Stevia!

Stevia is awesome. I think I'm going to keep using it once I'm "finished" this anti-candida diet. I've really learned a lot just in the past few weeks about how I can change my diet to be a lot healthier all around I think. Hazelnut butter is awesome too. It pretty much tastes like nutella (which makes sense, since hazlenuts are the nuts used in nutella... ) except, of course, without the chocolate. But I don't miss the chocolate, so no problem!

Again, I'm going to be tempted over the next few weeks though. A friend is coming to visit from Austria and she told me she's bringing chocolate! Plus, I want to have her over (she's not staying with me) for pancakes and drinks (not at the same time) but I won't be able to have any! That is, of course, unless the buckwheat pancakes I try making tonight are delicious enough to serve to other people. I tried making them last week, but couldn't get the key ingredient - buckwheat flour - so I substituted quinoa flour. They were disgusting. They were mushy, and tasted like quinoa mixed with something bitter. The only thing that made it even a little bit edible was putting plain yogurt on it, but then it was more like a savoury dish than a pancake. Not good when you're craving pancakes.

This morning though, I made poached eggs and put them on rice cakes. It works well if you let the eggs cool a bit before putting them on the rice cakes - otherwise the rice cakes mush down to nothing. I used apple cider vinegar, since it seems to be allowed according to most of the information I've found, and they turned out pretty good (especially considering I'd never made poached eggs directly in water before; my mom has a special pot with plastic cups for them, and I've never made them with anything but that before). Anyway, I'll definitely be having that breakfast again soon!