Re: Re:Re: Yeast,Yogurt & Honey

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You wrote:

" I am new to SCD. Although I don't have yeast infections, I have symptoms of yeast overgrowth (coated tongue, eczema, cold hands/feet, ,runny nose, IBS, brain fog, shedding hair, dark circles under my eyes etc). I read the files here on yeast.> I have started making goat milk yogurt but can't tolerate the taste without honey. I am wondering-does the yeast fighting benefit of the yogurt outweigh the yeast feeding honey that I'm eating with the yogurt"

I get tired of the taste of honey--I only like certain honeys and found by accident that the yogurt tastes really good when you add different spices. I have some Iranian friends and they make a cucumber salad that consists of cubed cucumber, salted, yogurt and a lot of fresh ground black pepper. So, when my Dad brought me his incredible Jersey tomatoes last summer( I live in RI, the tomatoes just don't taste like Jersey tomatoes) I cut them in wedges, generously salted them, poured the yogurt over them and put fresh ground pepper and a little of my home made ground hot pepper spice. I thought I had died and gone to heaven! I do the same with cukes. Sometimes I just add salt and pepper and ground basil and eat it plain like that without veggies.

When I made goat yogurt, I found it was runnier, but was also bland in taste because the local farm I got it from didn't allow the goats to eat anything funkier than grass and straw. I know that sometime goat's milk can be very strong with the flavors of what the animals have been allowed to graze on. If that is the case, perhaps dripping it into cheese and adding garlic, scallions and herbs may make it more palatable to you? Sp perhaps exploring a savory tasting honey may be the route for you rather than a sweetened one? My next experiment will be to add bleu cheese and spices to make a salad, veggie dressing/dip.

I also use saccharin to sweeten my yogurt smoothies, some people may object to artificial sweetners, but it doesn't bother me. There is a honey allergy in my house and the saccharin has no after taste for me.

Terry

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