Coconut Water
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We love it too - the entire family.
We buy green coconuts and put a straw in them. Around $250 per coconut but if you are buying it in bottles it could be cheaper. Certainly not a Lt in each coconut - probably closer to 250ml.
I tried the bottled stuff, kids and husband won't touch it, the fact that it's been commercialised from it's natural state and put into bottles (like every other food) to me is a bit of a put off. It's more emotional because we know nothing has been added to it.
We have a very simple diet - mainly meat and veg and very little refined, packaged and commercialised foods.
Our younger girls love pasta every now and then, but my husband, myself, and teenage son who is now into body building (kind of - at least he just wants to look good) will rarely have it.
I find it amazing that gaining weight is not as much of an issue with a clean diet irrespective of calories - just our experience, our entire family is a low percentile weight.
We buy green coconuts and put a straw in them. Around $250 per coconut but if you are buying it in bottles it could be cheaper. Certainly not a Lt in each coconut - probably closer to 250ml.
I tried the bottled stuff, kids and husband won't touch it, the fact that it's been commercialised from it's natural state and put into bottles (like every other food) to me is a bit of a put off. It's more emotional because we know nothing has been added to it.
We have a very simple diet - mainly meat and veg and very little refined, packaged and commercialised foods.
Our younger girls love pasta every now and then, but my husband, myself, and teenage son who is now into body building (kind of - at least he just wants to look good) will rarely have it.
I find it amazing that gaining weight is not as much of an issue with a clean diet irrespective of calories - just our experience, our entire family is a low percentile weight.
One of my children loves coconut water too, but only from the coconut. I have purchased coconut water in the bottle but didn't like it--perhaps I bought the wrong brand. I buy coconuts, but it's a bit of a hassle to open them.
http://www.med.monash.edu/cecs/gastro/fodmap/diet-updates/coconut.html
High in Polyols not fructans by the looks of it. People with IBS should avoid it.
And did Xenia say she pays $250 per coconut...
$2.50 - dot missed
That is exactly what my daughter said.
I also buy coconuts, but same, too much like hard work.
http://www.taste.com.au/kitchen/articles/three+c+s+are+they+low+fodmap+,425
I can't have coconut water, but I can have coconut cream (see above link).
I can't have any milk at all, so I use coconut cream a fair bit as an alternative. Has to be that Ayam coconut cream though, the other ones have other crap in them like wheat I think which is high in fructans and makes me sick.
I do up a coconut cream chocolate shake which is pretty awesome.
Cocoa powder (dairy free) 1 heaped tablespoon, 2-3 tablespoons brown sugar, enough boiling water to disolve everything, stir it together, throw in a handful of icecubes then 3 heaped tablespoons of coconut cream, stir it around a lot, add a lot of water so it's a good consistency, stir it some more, add some more icecubes if needed = awesome dairy free chocolate shake. One of the few fodmap friendly things that I've found normal people actually think is nice
I can't have coconut water, but I can have coconut cream (see above link).
I can't have any milk at all, so I use coconut cream a fair bit as an alternative. Has to be that Ayam coconut cream though, the other ones have other crap in them like wheat I think which is high in fructans and makes me sick.
I do up a coconut cream chocolate shake which is pretty awesome.
Cocoa powder (dairy free) 1 heaped tablespoon, 2-3 tablespoons brown sugar, enough boiling water to disolve everything, stir it together, throw in a handful of icecubes then 3 heaped tablespoons of coconut cream, stir it around a lot, add a lot of water so it's a good consistency, stir it some more, add some more icecubes if needed = awesome dairy free chocolate shake. One of the few fodmap friendly things that I've found normal people actually think is nice
