You can
buy young coconuts in some health stores, large hight quality super markets (like Whole Foods in the US) or in Asian stores or neighborhoods.
The other option would be to
buy young coconuts and scoop the meat out yourself — you might need about 4 to get the same amount and not sure what the price difference would be.
Step 1:
Buying your young coconut You can find young coconuts at most natural food retailers within the produce section of the store.
Best of course is if you can
buy a young coconut and tap it yourself.
Not exact matches
You can
buy young Thai
coconuts in health food stores or Asian markets, where they are usually cheaper.
While I do sometimes
buy the
young Thai
coconuts at my local natural foods store and deal with the struggle that is opening them, I generally find it is way easier to just open a can of organic
coconut milk.
I've started
buying whole cases of
young Thai
coconuts.
They are also very perishable, so
buying frozen
young coconut meat is not only convenient but probably preserves more nutrients (unless you happen to have them growing in your backyard).
On top of that, we accidentally
bought two
young coconuts at Whole Foods instead of two regular ol' mature
coconuts, thinking they'd be interchangeable.
The way nondairy yogurt can be thickened (without the guar gum, tapioca starch, etc. used in store -
bought nondairy yogurts) is to use powdered pectin (if you can tolerate it), pureed
young coconut meat, agar agar, or other natural thickeners until it is as thick as you want it to be.
I'm still not entirely sure what happened, but
young Thai
coconuts have completely disappeared from our Asian markets, which are my main source of affordable cases of
coconuts that I
buy quite frequently.
I couldn't find a
young coconut and in my excitement
bought an old one.
In an attempt to simplify we
bought Raw Meal to cover the rice protein, chia seeds, and greens part... only using one scoop and plan to add homemade goat kefir, kale, and some frozen fruit... and maybe
coconut oil or nut butter... Since I'm trying to stretch one scoop to 3 categories and feeding it to 2 adults and 2
young kids should I be adding more scoops?