Homemade Coconut Milk Recipe

Is there anything that could be used as a natural and safe preservative in the shampoo to help keep homemade coconut milk from spoiling in the shampoo.?

fantastic, thank you!

Always shake a hard coconut first to check for water. If it has no water, in all likely hood the coconut will be stale and rancid..unusable. For the coconut to be good, water must be present.

Many who have experienced dairy allergies or intolerances had them disappear when they switched to raw milk. Pasteurization creates free radicals which cause many damaging effects to our bodies and destroy the living enzymes found in raw milk. There is an effect called a pasteurization allergy. I myself experience painful cramping and bloating with pasteurized but nothing with raw. Raw milk can be beneficial in moderation.

There is a great website to for Raw Milk answers. Specifically, you can check out this article:

http://www.realmilk.com/health/raw-milk-protective-against-asthma-and-allergies/

Pasteurization is also used on Yogurt, Kefir and Kombucha which removes the beneficial nutrients these live cultures provide would normally provide you. Manufacturer’s re-add the cultures after the pasteurization process. These are likely a shadow of what the real culture provides you.

Federal Government requires Milk to be pasteurized which is tragic given the amazing nutrients in raw milk coupled with that of the live active cultures in yogurt and kefir.

Thankfully, these can also be made with nut milks and kefir has a water version. Kombucha is made with sweet black tea. Make it yourself and benefit from real nutrients that Uncle Sam would keep from you.

Well, that kind of spiraled off to something completely off topic, but there you have it.

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Actually, Almonds have the same thyroid troubling issues as kale. It makes me nervous seeing so many women thinking consuming so much of it is good for them.

Helen: Cows milk is not unhealthy. Try raw cows milk. You should read up on it. I grew up drinking cows milk and LOVED it, but It gave me mucus issues…..I recently went to see my daughter in California (Oregon doesn’t sell raw cows milk) and got raw cows milk: NO issues. Also get the A2 milk, as it is easier to digest or get lactose free which has enzymes to help with digestion if you can’t digest it naturally.

Many people have issues with some foods/drink, but that doesn’t mean they are bad for you or unhealthy! It just means that YOUR body can’t handle something in it, because you lack some form of enzyme to deal with it.

Over the years, MANY lies have been told about one food or another. Just a few years ago, coconut oil was damned because it was “SO UNHEALTHY”……well, not so.
Milk has gotten much publicity in recent years saying it is not good for you, unhealthy, BAD for you, etc. Mostly with the ‘discovery’ of nut milks like coconut, almond, even hemp and oat….(I don’t count soy, as soy is a hormone mimic and only fermented in small amounts is ok)

These ‘milks’ are trying to completely replace cows milk, and while I think they are good and nice to drink, and sometimes do drink them myself, will never replace (for me, at least) good old cows milk.

I actually have a machine that makes ‘alternative’ milk: Called the “Almond Cow”, it is expensive but makes such good stuff and the blog has many recipes for using the pulp right then to make breakfast or a snack.
So I’m not against nut or alternative milks, I just prefer cows milk, especially heavy cream. Coconut just doesn’t cut it for me… in the cream department.

In a recent large study in Scandinavia on the effect of dairy consumption on osteoporosis, it was found that not only did 3 or more glasses of milk not increase bone density, but that (and this was completely unexpected by researchers) drinking at least 3 glasses of milk resulted in the deaths of a large number of these women.

Referencing both the China Study and Forks Over Knives makes me very nervous. Both of these studies/reports are seen to be very flawed and some say flat out mis-information. At the very least, the information is controversial. Look into the opposing views of these two references. I don’t have time to type it up, but a possible resource for solid opposing viewpoints may be Dr. Kaayla Daniel’s website. I am with you though that milk can be a major problem for many modern westerners. But I tend to believe it has more to do with the fact that the milk we were mostly raised on was HIGHLY processed – not in its natural state. Because of this, many of us have developed sensitivities or reactions to milk – all milk – raw or grass-fed or not. I happen to love raw milk and my kids have never had any other type of cows milk (if I had to choose sbetween raw grass-fed milk or no milk though, it would be no milk). We mostly drink it in the form or raw kefir but have it as a treat in the sweet, fresh, straight from the jug state too. Yum! Raw cream ice cream? YEs please! If you look back anthropologically, many of the most successful, healthy, and long-living societies drank raw and cultured milk from their animals – the mountainous Swiss may have thrived MOSTLY on dairy! It is one of the ways I can tell that it may not be a problem with milk itself but how we as industrialized Westerners have come to interact with milk. That said, we all have different genetics, have ancestors in different parts of the world, and it also seems reasonable to me that some of us are more LIKELY to thrive on cows milk than other, just as some of us are more LIKEYLY to suffer from it. THat said, mix it up! I also love coconut milk!!! ….especially not from a can!

Anna,

Could you please post the recipe for Chocolate Syrup using Coconut Sugar?

Thank you so very much!

Could you please post links to this study?