Coconut Butter

Coconut Butter is delicious, and ever since I tried it I knew it was going to be an expensive taste because at WF it costs $11 a jar. However, after some searching on the internet, I found that you can make your own very easily if you have a vitamix or blendtec type of blender (it may be possible in a regular blender, but I'm not sure). If you are on a GF diet I highly recommend buying one of these blenders. I know it's pricey, but very worth it. I use mine everyday, whether to grind rice, almonds, sugar, coconut, carrots or make a green smoothie. Worth every penny. Anyway, coconut butter is delicious on top of sweet potatoes, waffles, and just about anything.

To make your own buy some unsweetened dried coconut (at WF's it's about $2.39 a pound). Put enough of the dried coconut in to reach the 2 cup line on your blender, then let it mix on high for about a minute. You may need to use the temper stick, but let it blend until it's nice and smooth. Then pour it into a glass jar  and you're done! (maybe you have the same jar from the coconut butter you bought at the store, like I did) To fill up the whole jar it takes about $3.50 worth of coconut, which is much cheaper. If you eat it like I do, you'll save tons of money. My little one year old loves to eat coconut butter off a spoon and points to the jar and says "yummm!!" when he sees it.