Hi Sleeperblues. What brand ghee? Does it have any brown look to it? I like ghee but around here it's hard to find and too expensive to keep when I do find it. I've thought about making my own but that would still be expensive.

Bullet proof coffee?

I do. I like the toffee smell it has.

Moonie, if you have a trader Joe's near you, they carry it for cheap though I don't know if it's grass-fed.

I may be a total tightwad, but when it comes to ghee and butter (Kerrygold), I don't scrimp. I order Pure Indian Foods 100% Organic Grass-fed Ghee.

One of our favorite uses for ghee is for popcorn. I slather popcorn with a mixture of ghee, Kerrygold butter, and coconut oil. We have it every Saturday night as a special treat.

BTW - Wednesday I noticed butter went from $2.38 to $3.39 at Aldi, so I figure it will go up everywhere. I made a beeline for Walmart after I left Aldi (they are close to each other) and stocked up on Kerrygold butter. I also put in an order for ghee. I use ghee in cooking. If I drank coffee I'd have to try it in that..... -Grainlady

chi83 - We don't have a Trader Joe's in my neck of the boonies. :)

Moonie, I bought Tin Star foods 32 ounces online at Thrive market for 31.00. They charge 42.00 for it on the Tin Star website. I love it so much today I ordered a jar of their brown butter, same price for the same amount. I'll have to look into your brand, Grainlady. Thanks for the tip. Rob, bulletproof coffee is just adding some fat source to your coffee and whirring it up in your bullet. I don't eat breakfast (at least not when I have to work early--I prefer eating it around 11:00) so if I have to work I'll make the bulletproof coffee and then I don't get hungry.

My favorite brand is Ancient Organics. I buy it on Amazon - it's amazing.

I use ghee often. Like grainlady, I like the Pure Indian Foods brand of ghee. (Haven't tried Ancient Organics.)

I've tried bulletproof coffee with coconut oil, but wasn't sold on it. I'll have to try it with ghee sometime.

I'm going to look into this brand. I just buy what is on the shelf. I don't love it and will mostly have in a baked sweet potato but find it too strong with anything else. My "bulletproof" coffee is coconut oil (1 tsp), mct oil (1 tsp) and gelatin (bovine, organic) (1 tbsp). Maybe I will try it with a bit of ghee today and see how that goes.

I can't have dairy so the fats, after running through the magic bullet, makes a very nice, creamy coffee. I tried with ghee this morning. Not bad. I will try a few more times to see if it's a keeper or just go back to my old way.

It's not difficult to make ghee.

I buy it at Sprouts market.

Rhizo, I eat a high fat low carbohydrate diet (HFLC) and am so satiated that I only eat 2 times a day, so am always looking for ways to add more healthy saturated and monounsaturated fats to my diet. I was one of those people who religiously followed the government guidelines for low fat high carbs (6-11 servings of "healthy whole grains" a day, anyone?) and found myself constantly dieting, constantly trying to cut my fat intake, and constantly hungry. I believe these recommendations have contributed to the obesity epidemic. Since I've gone HFLC and gluten free, I have more energy, more stamina, better hair and nails and skin, and am off my antidepressant meds. I could probably ditch my asthma meds, but am down to 1puff a day instead of 4 puffs. Oh, and I exercise because I love it not because I feel like have to burn calories off, like I did in the "olden days" of my life. I would try the bulletproof coffee before you make a judgment. You might not like it, but you might. PS-Hope your Hubby is well:)

Thanks, sleeperblues.

I'm basically high fat/low carb, too. Does the coffee drink taste oily?

Please share with us in the dark. What is ghee. It sounds like some kind of substitute dairy product. What is it made from. Excuse the dangling participle.

Clarified butter this culinary arts site explains it well. I love it with seafood.

Ghee

OMG, my mom used to make ghee. We had an Indian pastor at church, he taught my mom a few indian dishes and techniques. This was before you could buy ghee in the shops I guess. Late 1970's.

I remember it being a long rendering process over very low heat.

Casey

Clarified butter (ghee) is made by a simple process of gently simmering butter to remove potential allergens such as casein and lactose, as well as the milk solids, which settle on the bottom of the pan while simmering. What is left is pure butter oil.

The Pure Indian Foods brand that I use is also made from the milk of cattle that are grass-fed (pastured from spring through fall). This gives the milk higher amounts of vitamin D, and butter is one of the few good food sources we consume for vitamin D - found naturally - not the synthetic form added to fortified foods/milk. I tend to use more ghee and grass-fed butter, like Kerrygold, when we spend less time outside in the winter as a rich source for vitamin D. Vitamin D is a fat soluble vitamin, so if you take a supplement, you should also take it with some fat, so butter or ghee is perfect like it is.

-Grainlady

Sleeperblues. My experience has been similar to your with history of following the food pyramid, low fat, etc and have now gone a different route. I am impressed with how much my health has changed but can't get my hair to be nice. Do you take any supplements. My nails are good but my front section of my hair tends to split, get brittle and break and doesn't grown very much. This is why I add gelatin to my coffee - hopefully to get stronger hair. LOL, sorry to throw this at you but grr, I've tried supplements, different products (sulphate, dye, paraban free), olive oil conditioners, I don't dye my hair. I do blowdry on warm.

Cookie, many of us acquire hair issues as we age, some of which just can't be fixed. It sounds like you are doing all you can do to make the most out of what you have.

Certain common medications affect our hair, too.

Cookie, yes I take supplements but the key to getting results is buying pharmaceutical grade supplements, which are more expensive. Don't buy supplements from Target, Walmart, even GNC. The only people who can sell pharmaceutical grade are licensed. RFvitamins.com and weightandwellness.com are 2 trustworthy companies that you can buy from online. Nutrikey, metagenics and innate choice are some companies I trust. I take fish oil, GLA, L-glutamine, bifido bacteria, magnesium glycinate, sometimes potassium if I exercise hard and sweat a lot, biotin, and progesterone cream. My hair is nowhere near what it used to be, which was thick and curly but it's better than it was. I think thinning and other issues happen with age and menopause. If anyone has a surefire solution to thinning hair I'd love to hear it.

Never have I had great hair. It is fine, natural curl (which I still hate) and not a whole lot of it but it doesn't look that thin. We have a compound pharmacy that has a naturopath and I do need to find a new one as mine just retired. Maybe I'll look into it. Thanks. Off to check out RFvitamins.

Wow, I really must live in the boonies as I have never heard of ghee either! Would that be found with other butters? May be interesting to try. :)

Just looked in Wal-Mart but no luck.

In some stores it is in the refrigerator section in some on the shelf with oils. It doesn't require refrigeration. At Sprouts market where I buy it, it's in the refrigerator section, I had a hard time finding it and no one in the store had any idea what it was or where to look. Some stores have it in the seafood department because it's popular with lobster and other seafood. If you ever had the liquid butter served with lobster or crab etc it was probably clarified butter /ghee. Although some places just melt regular butter. In Sprouts the manager of the seafood department did know what I was looking for but he didn't know if they carried it. I found it on my own on the very top shelf where the butters were.

Here is some at Walmart a 3 package

Walmart

Thank you Raven

I will keep searching as I would like to try it!