Coconuts never fail to amaze me! Over the last months, I've been increasingly eating more and more coconuts being back on the Big Island of Hawaii. Also, we had a BIG harvest of about 50 coconuts right on the piece of land where I am living. At first having all this fresh, needing-to-be-processed meat was overwhelming. Overwhelming because my body only wanted the water, and I felt stressed about wasting any of the precious white coconut meat that is found in older coconuts.
My discovery of eating consistently older coconut meat has inspired me to write down a list of all the foods I'm creating with coconuts. I am learning to FULLY embrace whatever stage the coconut is in, because this particular raw, local, organic food creates an enormous variety of foundational foods found in the human diet.
Here's the List:
Older Meat:
-Coconut Oil
-Rich smoothie base
-Very sugary, refreshing alkaline water
-Toasted coconut croutons (taste just like bacon bits)
-Coconut Rice (just the coconut meat fiber)
-Coconut ice cream (good cream to use as ice cream base)
-Toasted coconut fiber (good to add to yogurt or granola)
-Coconut Milk
-Coconut Mac n Cheese (use coconut meat or coconut milk instead of regular milk)
-Thai-style Coconut soup
-Thick coconut salad dressing
-Raw coconut curry cold soup
Younger Coconuts:
-Best-ever water for fasting or enjoying in the hot sun
-Vegan egg whites
-GREAT for smoothie
-The young meat is like vanilla jelly.
I'm sure I'll still keep discovering new uses of coconuts-- and I'll let ya know! Bye for me :)
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