COCONUT OIL IN PLACE OF SHORTENING

By serena On August 1, 2011 · Leave a Comment

Stephen Lilly

Have any of you ever used coconut oil instead of butter or shortening in your baking? I tried it with some cookies the other night, they were knock your socks off good and low cholesterol 🙂

- Nicholas Stewart Don’t start messing with the Appalachian diet Steve lol
  
  Stephen Lilly Well, my cholesterol is on the wrong side of good, so I have to look into these things Nicholas Stewart Then you have been doing the Appalachian Diet to a tee thus far lol
- Stephen Lilly red meat and potatoes with plenty of butter and salt
- Cindy Webster can you taste the cocconut?
- 27 minutes ago ·

Stephen Lilly Not usually, I dont have the conversion factors down exact yet, but I could barely in the cookies. My daughter does not like coconut and loved the cookies

- Serena Adkins Ellison you know Stephen.. my friend Carrie told me about that YEARS ago and I broke down and bought some but had to throw it out cause I had never used it. … I seriously should have tried it. I guess I am so used to doing things the old fashioned way.. but if you say it is good then I better go buy me some more.. h ahhaaa
- Stephen Lilly well we aint skinny people here, so you know you can trust us lol
  
  All my research says 3/4 to 1 substitute. I used 1 to 1 lol
- Serena Adkins Ellison LOL ok I will buy it next trip to the store… Carrie told me she loved it but I didn’t trust her hahaha
- If she was skinny you can’t, how can you trust skinny people when it comes to food they obviously never eat lol 🙂
- Stephen Lilly ‎Tabitha had been insisting I try it for a while, I broke down when I made the cookies the other night. She is gonna post the recipe on her blog, I will share the link here when she does
  
  Stephen Lilly Exactly Nick, never trust a skinny chef
- Serena Adkins Ellison yep she was skinny.. but maybe if I would have listened to her I would still be skinny too PAHAHAHAHAHHAHAAHA

Lesley Peck I ♥ coconut oil. It’s VERY good to use popping popcorn.

Carla Bolen love coconut oil

Susan McElroy I only use coconut oil or grape seed oil to cook with. Very healthy alternatives. Both are good for baking.
Serena Adkins Ellison oooooh never heard of using GRAPE SEED OIL.. very informative… is it expensive? I haven’t seen this at Walmart..where do you get it?

Susan McElroy I have been cooking with grapeseed oil for 2-3 years now and although it can be a liitle more expensive (like coconut oil and olive oil) it’s health benefits are worth it to me. I buy All Natural Grapeola. I love it’s benefits: No Cholesterol, No preservatives, no sodium, great for baking, frying, salads. Only need one half the amount than other oils to achieve the same results, and has a high smoke point (400 degrees). Http://www.zhion.com/cancer/Grape_Seed_E.html
Susan McElroy http://www.zhion.com/cancer/Grape_Seed_E.html just one site you can check out info on Grapeseed Oil.

BENEFITS OF GRAPE SEED, SIDE EFFECTS

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