Pumpkin Pancakes with Pumpkin Spiced Whipped Cream
5 Wonderful Sweeteners Better For You Than Sugar
Even if you never touch dessert it’s still easy to have too much sugar in your diet. We all know now that sugar is virtually everywhere in our food system. Plan Z dieters 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.
Good news is you can still enjoy sweets 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. Obviously, you’ll have to keep them in check and not go crazy with these but here are some ideas on how you can use them. Leave all the chemistry involved in processed table sugar and artificial sweeteners by the wayside. That means diet soda is not your friend. Research has proven that it never really made you skinnier, and some new research even links it to overeating.
Here are the top 6 sweeteners to use when you’re living a low carb life...
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Pumpkin Pancakes with Pumpkin Spiced Whipped Cream
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 to 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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