Low Carb Pumpkin Bread

Low Carb Pumpkin Bread

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Prep Time 5 minutes mins

Cook Time 1 hour hr

Course Bread, Breakfast, Dairy Free, Dessert, Vegetarian

Cuisine American

Servings 16

Calories 191

Ingredients

  

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• ▢ 3 cups blanched almond flour
• ▢ 1/2 teaspoon Redmond Fine grain sea salt
• ▢ 1 teaspoon baking soda
• ▢ 2 teaspoons ground cinnamon
• ▢ 1 teaspoon ground nutmeg
• ▢ 1 teaspoon ground ginger
• ▢ 1/4 teaspoon ground cloves
• ▢ 1/4 cup butter flavored coconut oil (or butter if not dairy free)
• ▢ 1 cup Natural Sweetener
• ▢ 1 teaspoon stevia glycerite
• ▢ 6 large eggs
• ▢ 2 cups pumpkin puree

GLAZE:

• ▢ 1 cup coconut oil
• ▢ 1/2 cup powdered allulose or powdered erythritol

Instructions

 

• Preheat oven to 350 degrees F.
• In a mixing bowl combine almond flour, baking soda, salt, and spices.
• Mix butter, sweetener, eggs and pumpkin until smooth.
• Stir wet ingredients into dry.
• Grease and pour into a bread pan. Bake 60-70 minutes, or until a toothpick inserted in the middle comes out clean (you may want to loosely cover with tinfoil so the outside doesn’t brown too much).
• Meanwhile, make the glaze. Mix all glaze ingredients together in a small bowl.
• Top the Low Carb Pumpkin Bread with glaze or my “healthified” pecan butter (recipe in my Kids cookbook HERE)!

Nutrition

Calories: 191 | Fat: 14g | Protein: 7.3g | Carbohydrates: 7.5g | Fiber: 3.3g | P:E Ratio: 0.4

In the past few recent decades, we have been mis-informed that fat-free diets and healthy “whole grains” are the healthy way to eat. Even the medical profession is telling parents to have their kids drink skim milk! Don’t get me wrong, there are some fat to totally avoid, such as vegetable oils and trans-fats. But going on low fat diets is more harmful than you realize. This is why I always use full fat (and tasty) foods! High protein and grain-free diets alone are not the way to go. High fat is.

Galls are released by dietary fat. If you go on a little-to-no fat diet, the gall bladder starts to atrophy because it doesn’t need to work; just as when you don’t use your muscles, they atrophy and you are no longer as strong as you once were. Once the damage is done, and the gall bladder is removed, patients mistakenly believe that they can no longer eat fats without discomfort. This is not true, the bile to break down fat is made in the liver, then stored in the gall bladder. Even without a gall bladder, you produce bile and can (and should) consume healthy dietary fats.

After surgery (any surgery) you lose most of your beneficial bacteria; such as bifido bacteria, that keeps your intestines strong and healthy. Adding in probiotics and digestive enzymes are the first step to healing. Your body is smart, after years of low-fat dieting, it no longer produces lipase like it once did; lipase is the enzyme to break down fat (just as when a vegetarian adds in more protein after years of low protein, they feel sick… they no longer produce Protase, the enzyme to break down protein).

After a few days of increasing enzymes and good bacteria, adding in quality fats is essential for your body and cellular health; our brain and cells are composed of over 60% fat people! It is important! I suggest starting with coconut oil. Coconut oil is a medium chained triglyceride (MCT) which is an awesome fat because it doesn’t require bile for digestion! I use this in place of butter for all my baked goods. It gives them an AWESOME and naturally sweet flavor.

Foods high in cholesterol are also essential! You NEED cholesterol to produce bile. Start to add in quality eggs (yes, the yolks…whites don’t count, the cholesterol is in the yolks), organic cream and butter, grass-fed meats, lobster and other shellfish. I am not talking about “oxidized cholesterol”… which is damaged cholesterol found in skim milk and many processed foods; which triggers heart disease). If you keep avoiding fats and cholesterol, your body will keep on pace with no lipase excretion or bile production…causing a vicious cycle.

Testimony of the Day

Photo Testimony: “Maria, still going strong! So grateful to have found you…Before…251 lbs. Yesterday…174…going for 100… Sorry. I take terrible selfies, forgot to smile. Ill let you know when I reach 100 lbs lost!!” – Kelley

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