Embrace your Inner List making Obsession

Could not be more pleased with my new "Shopping" Notes

Don't forget to splurge a little and get a cute little notepad for grocery shopping it makes list making even more fun than it already is, everyone's a list maker at heart! --Embrace it!








Going shopping for anything has to be one of my favorite pastimes.  I can't argue, I like spending money.  So when I started grocery shopping I was pretty stoked for the chance to spend money and feel good about it because it was going to be used.  That was until I needed to buy Anti-candida food on a weekly basis with a tiny budget. I started out spending anywhere from $40 to $50 a week, now I have whittled it down to about $20. The following is a typical shopping list for a weeks worth of food. 

Spinach $1.99
1 Cucumber $.50
Baby Carrots $2.30
Zucchini $.79
Buckwheat $4.99*
Millet $3.78*
Amaranth $8.29*
Brown Rice Puffs $2.50*
Brown Rice $1.00
Almonds $2.00
Walnuts $1.50
Eggs* $3.99
Almond Breeze unsweetened Almond Milk* $2.80
Plain Greek Yogurt $2.61
Frozen Blueberries $2.60
Frozen greenbeans $1.08
2 chicken legs from New Seasons $3.99
1 can of Tuna packed in water  $.83
Goat Cheese* $6.99

*These items generally last more than a week. 

Something to note, these are the foods that do not upset my stomach or my gut flora, but everyone is different foods that might be ok for you, won't be ok for me, vice versa.  So while carrots may not be the best food for the diet, they don't negatively affect me and they have good nutritional value so I eat them.  However avocados upset my stomach even though they are on the list of allowed foods (which I will post soon).  Asparagus, Avocados, Celery, and Tomatoes are all allowed and cheap. 

Graduating with Tricks and Tips

Almost a College Graduate!

Got this card after work today, it shows all the hard work, dedication, and determination I have had over the past two (well four) years of college (and part of high school) now I am glad to be in the finishing stretch of my Bachelors Degree.






I started this blog a year and a half ago with the hope that I would be able to blog about each and every adventure I had on the Anti-candida diet.  Not soon, did I realize this diet isn't the most fun.  Now that I have persevered and am coming to my college graduation in a few short months, I figured there is going to be some helpless guy or gal out there venturing off to college on this anti-candida diet without any idea of how to live just like I was a year and a half ago.

Thus,  I begin to spread my wealth of knowledge!

Over the past year I've come to the point most college students come to at least once where they literally have no food in the pantry and a few dollars in their wallet.  On this diet, which really requires some money, not just a little college student kind of money, I have learned how to buy and cook cheap--but healthy.

So here's to new beginnings and a graduate's guide to the Anti-Candida diet. 

P.S.

I no longer HAVE to be on this diet, however I choose to mostly be on this diet because it makes me feel brighter, happier, filled of energy and healthy! Take your choice whatever it is, and I have some tips for you.