Check out www.chariot.net.au/~dna/Makekefir.html

Dom sells grains and teaches all about the science and biology behind the grain, etc.  I know there are places in the states that sell grains too, but normally people that have them will share them since they reproduce and multiply.  

Coconut kefir, either with the milk or with the water work as a substitute.  Anything with sugar will kefir, but you have to be careful, as some sugars tend to feed alcohol production instead of lactic acid production.  I know people who kefir rice milk and other grain milks.  I haven't tried those, but i make a lemonade kefir that's a super replacement for soda or other sugary drinks for me and my children.  Add grains, 1/8 cup maple syrup, 1/8 cup of lemon juice, and fill glass quart container with filtered water.  Let ferment for 24 hours then strain the grains out and repeat the process.  Between a 2 year old, a 4 year old and myself, we can drink between a quart and a liter per day!  

Be sure to read Dom's info (from the above listed website) about transferring grains from milk to fruited water (lemonade).  It takes them a few cycles to adjust to different mediums, and once they go to fruited water, they don't like to go back to milk very readily.  

Take a few days and peruse his site.  There is SO much info there--even how to make kefir ice cream, cheeses, and a killer sourdough.

-lins

How about instructions on how to make the raw organic kefir?????  It is missing from this recipe.

With kefir grains you can have a lifetime of kefir (check google).  This is not well known since there is no money to be made and you only make one inexpensive purchase.  

Another enjoyably simple snack idea from Luci, a lot of us loyal Mercolites appreciate "simple"!

THANK YOU!

I like to add a little flavored stevia to my kefir. Sweet leaf makes a liquid that you just drop in with flavors like Vanilla Cream, Chocolate Raspberry, Lemon Cream, etc. My teenage son, who is very picky, loves it. I got my grains off Dom's website mentioned here and love them. When they grew, I took some out rinsed them off and started making coconut kefir from them which works wonderful. I found in the winter it took longer to ferment so I just put the jar in the oven with the light on (oven off) overnight and they are done in the morning. My tummy loves it when it's room temperature and fresh.

Edith from Mandurah, I live in Rockingham and I have some Kefir, but I don't know how to contact you.

I have tried the kefir with honey previously and it's nice, but I usually just drink it and use it as salad dressing with some herbs.

O.K. Well in Western Australia I find it impossible to buy Kefir. Does anyone out there know where I can get it.. Thank you.... Edith from Mandurah...

Where do you get raw organic kefir

Great recipe, but I have a food sensitivity to bananas & dairy.  Any ideas on options?

Being a keifer maker, we enjoy ours in a salad!  Drain a large can of crushed pineapple; add juice and water to make 1 cup to a package of gelatin; warm and stir until dissolved on stove top; cool to room temperature. Now add the pineapple and 1 cup of fresh keifer. Stir then chill 4-5 hours for your next tasty salad.  Great with a meal that needs that extra digestive help!

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