly sliced width wise
1/4 cup pitted black olives

1:In a small food processor or powerful blender combine the pine nuts, garlic and salt, process into a fine powder. Add lemon juice and 1/8 cup of water to process until thick and creamy
2:In a blender combine tomatoes extra virgin olive oil, oregano, salt and rosemary
3:Arrange the lasagna by spreading half of the zucchini over the bottom, followed by half the tomatoes, the pine nut mix, the sauce and olives. Repeat with remaining ingredients in this order and serve

Reactions

Food: I am not a fan of poached eggs. For breakfast I fried the eggs and added everything on top. At lunchtime I made the Raw and Fresh Pad Thai Salad from day five. It was really good. I ended up cooking all of it and the flavors were really nice. I would eat this again. Dinner was the no bake zucchini lasagna. I forgot to buy pine nuts so I just layered everything and ate it together without the pine nut sauce. It was really tasty. I had 12 cups of water today. I mentioned that I added some snacks. They were almonds and two pieces of turkey deli meat.

Body: I am feeling pretty good. As I mentioned above, we went on a family hike yesterday morning. With the little people we couldn't do anything strenuous. It was a lot of fun. I didn't get very tired but I did get hungry the rest of the day. 

I am noticing with the amounts of water I am getting each day that I haven't had to use lip balm. I live in a very dry climate so lip balm is ma must but I haven't needed it. My headaches come and go. They are getting less frequent and less intense. 

Oh! I keep forgetting to mention this. I didn't have a BM until Friday (day 5). Nothing...all...week. Which is strange for me. Eating the way I am, I expected it to be a "multiple times a day" thing. I've had a BM each day since Friday (which, I know, has just been a couple of days but I am happy things are "moving").