It's Not a Beef Roast

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I wanted an apple crisp today but didn't know how I would make it since the crumble for it is oatmeal and sugar. Neither of those is on the diet program I'm on. So, I thought I would use nuts as the base, and thought coconut would be a great combination with the walnuts, pecans, and almonds I have on hand, that I usually mix with my bananas and almond or cashew milk for a great breakfast. I went to the store to get some unsweetened coconut. You know, it doesn't exist? If it does, it's not at Wal-Mart. I didn't know what to do and then thought, okay, if I can't get the unsweetened flakes, I'd buy a coconut. Then worried they wouldn't have any. They did. I looked at this coconut for a few minutes with lots of questions, uppermost being how do you crack it open? I decided to go for it, and I'm glad I did. I got it home and went directly to the Internet to find out how to crack open a coconut. Bake for 20 minutes until it starts to crack. First, you need to use a weapon of choice - I used a screwdriver - to poke a hole into one of the eyes and drain the milk out. Next, and knowing me as well as I do, I did not use a meat cleaver, but a hammer to pound on the cracks on the coconut when it came out of the oven. Then came the fun of taking the meat out of the shell. I then took all my nuts and coconut meat, put it in my Ninja, and put it with the sliced apples I bought this morning as well and stuck it in the oven at 350 for an hour. It really tastes good, though it does need some tweaking. Some butter, for instance, to make those apples a little moister. I thought about Stevia, but I don't think it needs it. The nuts make a great granola type. I do have butter, and it's allowed on Paleo, so I'm thinking about putting my next bowl in the microwave with some butter on it, to see how that works out. Otherwise, it's good the way it is, just not as moist as it could be. That was my breakfast this morning, and now I have a mess to clean up in the kitchen and office as those nuts got everywhere, especially the floor. So, not a roast beef as some people thought on my last post, but an apple crisp. Have you made anything unusual that turned out really good? Thanks for reading. Picture is the apple crisp I made. It's also the new baking dish I bought this morning to replace the one that exploded all over my kitchen a couple weeks ago.