Pumpkin Pancakes with Spiced Whipped Cream
Even if you never touch dessert it’s still easy to get too much sugar. We know sugar is virtually everywhere in our food system. Low carb people know to stay away from things like bread, pasta, pancakes, baked goods, sodas, fruit drinks, and virtually every processed food. When you include HFCS (high fructose corn syrup) it seems like sugar is everywhere. Look around. Read labels.
Good news is you can have your sugar, eat it too, and not totally blow a low carb existence. You don’t have to feel deprived, either.
One trick is to concentrate on NATURAL sugar sources. Leave the chemistry involved in processed table sugar and artificial sweeteners by the wayside. Diet soda is NOT your friend. Research has proven it never really made you skinnier, and some new research even links it to overeating.
So what are better sources of sugar? I’m going to give you six options. You’ll have to keep them in check but I’ll give you ideas on how to use them....
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Pumpkin Pancakes with Spiced Whipped Cream
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This is a ZReboot 3.5 recipe. Hot off the Griddle. “Zolafied” pancakes. Dieter Joan sent me her family recipe for pumpkin pancakes. They are a favorite with her clan. She asked me if I could do a “healthy version” of pumpkin pancakes that she can serve at the holidays and keep her family full and satisfied as well as healthy. So here it is!
Servings: This makes 12, 4-inch pancakes. The carbohydrate count will be very low on these cakes. They fill you up, too. If you want your kids “full and focused” before school give them these instead of cereal.
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