Living Candida-Free: 100 Recipes and a 3-Stage Program to Restore Your Health and Vitality Kindle Edition

Buying Ricki Heller's book Living Candida Free and joining her Sweet Life community was the single best thing I have ever done for my health. After cooking for 4 boys for over 20 years, I was burned out and decided I was going to go the route of very simple meals. Many of those meals were to grab a fast (organic, but still processed) veggie burger or something similar. Recently, I became very sick to the point of lying on the couch and watching a movie was a huge effort! After 5 weeks of being sick, I went to my ND and she diagnosed Candida and suggested I go on the "Anti-Candida Diet". After looking at all the things I couldn't have, I was despondent. Seriously, "This was NOT going to be fun AT ALL", I thought. I went online and looked at the different books on this diet. After reading the reviews on the books, I decided to buy Living Candida Free because many people said it was EASY to understand. (And, it *definitely* was!) At the same time, I joined Ricki's group, The Sweet Life. There, I found support not only from Ricki, but also from a group of people that were going through the same process as I was. Best of all, when you join the group you have access to TONS of extra recipes.I started making recipes from the book, followed the diet strictly, and within one week I was feeling AMAZING!!! I could not believe the difference in just one week! Three weeks after starting the diet, I jump out of bed, can't wait to start cooking and have more energy than I have had in years! The biggest thing is that I feel I am eating better than I have in my life with incredible tasting meals! I don't feel I am being deprived of anything at all. In fact, my body is responding so positively to this way of eating, I can't imagine going back to processed foods and sugary desserts. I am slowly making my way through the recipes and OMG are they DELICIOUS!!! Pizza? It's in there. "Chocolate" pudding? It's in there. "Sun dried" tomatoes? Ketchup? Cookies? It's ALL there!!! THANK YOU, Ricki Heller, for writing this book and others, and for your amazing Sweet Life group! You have changed my life for the better!!

I found this book to be a little to no more helpful than her website. You could probably get most of the information and some recipes from her site. I think my biggest complaint was the layout of the book. As a working mom who still needs to cook a separate meal for my family, I didn't find this layout and flow at all helpful. I can see if you don't have kids or if you are only making these meals for yourself that this flow would be ok. I'm pressed for time and have a lot more to cook after these meals.1. I feel this book was laid out in Word and bounded as a book. There's no design to it, no breaking things apart, and no color coding. The flow is always a brief description, then the ingredients, then the steps, and then the notes. There are page breaks in the middle of the recipes. It makes it awkward for reading while cooking. The "notes" are always at the bottom. Never close to the asterisk. Yes, a minor thing but you're also flipping back and forth to read due to the page breaks. It's hard to read and work with a cook book like this when there are sooo many good cookbooks out there that break things apart and make them visually pleasing and easy to scan.2. A meal plan is provided but no shopping list. How great would it be just to rip that page out and go shopping without spending a good chunk of time reading through all those recipes?3. A meal prep cheat sheet would be awesome! As someone who doesn't soak and dry my nuts and legumes, I wasn't fully prepared for this. I'd like to see more instructions on the meal plans that say, "You'll be eating 3 servings of x so start soaking these on this day so you're ready to cook right away!"4. I don't feel this has been updated with products that have come on the market since it's publication in 2015 nor are there product substitution ideas.5. I never felt full unless I ate a ridiculous amount of food and the taste was always very off for me. I didn't come from a SAD diet, so it wasn't that I was missing the taste of highly processed food and sugar, I was eating Paleo before this and the only thing I cut out was meat and fruit. After 10 days on the Vegan track I had to add meat back in which I know she stated was ok to do.Overall it's an ok book with lots of room for layout improvement to make it easier for those adapting to some new ways of cooking. I am truly impressed with her recipe testing and the things that she uses to make dishes. I'd read through some of them and think there was no way that would work and it does. Ricki is a true recipe creator and that's really impressive to me.I'm not sure I'd recommend this to others. I took the principles she taught and found other paleo authors I liked and knew I liked the taste of their food and adapted. It wasn't too hard to adapt, I just had to know which ingredients I had to omit from the recipes and make it work.

did not realize it was a vegetarian version. Many product Not sure what they were. Had to research and has lots of soy products which should not be on a candida diet. Has good reference information though and does indicate each persons diet will be different.

This is an amazing book and I'd highly recommend it to anyone dealing with candida. I have to say that I was pleasantly surprised to find that this book isn't just a cookbook (although I would have been fine if it had been). In addition to the great recipes, the book touches upon a variety of information regarding candida (what it is, how to best fight the condition, how to deal with various cravings that might occur once switching to an ACD, etc.)The author has made what seemed like an impossible feat (switching to an anticandida diet) possible in my life. I really appreciate Dr. Heller writing about her own personal stories and struggles amongst all of the great information she has provided. Oh, and let me take a second to simply talk about the recipes. My mouth literally salivates after reading each one!Thank you, Dr. Heller for all that you do. You are amazing.

This book is chopped full of amazing recipes to help your body heal and get you back on track to a healthy new life style. Ricki does a fabulous job with each recipe, making sure it's easy to understand and giving options for ingredients as well as helping you know where to find specific ingredients that aren't easily found in your grocery store. If you are suffering with a candida overgrowth, this cookbook is a staple on your bookshelf because you will need to learn how to eat in a whole new way which can be overwhelming. I highly recommend this cookbook to anyone starting the candida diet or anyone who just wants to get healthy.

I was really hopeful for this book but I found that almost every single recipe was way too complex with a massive list of ingredients that most kitchens just would not have. In addition, almost every recipe, including the savoury dishes, contained stevia, a natural sweetener. I am no expert but I thought that the whole point of the candida diet was to encourage people to lose their sweet tooth. There is little research on the safety and implications of using stevia but adding a sweetener to almost every dish goes against my instinct about what might be right on this diet. Maybe this might be good for someone who has been on the diet for a long time and is desperately seeking a sweet alternative. Overall, I just found the book to be too burdensome and impractical to be helpful. Still looking for a really good practical cookbook with breakfast and gluten/yeast free bread options.

My son's girlfriend suffers from candida and spoke highly of the book. I bought it so I can understand the condition better and we can all have one family meal together without her having any discomfort or pain. I have given the book 4 out of 5 stars because I felt the quality of the print inside is somewhat wishy washy and lacking in vibrancy making it not very appealing.

Excellent notes to help people needing to deal with Candida. Only criticism is that there are very few pictures of recipes.

Very helpful and hallelujah! a vegan candida plan! :)Very detailed tips for how to deal with each phase of candida treatment and how to carry on afterwards.. also details natural antifungal treatments etc. Great book!

Great book!