Coconut Oil

Yeah, it's not a miracle food to lose weight (unfortunately), but I love it for my skin and every time I'm cooking. Just weigh out what you use if you eat it.

rocknrollfire wrote: »

if something makes you feel sick, it's probably a sign you shouldn't do it.

that said, coconut oil is wonderful as a high-heat cooking oil. i like it in stir-fries, curries.... anything i want to add a bit of coconut flavour to. i also keep a separate jar in the bathroom for my hair & skin.

i don't think there's any such thing as a miracle food. use coconut oil because you think it's delicious and make it fit into your daily counts and you'll lose weight.

Just to expound - I love coconut oil, but I think I'd gag if I ate it straight up!

I enjoy baking with it when a smaller amount of fat is called for.
My friend makes these amazing oreo truffles, and coconut oil and oreos are the only ingredients...unless she dips them in chocolate. Hardly low-cal but so delicious.
If you put it in hot coffee or tea, throw it all in the blender for a few spins. The fat will melt and froth and give you a consistency as if you had used creamer (same principle as coffeemate, which is just hydrogenated oils, sugar, flavor and stabilizers)
My hands-down favorite way to use is to make coconut fried rice. Take leftover rice, 1-2tbs coconut oil, and whatever other tasties are lying around in your fridge, and stir fry all together.

In the end, coconut oil IS a fat, so eating it won't make you LOSE body fat unless you eat in a caloric deficit. But it is tasty! And when I buy something I like to use it up, so good luck!

I use it for cooking and baking.

My daughter was advised by her dietitian to add 1 Tbs to protein smoothie to aid satiety. She was eating max of 20 carbs daily. She said she couldn't taste it. I haven't tried it.

cook with it like a normal person....people like to take a reasonably good thing and then derp the *kitten* out of it.

coconut oil is just a fat, and dietary fat is essential. but it's not magical...many of the touted health benefits are anecdotal at best. it is delicious and i cook with it regularly, but you'd think the way people talk about it, it cures cancer or something.

ironically, just a couple of decades ago it was banned for use in movie theater popcorn 'cuz "debil"...now all of a sudden it's a "health food". go figure.

I use it for cooking, as it has a high smoke point. It's also lower in calories than most oils. I also use it as a moisturiser if I've done a skin peel, or a makeup remover. I also use it to oil my bakeware, as it hardens in my climate and leaves a thin film over the surface, protecting the pan from rusting.

I can't eat butter, so I use it for baking where you'd normally use butter and I like it for the most part (except with my brownie mix, which is makes too sweet for some reason). but I haven't found it to be "magic" in any way.

i eat it by the tablespoon (well just one). I like the taste and stops me craving sweets in the afternoon.

I also make an amazing chocolate with coco oil, butter, cacao and rice malt syrup.

I use it in my coffee in the morning before my run. It has helped GREATLY with my runs, endurance and energy-wise.

I love cooking with it, the food doesn't taste as heavy, and I like the flavor when baking with it. Ditto on the moisturizer.

It may be lovely in coffee but I am afraid to like it too much there. I drink 3-4 cups a day, too.

I find coconut oil to be over rated in its benefits. Seems to me that its just another fad item