Anti Candida Chocolate Treats

What on earth can I eat when I’m on the Anti Candida Diet and I feel like . . . CHOCOLATE?!

It’s been a hard day at work or at home, and you have had it. You’ve decided that this time you are just going to break free and do it. You don’t care what the consequences are.

You are heading, right now, to the nearest source of chocolate that you can find. You don’t care if it breaks your anti candida diet. You are sick of it any way.

Before you kick the vending machine it on or hold up the chocolate shop sales person, we have some good recipes for you, whether or not you are the sudden craving type, or you just would like to know if there is a candida friendly way to eat some chocolate (that doesn’t involve paying huge amounts for boutique all natural chocolate, or buying chocolate that although free from sugar is still full of preservatives, not to mention artificial sweeteners).

These recipes are rich and fairly sweet and they make a great treat that is candida friendly.

Chocolate Ice-cream
Ingredients (per person)
1 ripe banana
Cocoa (to taste)
Honey (to taste)

Mash the banana with a teaspoon of honey to start. Add a tea spoon of cocoa and mix well. Test for taste. Add more cocoa if a stronger flavour is desired, or more honey if not sweet enough. Or more of both to make it more chocolatey and sweeter. Then freeze until semi frozen, take out and stir (to break up the ice crystals) and return to the freezer until wanted.

Hot or Cold Chocolate.
Ingredients (per serve)
1 ripe banana
1 heaped teaspoon of cocoa (or more to taste)
1 heaped tablespoon of honey (or more or less to taste)
Enough hot or cold water to make up a cup (or milk if you are not on a particularly strict level of the candida diet)
Cinnamon and nutmeg – ½ to ¼ teaspoon of each if desired – makes it spicy.

Place all ingredients in the blender and blend until combined.

About the ingredients in these recipes.
Neither of these recipes contain sugar – the big enemy of the anti candida diet.
Cocoa powder is low in fat and an excellent anti oxidant. It is good for you, in other words, it is the company that it is normally found in that is the problem, so cocoa is a great ingredient to include in the anti candida diet.
Honey – honey is an allowed sweetener on the anti candida diet. It has antibiotic properties, and it is a whole food (as opposed to sugar which is so highly refined that it does not have any essential vitamins orminerals to help your body process it).
Bananas – great source of potassium and generally good for you.
Cinnamon and nutmeg – have anti microbial properties, also good for your digestion.

So- I thought with Halloween upon us, Thanksgiving on the way, and then Christmas you might enjoy these allowable treats. The ice cream can be made ahead and kept on hand for when you suddenly want a treat, and the drinks can be made on demand.