Giveaway: Free Copy of “Cooking with Coconut Flour”
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I’ve been really enjoying this cookbook, “Cooking with Coconut Flour” by Bruce Fife. I just can’t believe how great all the recipes turn out. Coconut flour blueberry muffins, coconut flour bacon & cheese muffins, coconut flour pancakes. Everything has been delicious!
And as many of you know, coconut is so good for you. Coconut flour is low-carb, gluten-free and it’s easy to digest (it contains no phytates so it needs no soaking, like wheat flour does).
Here’s the good news: somehow I ended up with a second copy of the book. Instead of returning it, I have decided to give it away to one of you, my lucky readers.
To enter to win a copy of the book, just post a comment below telling me why you want to win it.
Leaving a comment below is your first entry to win. To get more points towards winning, you will earn one additional entry point for each of the following:
1. Blog about the giveaway and link back to this page. Then add your name and URL to Mr. Linky below. You only need to put your link and name in Mr. Linky if you are blogging about this giveaway.
2. Sign up for my email updates or RSS feed. Leave a comment below telling me that you do.
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Questions? Comment below.
The giveaway is now OPEN.
This contest will end Sunday, January 25th at 11:59 PM PST. The winner will be chosen via random.org and will be announced Monday, January 26th. Winner will have 48 hours to contact me with his or her full name, address, and phone number.
Sorry, but due to shipping costs, only Americans are welcome to enter this contest.
Good luck, everybody!
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18/01/2009 at 2:52 pm Permalink
Why sould I win this book?? Because I am on a Gluten free diet! (actually a gluten free, sugar free dye free diet) Being able to cook with Coconut flour and have actual recipies would alow me to eat a more normal diet. I really want this book!!!
18/01/2009 at 3:24 pm Permalink
I want it!
I Tweeted: http://twitter.com/jhazen/statuses/1129121304
I friended/updated on facebook: http://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=711015752
I put a post on my blog: http://jhazen.livejournal.com/29795.html
I subscribe to your posts on both cheeseslave.com and realfoodmedia.com (is that 2 points?)
18/01/2009 at 3:26 pm Permalink
Oh, I forgot the why (though I mentioned it in my blog post).
I’m on a low-carb diet, and recently made the decision to cook more at home. It would be great to have a cookbook to give me some more ideas to increase my variety.
18/01/2009 at 3:56 pm Permalink
I would love to get this book and learn all about cooking with coconut. I am trying to eat a WAPF-style diet as best I can. I think that coconut is awesome for this, because as you said, it does not have to be soaked, and it can be used to make various low-carbohydrate baked goods. I used to think that the only low-carb baked foods were additive-filled diet bars. Coconut is also easy on one’s blood sugar (I’m working hard to eliminate the associated mood swings, as well as a hormonal imbalance).
I also signed up for the updates and I Stumbled you, so that’s three.
18/01/2009 at 3:58 pm Permalink
I’ve been nervous to try anything else with our coconut flour. The only recipe I tried was a flop. I’d love to give it a try again though. Thanks for offering this!
18/01/2009 at 4:07 pm Permalink
I checked this out from the library a while back and loved it. I had to bring it back and would love to own a copy myself since I am doing low-carb for weight loss.
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18/01/2009 at 5:45 pm Permalink
I want to win this wonderful cookbook because I have 2 huge bags of Tropical Tradition’s coconut flour and 1 bag of Bob’s Red Mill coconut flour in my cupboard and I need to start baking before they expire! I have already made the blueberry coconut flour muffins but it only used 1/4 cup of the flour! They were delicious. I added grated lemon zest to the batter YUMMM!
18/01/2009 at 5:56 pm Permalink
A little shameless promotion, eh? Guess there’s nothing wrong with that
I also signed up for your email updates, so that’s another point.
I should win that book so I can try out some recipes and blog about it. I can’t blog about it until I try some recipes, so I think I should get one point for commenting and half a point for future blogging
You do want to see my blog about coconut flour, don’t you??
18/01/2009 at 6:11 pm Permalink
I want it because I’m just starting to experiment cooking with coconut flour due to your blog. I think I get an extra point because I have added your rss feed to my reader. Please…please…please!
18/01/2009 at 6:16 pm Permalink
I have been making the coconut flour blueberry muffins you posted every week and would love to be able to make more things! In addition, my brother is autistic so we can always use tasty, gluten free recipes for him to try.
18/01/2009 at 7:45 pm Permalink
This cookbook could be what it takes for me to try a grain-free diet. That grain-free diet may fix whatever is wrong with Husband’s and my adrenal/endocrine systems. Once that’s fixed, we will become super-fertile and have a baby. So, you wouldn’t be giving me the gift of a cookbook, you would be giving me the gift of a child
Everyone else has really good, legitimate reasons, so I felt like I needed to up the ante a little.
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18/01/2009 at 8:17 pm Permalink
I’ve enjoyed all the coconut flour recipes you’ve posted so far, and have been meaning to look into getting this book…
and i already subscribe to your RSS feed. Does that count?
18/01/2009 at 8:57 pm Permalink
I love to cook and bake and haven’t tried coconut flour yet. However, I know this book would inspire me.
rsgrandinetti@yahoo(dot)com
18/01/2009 at 9:07 pm Permalink
I’m slowly trying to go gluten-free, so this would be an awesome resource!
(BTW, I’m trying those bacon and cheese muffins this week — I’m so excited!)
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18/01/2009 at 9:22 pm Permalink
And I already follow you in Google Reader! For a few months now!
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18/01/2009 at 9:29 pm Permalink
I am now following you, and I tweeted about the giveaway — my twitter name is staceyjolly.
Feeling like an uber-stalker, but I’m getting ready to friend you on Facebook…oh, the links I’ll go to for a free cookbook!
Stacey’s last blog post..Menu Plan Monday: January 19, 2009
18/01/2009 at 9:38 pm Permalink
Want! Too lazy for any of those things. But you are all up in my rss reader, of course.
18/01/2009 at 9:40 pm Permalink
Have I nothing better to do at almost 1am? Anyhow, I friended you on Facebook and updated my status with a link to the cookbook. I think it’s time to go to sleep now.
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18/01/2009 at 10:09 pm Permalink
Oh your too kind! I would love a chance to win this book because we love baked goods and I REALLY need to find better alternatives to them. I know I could use it and would use it alot
I’ll also blog and friend you on facebook, just for those extra chances. Good luck to everyone!
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19/01/2009 at 4:49 am Permalink
Due to hubs diabetis and my carb addictions, I’ve had to change so much around here and would LOVE low carb, DELICIOUS meals/foods we BOTH could enjoy. Seeing as you’ve discovered how delicious the recipes are, I’d LOVE this book for that reason….to do the same here at home
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19/01/2009 at 4:49 am Permalink
I’m an email subscriber
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19/01/2009 at 4:51 am Permalink
I’ve added you to my list of fav blogs
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19/01/2009 at 5:30 am Permalink
I would love this book. I made the coconut flour bacon and egg muffins and they were wonderful. Here’s the thing. My husband really liked them. He is retired military and now in schooI and these are easy for him to grab in the mornings. I am slowly getting him to eat this way and this would really help me to have alot more ideas.
19/01/2009 at 6:08 am Permalink
My son is on a gluten-free diet, so most of my cooking for the whole family is gluten-free. I have never used coconut flour. We love using coconut oil, so it should be an easy transition. Thanks so much for offering this giveaway!
19/01/2009 at 7:14 am Permalink
Hi there! Thanks for the chance to win this great giveaway! My family is starting to follow the guidelines of Nourishing Traditions as best we can, and anything that could help us eat yummy baked treats but still stay away from so many carbs and gluten would be great!
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19/01/2009 at 7:17 am Permalink
I’m a new email subscriber.
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19/01/2009 at 7:48 am Permalink
I haven’t tried anything with coconut flour yet, though it is on my list of things to do someday. This looks like a good resource to start with!
19/01/2009 at 7:55 am Permalink
Oh, no doubt I want this book! I’ve always been intimidated by alternative flours, and I would love to be able to approach them with confidence.
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19/01/2009 at 8:08 am Permalink
P.S. I also subscribe to your feed and Stumbled this page. Cheers!
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19/01/2009 at 8:19 am Permalink
Haha! Sarah, you always make me laugh. You reminded me of the Cookie Monster — “ME WANT COOKIE!” I always wish you would blog more because I love your sense of humor and spirit.
OK, yes, John, good idea — you can get one more entry for subscribing to the Real Food Media feed:
http://feeds2.feedburner.com/realfoodmedia/NmAF
If you sign up for email updates and the RSS feed, I will give you a point for each. And I will give you a point for Cheeseslave and a point for Real Food Media.
So, you can get a maximum of 4 points for RSS feeds/email updates.
I just counted — the maximum total points (entries) you can get is 10.
So lazy people like Sarah, get busy or John is gonna kick your butt with all his entries!
And remember you MUST comment to let me know if you do any of the above things to get your points (like add me on Facebook or tweet or send emails to friends). If you don’t let me know in the comments, I will not count it. (Just can’t keep track of all that stuff all over the place – do you blame me?!)
19/01/2009 at 9:45 am Permalink
I’m not interested in winning the book, because I already have it, but I do want to put in a plug for it.
I love that book! I had all but given up baking, making pancakes, and crepes, because my family eats a low carb, nearly no grain diet (now gluten-free, too), but coconut flour changed that.
One of the best recipes in this book is the coconut butter cookies. The recipes without grated coconut do not have a particularly coconutty flavor, either. And many, if not most of the recipes have a lower sugar version, which I find are definitely sweet enough (actually even a bit too sweet for me). But they are sweet enough even for people who constantly bombard their taste receptors with sugars. I don’t bother with the stevia to replace the missing sugar, either. When I’ve served coconut flour recipes to others, no one knows they are “unusual” (low sugar, gluten-free, higher in protein, etc.).
The low sugar muffins are good, too, but I found they worked best with aluminum baking liners instead of paper liners or greased tins (stuck too much). The bread recipe is good, but without the gluten, has the texture of a pound cake, not conventional bread. It’s great in French Toast.
Coconut flour is gluten-free, too, but as such, needs a good binder. Many of the recipes use eggs as binder, so be sure to have a lot of eggs on hand. The eggs will add to the expense of these recipes, too, but eggs are a super budget-wise protein source, making most coconut flour recipes a better source of high quality protein than conventional baked goods. So IMO, they can still be grocery money well spent, despite the seemingly higher comparative cost.
Coconut flour is more expensive, about $6-8 per pound, than wheat flour (which is a commodity crop raised in surplus amounts and tax-subsidized, so artificially cheap) but a package goes a long way because many of the recipes only call for about 1/4 to 3/4 of a cup, compared to similar wheat flour recipes that might use 1-2+ cups.
Bob’s Red Mill makes a nice coconut flour, so ask for it to be stocked anywhere you see other BRM products. But good deals on other brands of coconut flour can also be found online.
One minor point, but do you really mean “Americans” or rather, you’ll only ship to US postal addresses? I’m sure you are focussing on the domestic vs. international postage issue, not whether someone is a US citizen or Permanent Resident, etc. But being married to a former Permanent Resident (now Naturalized Citizen), these things pop out at me.
19/01/2009 at 12:00 pm Permalink
Hi! I’d love this cookbook, since I’m on the GAPS diet and starting to explore more recipes using coconut flour. I’ve also signed up for your RSS feed.
Thanks!
19/01/2009 at 12:17 pm Permalink
So why should I win the cookbook?? ‘Cause I’m greedy, love baking recipes, need to put just one more cookbook on my groaning-under-the-weight cookbook shelf, never tried coconut flour before and it intrigues me. Need I say more?
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19/01/2009 at 2:03 pm Permalink
I have been meaning to buy it but maybe I’ll win it instead! I don’t have a blog but I am subscribed to your blog feed. We love the coconut pancakes and muffins you have blogged about.
19/01/2009 at 2:21 pm Permalink
love to cook and am trying to reduce the gluten in our diets to start
19/01/2009 at 2:26 pm Permalink
This is exciting. I would love this cookbook. My daughter is on gaps and loves when I make her coconut flour creations. I tried to check this book out from the library and they wouldn’t let me because it’s from another city. It would be an awesome addition to my cookbooks. Thanks for the opportunity!
19/01/2009 at 2:43 pm Permalink
Hello!
looks like a cool cookbook, though if i win it i’ll probably wind up giving it to john h. to encourage his resolution to cook more at home. (after i try out a few things, of course, i’m a coconut fanatic.)
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19/01/2009 at 3:06 pm Permalink
Hi, Lauren – please make sure you comment on the other entries (just saw you on Facebook).
The rest of you too — PLEASE comment when you tweet and FB me — I am afraid I won’t catch all the entries if you don’t comment.
Thank you!
19/01/2009 at 3:31 pm Permalink
I was born in the tropics and consumed quite a bit of coconuts but never knew that coconut flour existed. I love coconuts and eat them whenever I can. This would be a great cookbook to add to my “eating” collection. Thanks for the giveaway.
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19/01/2009 at 3:32 pm Permalink
I am following you in twitter.
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19/01/2009 at 3:33 pm Permalink
I sent you a friend invite in facebook and posted the link to this site –> http://www.facebook.com/ext/share.php?sid=58922181464&h=lH50i&u=JUGRV
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19/01/2009 at 3:38 pm Permalink
I blogged it at my site –> http://vdeliz.blogspot.com/2009/01/to-hold-other-blogs.html?showComment=1232408220000#c724088148548861340
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19/01/2009 at 3:59 pm Permalink
Hi, Vivian, thanks for entering! Coconut flour is really a wonderful thing!
19/01/2009 at 4:02 pm Permalink
Hi, Anna,
Yes, I like the coconut flour bread and you are right — it does have the consistency of a pound cake.
I meant US postal addresses — not Americans. Thanks for clarifying that!
19/01/2009 at 6:00 pm Permalink
please, count me in.
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19/01/2009 at 8:20 pm Permalink
Thanks for the giveaway.
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20/01/2009 at 5:06 am Permalink
I would love to win this book! I’ve been pining away for it since you first mentioned it on your blog. My son has autism, and we are on the gfcf diet. He has some major sensory issues…so his diet is extremely limited. He loves bread though, and I can’t seem to find a gfcf loaf that he will eat. I keep thinking that maybe this book would have the answer!
My son has recovered so much from a traditional diet, supplements, and lots of love! Honestly, it was your blog that inspired me to switch over to traditional foods. Which, has completely changed our family. Thank you for all you do!
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20/01/2009 at 5:45 am Permalink
Megan, thank you so much for commenting. I’m SO HAPPY that your son is healing. Hooray! Wonderful news!
The coconut flour bread is very good — the recipe is on my blog if you want to try to make it. I actually like the almond bread, too (recipe also on here). But if you haven’t tried the coconut flour muffins — they are the best! Oh, and the pancakes are great, too!
Please keep me posted on your son’s progress.
20/01/2009 at 7:46 am Permalink
Ok…I responded a long time ago but did not put in what I did…just my reason for wanting the book! I friended you on facebook, signed up for email updates on Cheeseslave, did the google thing with real food media where its on my page. I think that’s it….
20/01/2009 at 8:42 am Permalink
I think it’s healthy and not have tried it. So better to win.
20/01/2009 at 9:33 am Permalink
I would SO love to win this book. My son is on the gfcf-everything-else-free diet, so we LOVE coconut flour around our house.
I also have you on my google reader…and have for a while!
20/01/2009 at 2:17 pm Permalink
Since I cannot eat gluten (and many other grains) this book would definately be good for me.
I do follow you on twitter and I tweeted about your giveaway.
http://twitter.com/CarlaRose/status/1134659181
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21/01/2009 at 3:52 pm Permalink
I’ve heard great things about coconut flour – would love to win the book!
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21/01/2009 at 3:55 pm Permalink
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21/01/2009 at 3:55 pm Permalink
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21/01/2009 at 8:37 pm Permalink
i’m trying to cook more gluten free items fo my family
Thanks for such a generous giveaway! I hope I’m chosen as the lucky winner!!!
22/01/2009 at 2:03 pm Permalink
I could really use this b/c I need major coconut help
22/01/2009 at 7:32 pm Permalink
Ah nice giveaway! I’d love to add this book to my collection so I can expand my cookbook inventory beyond Nourishing Traditions :p We’re a gluten free house (most of the time!) too so I’d love to look at some goodies with other flours. I can’t wait to try the muffin recipe you posted a few weeks ago. And a low-carb gluten free flour would be so nice to experiment with for my sweet hubby!
I posted about you on the blog my blog about the giveaway
Been following you on Twitter (and you’re following me – skrimpy over there) so you should have seen my tweet!
We friended on Facebook too so you’d have seen that status update!
And I’ve been subscribed to Cheeseslave via RSS since the wordpress.com days so does that count :p ?
Giveaways are such fun!
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25/01/2009 at 7:59 am Permalink
I’d like to win this because I’m super curious. I’d never even heard about coconut flour!
25/01/2009 at 2:37 pm Permalink
Hi. i’d love a copy of this book so i can find new ways of baking and incorporate them into my lc lifestyle. i struggle with weight and weightloss and i’m wondering if this would help. perhaps gluten is what is holding me back. thanks.
26/01/2009 at 10:56 am Permalink
Here I am suffering on a grain free diet (not truly suffering). My family is crazy in love with my molasses cookies and all my cookie recipes, in fact they refuse to eat other cookies now.
I just sit there and watch them enjoy their cookie with raw milk. I just have my glass of milk and watch them sprinkly crumbs down the fronts of their shirts. My husband is nice enough to let me smell his cookies before he devours them.
I sure would love to have a cookbook that would show me how to make something tasty to nibble on besides meat, cheese, and veggies. A girl needs a cookie or a muffin or a slice of toast every now and again.
17/06/2009 at 10:52 pm Permalink
I wanted to let you know that I added you as a friend on facebook. I have made a very few thing with coconut flour and have enjoyed them.
I would like to know more about the cookbook to broaden my horizons. I’m a diabetic and need to watch the carbs. Carbs immediately blast my BGL over the moon. So low carb for me.
19/06/2009 at 7:14 am Permalink
I love cooking and especially baking. I was recently diagnosed as having pre-diabetes. I want to cook low GI biscuits, cakes and muffins. Especially muffins because I love them. This book will help me do that.
06/03/2010 at 12:23 am Permalink
I recently lost 33 lbs. I am so happy about my new size but was feeling like I may never enjoy another baked good again. Until I discovered coconut flour. I have been using organic foods and raw dairy products along with coconut oil as my main cooking oil for a long time. I continue to find new and healthy things for my family to eat. Its important for our family to be in controll of our own health. So to make a long story short, I am so excited about cooking with coconut flour I am devouring every bit of information I can to bring this new food into my home. I just ordered 6lb of organic coconut flour and cannot wait to try a new recipe!!!