I found this article intriguing, especially when the claims made in the article (that pumpkin spice-like spices are often used in comforting settings) are evaluated from a keto standpoint. I feel no loss giving up most of my non keto foods… but I feel sad that I probably won’t eat my mom’s homemade Mac and cheese again.
What is ‘pumpkin spice,’ anyway? And why do we crave it? - CNN
Exactly. I didn’t even know it existed. And now that I do … nope, no cravings.
I love all things pumpkin spice! I plan on making a pumpkin cheese cake with a pecan/almond flour crust for thanksgiving this year 
. Every now and then I will put pumpkin pie spice in my coffee grounds while I brew a pot. It smells amazing.
Yup. Tomorrow during football I’ll be simmering an orange, cinnamon sticks, cranberries, anise, and pumpkin spice blend on the stove all afternoon. Can’t wait. Makes house smell like fall.
I tried the coffee grounds things but it wasn’t intense enough for me. Now I just sprinkle the spice in it after it’s brewed. Darn yummy.
Tomorrow I plan on blending up a whole pot of coffee with MCT, HWC and some pumpkin spice… talk about basic.
You can have pumpkin pie on keto. 
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This is a delicious recipe. I have added a little real maple syrup or honey (since it’s allowed on Banting) to enhance the sweetness, but the butternut squash really does have a lot of inherent sweetness itself.
You could probably adapt the recipe. Some people use cooked, diced, and squeeze-dried cauliflower in place of pasta. In place of any thickener, you could use xanthan gum, or something like that.
I make a pumpkin-pie cheesecake pudding by mixing a big can of Libby’s pumpkin (HAS to be Libby’s) with cream cheese, a little cream, and the spices listed for pumpkin pie on the can. I don’t make it too often because it’s too easy to overindulge with it.
Never had it… if a recipe calls for it I make my own spice mix using star anise, cinnamon & nutmeg
Years ago, I did a little experimenting and found out it wasn’t pumpkin spice that I craved, per se, but the cloves in it. I luuurve cloves. I’ll buy a bag of the whole ones in the bulk foods section just to have something around to stick my nose in. I’d do lines if I could figure out a way to cut it on the dashboard of my truck.
(note to self: buy an extra bag for the truck)
You can keep your cinnamon, nutmeg, cardamon, and mace. Gimme cloves or gimme death.
I can smell this photo.
You can always smoke them! They do have clove cigarettes. When I used to smoke, once in a great while I’d get a pack if I was in a tobacco shop. You’re welcome.
When frying off your sous vide steak, put a couple of cloves in you pan butter and let them fry in it first for a minute.
You’re welcome. 
Okay, I’m gonna have to go with Peter’s suggestion, here, only because I have a deep, homicidal hatred of my chain-smokin’ duplex neighbors.
But I do remember clove cigarettes as being less disgusting than regular crap. But it’s all crap. Just sayin’.
(sigh)
