Gluten-Free High Protein Low-Carb Pumpkin Bread

This gluten-free high protein low-carb pumpkin bread is not just a fall favorite. It is a year-round go-to in our house. It freezes well. With the clean and healthy ingredients, when we have it I warm it up with a little butter on top and have it as my breakfast with a coffee as my meal of choice.

Growing up my grandmother used to bake anytime we were at her house. I can still remember the smells walking in of pumpkin or zucchini bread that was irresistible.

I would pace around the kitchen, mouth-watering, trying not to ask for the tenth time how much longer it would be.

I remember my mom telling me that pumpkin and zucchini were both vegetables to which I of course used as my excuse to have two or three extra slices when no one was looking. (shhhh that will be our little secret)

I was never a fan of pumpkin pie, though I have what I consider the best pumpkin pie recipe I have ever eaten here. I am not sure we can even put pumpkin pie and pumpkin bread in the same category. It really is unfair to pumpkin pie (lol).

This recipe can be a stand-alone recipe, but it can also be a foundational recipe that has so many other options.

Let me give you some ideas.

Take the base recipe below and add pecans and unsweetened coconut flakes to get a totally different bread.

Another way we love to enjoy this high-protein pumpkin bread is by adding 1 cup of sourdough starter (you can find that full recipe here). Please note this version is not gluten-free and is only low carb-ish but it is totally delish and a way to get a healthy pumpkin bread that can be eaten guilt-free!

Gluten-Free High Protein Low-Carb ingredient breakdown

I love that this recipe is so easy to mix up, freezes really well, and people used to traditional pumpkin bread can not even tell the difference. So when making this guilt-free bread I would say make an extra loaf and freeze it for the next week.

This bread is so guilt-free in fact that the way we love to enjoy it is hot with a slice of butter for brunch with a cup of coffee.

Why not?

Often we will have some berries or nuts on the side for our breakfast serving. But it could also be turned into a guilt-free low-carb dessert by topping it with this yummy coconut cream icing and keto candied nuts.

The Standard American Diet (SAD) Breakfast

The Standard American Diet (SAD), yes the acronym for how most Americans eat is SAD. Pretty much sums it up for us, right? It also explains why 1 in 5 women have an autoimmune disorder, how 1 in 3 Americans will die from issues caused by what is now called the “big 5 killers”.

• heart desease
• obisity
• cancer
• alzheimers / dementia
• high blood pressure

The reason for this is during the industrial revolution the way Americans farmed changed. Many women went to work full time and as an effect, fast food, processed quick easy foods, and eating out more often became our new norm.

It is most common to see Americans grab a bowl of cereal or oatmeal (thinking this is a healthier option) for breakfast. Doughnuts and pop tarts and such have become a daily go-to versus a once-a awhile treat. Heck public schools serve only milk, highly inflammatory and 9-10 have mild to severe allergies to dairy and don’t even know it, or juice that has more sugar than a doughnut.

What about good ol’ fashion water?

No sorry, that is not an option. Consider that for a moment……

Cereals have on average 12 to 22 grams of sugar and are loaded with other nasty ingredients such as:

1. Added Sugar
2. Hydrogenated Oils
3. GMOs and Glyphosate
4. Fortified Vitamins
5. Additives like BHA and BHT & Artificial Food Dyes
6. Arsenic

Both arsenic and glyphosate are known as Endocrine Disrupting Chemicals. Since natural hormones in our bodies act so powerfully in very small amounts, it is not surprising that scientists have found that EDCs can also have severe effects even in tiny doses:

Infertility, breast and prostate cancer, diabetes and obesity, increased rates of dyslexia, mental retardation, ADHD, and autism are just a few side effects common in the consumption of these ingredients.

Fetuses, babies, and children are particularly vulnerable to these chemicals in part because they are growing and developing rapidly. Endocrine Disrupting Chemicals exposures during critical developmental stages can lead to lifelong health problems and in some cases, can even affect generations to come, passing down health problems to our children’s children.

It use to take cancer cells twenty to thirty years to develop to the point of being fatal. We are now seeing children under the age of three now dying from cancer.

What has happened?

Our food supply system changed and with it came a long list of consequences. It took years for us to see the true effect of these consequences. In America today it is now easy to see the overall effects everywhere.

Recipe adapted from Gimme Delicious

IN CONCLUSION

Homemade breakfasts are best. This is a commonly known fact. But not all of us have the time to spend an hour or two in the kitchen every morning making a nutritious breakfast.

Having recipes that you can mix up in 10 minutes or less, like this GF High Protein Low-Carb Pumpkin Bread, in your arsenal gives us all the ability to have a nourishing wholesome breakfast (or dessert) without any fear of nasty ingredients being hidden in our food.

I heard a doctor once say, “food is medicine or it is poison”.

By making our food from scratch we can avoid the toxic ingredients found in so many foods in our supermarkets today. Using higher-quality foods like Non-GMO and organic we can again eliminate the herbicides and pesticides covering our crops.

One mindful step at a time we can journey back to our roots. The way food was meant to be grown and consumed. Convenience foods have come at a great cost to many people’s health.

Comment below what is one food you have eliminated from your diet after finding out what it does to your health?