[Nervous]

Alas, my local whole foods did not have the So Delicious cultured coconut milk drink. They just had the regular, non-probiotic-fortified coconut milk.

[mrsD]

I have one more suggestion...

There is another digestive issue, that causes gas, bloating and diarrhea... it is fructose intolerance.

Most of the yogurts have sugars in them. Even the Kefir flavored ones. One in 3 people have fructose intolerance and will react to the sugars in the foods you eat. It can be very difficult to nail this. If some sugar is consumed with food, it can blunt the reaction. But when taken ALONE, that is when a reaction is more likely to happen and be identified.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fructose_malabsorption

I would expect the coconut milk yogurt to be difficult for fructose intolerant people. One hint, that can be historical is an intolerance to apples, apple juice and pears. In fact had I known this years ago, I would have been more comfortable myself. I cannot eat pears... never have been able to tolerate apple juices either! I discovered this for myself a few years ago. Since then I've avoided my triggers and have been much better.

For yogurt I use Carbmaster, from Kroger's, which has only 4 grams of sugar. I use the unflavored Kefir.

[MelodyL]

Hi all.

Just came back from the store. They had coconut milk, all the other kinds of non-dairy milk and then I spotted the LIfeway Kefir, on sale for $2.79.

Grabbed it.

That should last me 4 or 5 days.

All those good probiotics. Not that I need any, I'm doing just fine, I just like to have GOOD stuff in my body.

Because once you are used to eating sprouts and vitamixing your stuff (made a coffee cake yesterday using my vitamix) not for me, I had to go visit someone, well, I like to try all good stuff now.

Each and every day I discover something new and wonderful for my body, my digestive system, my blood and my arteries.

Turning 64 on November 4th. Don't care how long it took me to get there but I'm getting there.

And I go to the dentist every 6 months to get a cleaning and so far, no diabetes in my gums or mouth. The dental hygienist said "Melody, you have NO idea what we see in gums with people who are diabetic"

Never knew this.

Never knew lots of things.

Learning.

Will continue to learn until I drop

lol

Melody

[mrsD]

Lucky you Melody..... At Kroger's here the unflavored Kefir, is
$3.89 a quart, and the organic is a dollar more.

It is certainly worth it to me however.

Make sure you shake well ...as it gets thick on the bottom.
Also when I pour out the last bit, I put in some water in the bottle, and
rinse and consume that. I also rinse out my cup and drink that. So as not to waste any!

[MelodyL]

Originally Posted by mrsD

Lucky you Melody..... At Kroger's here the unflavored Kefir, is
$3.89 a quart, and the organic is a dollar more.

It is certainly worth it to me however.

Make sure you shake well ...as it gets thick on the bottom.
Also when I pour out the last bit, I put in some water in the bottle, and
rinse and consume that. I also rinse out my cup and drink that. So as not to waste any!

I wonder, Can I put, let's say, a half cup of this kefir, a teaspoon of my cocoa powder, and a tiny dash of wheatgrass powder and make myself a power smoothie.

My sugar was 87 this morning and 133 post prandial so I'm good in that department. I wonder what making a concoction like that would be like for my body.

Good Lord, I'm turning into Jack Lalanne!!!

lol

And let me exclaim to the world that I thing TEMPEH is the best thing since the invention of chocolate mousse. Oh my god, the meals one can make with this little rectangle thing.

I cut it into cubes and freeze little portions and the protein and because it's NOT Tofu, it doesn't have any estrogen effects on the body like too much Tofu would have because it's a fermented product.

See what I've learned from my various online buddies. lol

Mel

[mrsD]

Yes, you can add to it, Melody. I've tried cinnamon in the beginning, when I was so sick. After about 3 days I got used to the plain, and stopped adding it.

No reason you can't jazz it up... might lose some in the vitamix container, but that would be all. You could add fruit etc, flax oil, or lecithin granules, or cocoa. The cocoa might lump up unless you mix it in something to suspend it first. Fine powders can clump up, but my cinnamon didn't. (people typically don't use much cinnamon however).

[MelodyL]

Originally Posted by mrsD

Yes, you can add to it, Melody. I've tried cinnamon in the beginning, when I was so sick. After about 3 days I got used to the plain, and stopped adding it.

No reason you can't jazz it up... might lose some in the vitamix container, but that would be all. You could add fruit etc, flax oil, or lecithin granules, or cocoa. The cocoa might lump up unless you mix it in something to suspend it first. Fine powders can clump up, but my cinnamon didn't. (people typically don't use much cinnamon however).

If I do this later, I'll make a video and we shall see my new concoctions.

Every morning now I make Alan a fresh orange wheatgrass smoothie and he doesn't taste the wheatgrass. I just toss in a whole orange (unpeeled of course), add a tiny bit of wheatgrass (and sometimes I add some pineapple) and in less than 60 seconds he has all the nutrition of that drink.

No more bottled or canned juices in this house. Not since I got the Vitamix. His skin is even better for it. All that C and whatever else is in fresh fruit.

I'm not a smoothie person but I do want to give this kefir stuff a try.

And my ice cream at night is to die for. If I knew I could make peanut butter chocoate banana ice cream at 7:30 at night every night and get up and my blood sugar is 87, well, I would have done this YEARS ago.

Best ice cream I could ever make. All those tastes combining.

Heaven!!! lol

[AlwaysLearning]

What a bummer. It's 50 miles one way from my house to any of the natural/organic/real food grocery stores, but at least I have access.

Maybe you can request that your local WF carry it? Do they carry other So Delicious items? Don't forget to check your regular grocery stores, too.

Originally Posted by Nervous

Alas, my local whole foods did not have the So Delicious cultured coconut milk drink. They just had the regular, non-probiotic-fortified coconut milk.