Last Updated on August 5, 2026 by Deliciously Organic Editor
I’m so excited to make this gluten-free “cornbread” and sausage stuffing for Thanksgiving this year!

If you want to educate yourself about health and nutrition, mark your calendar for next year’s Weston Price National Conference. I had the opportunity to attend the conference last weekend and I learned so much! I felt incredibly encouraged to meet so many people who are passionate about health, food and reversing disease with a nutrient dense diet.
Here are some highlights of what I learned:
Choose your vitamins or supplements with care – Most supplements contain synthetic vitamin isolates (like refined grains), inorganic minerals and toxic excipients. These excipients are usually labeled as “other ingredients” and are actually stearates made by hydrogenating cottenseed oil. Magnesium stearate, for example, reduces mineral absorption by 65%. We must do our research to get maximum benefit from any supplements or vitamins. – Dr. Williams
Know your fats – Saturated fats (butter, lard, ghee, coconut oil, etc.) are superior at promoting fat-soluble vitamin absorption. Eat your food with healthy fats if you want to get the most benefit from the nutrients. – Dr. Masterjohn
Fermented Foods are of Great Importance – Fermented foods and fat-soluble vitamins play a very important role in reducing calcification in the arteries. Dr. Masterjohn
The Balance of Vitamin A, D and K – Vitamin A and D protect against each others’ toxicity and increase the need for each other. So, if you take a vitamin D or A supplement, you should consult with your health provider to make sure you get enough of the opposite vitamin.
An imbalance of A and D can cause calcification in the body. Where do we get these nutrients? Cod liver oil, butter, egg yolks and animal liver are rich in Vitamin A. Cod liver oil, fatty fish, butter, and eggs are rich in Vitamin D (our skin also generates it when we’re exposed to sunlight). Leafy greens are rich in Vitamin K. Dr. Masterjohn
Good Bacteria – Friendly bacteria (like the bacteria in fermented foods) is essential for assimilating Vitamin B which promotes our “feel good” hormones. Kim Schuette
Mercury is the #1 Most Toxic Non-Radioactive Heavy Metal on the Planet – Be educated! If you decide to remove any amalgam fillings, find a biologically trained dentist for proper precautions (I didn’t know this several years ago and a simple filling removal resulted in some major health issues.). Dr. Williams
Be Educated About the Ingredients in Vaccinations – Because of the National Childhood Vaccination Injury Act, manufacturers have no liability and therefore no incentive to make products safer. So, please do your research and learn about all the ingredients – not just the “active” ones. You may be very surprised at exactly what you’re putting in your body. Leslie Manookian
I discovered some great new-to-me resources:
Radical Medicine (website) and Radical Medicine (book)
The Daily Lipid
The Greater Good
Death By Medicine
Empty Harvest
Amalgam.org
HolisiticDental.org
The recordings from the conference can be purchased here.

The food at the conference was all traditionally prepared and organic. The foundation arranged to bring in all the ingredients and had the hotel chefs cook using only the proper methods and the provided recipes. The result? An amazing spread of nutrient dense foods at each and every meal. I was thoroughly impressed!
I had hoped for a cornbread and sausage stuffing this Thanksgiving, so I created this recipe to grace our table in a couple of weeks.
Homemade grain-free “corn” bread, sautéed onions, celery, sausage, chicken stock, eggs and herbs make for a nutrient dense and healthy addition to the holiday table.
Print“Cornbread” and Sausage Stuffing (Gluten-Free)
I used my recipe for grain-free cornbread for the stuffing recipe but left out the cheese and jalapeños.
- Prep Time: 30 minutes
- Cook Time: 1 hour 5 minutes
- Total Time: 1 hour 35 minutes
- Yield: Serves 8
- Category: Side Dish
- Method: Baking
- Cuisine: American
- Diet: Gluten Free
Ingredients
- 1 pound pork sausage (pastured and organic preferred)
- 2 tablespoons unsalted butter or ghee
- 1 large onion, chopped
- 2 celery stalks, chopped
- 10 fresh sage leaves, chopped
- 1/4 cup flat-leaf parsley, chopped
- 1/2 teaspoon Celtic sea salt
- 1/4 teaspoon freshly ground black pepper
- 1 recipe grain-free cornbread (leave out the cheese and jalapeños when you make the bread), cut into cubes and left uncovered overnight to dry
- 1 cup chicken stock (homemade preferred)
- 3 large eggs
Instructions
Preheat oven to 350ºF and adjust rack to middle position. Cook pork over medium heat in a large skillet, using back of a wooden spoon to break the pork into small pieces. Using a slotted spoon, transfer the pork to a large bowl. Melt butter along with any leftover fat from the ground pork in the skillet. Add onion and celery and cook, stirring frequently until onions are just turning translucent, about 5 minutes. Stir in sage, parsley, salt and pepper. Pour mixture into the bowl with the pork. Add dried and cubed cornbread to onion and pork mixture. Whisk chicken stock and eggs in a medium bowl. Pour over cornbread mixture and gently toss until all ingredients are wet. Pour into an 11 x 7 – inch baking dish. Bake for 30-35 minutes until the top is golden brown. Serve.





Wow, Carrie, this looks like the real deal!
I love Kim, I miss not seeing her since Sharon, my nutritionist went out on her own, boo hoo. Kim is a wonderful lady, a wealth of nutritional/health knowledge! So happy you were able to attend the conference, I didn’t even realize it was going on until I saw your post. 🙂
What a great looking option for my inner carboholic! 🙂
You look beautiful, Carrie! So glad you were able to attend the WAPF conference! Sounds like you learned a lot and had a blessed time! And you cornbread stuffing looks simply delightful! Blessings to you and your family for a Happy & Blessed Thanksgiving, Kelly
This looks so good! Did you use pork sausage with sugar in it? Most of my farmers here process their sausage with a little sugar and I typically don’t buy it because of this, but I do have ground pork and lots of spices. 🙂 Do you think I could make my own sausge to go in this without the sugar? Thank you for sharing this recipe!
Also, meant to ask if this could be made ahead and if so how far in advance? Thanks!!! 🙂
You can make it 1-2 days in advance, store in the fridge and then reheat in the oven.
Thank YOU! 🙂
I used the pork sausage from Tendergrass farms that is free of sugar. I bet you could make your own and it would taste great!
Thank you so much, Carrie for your quick reply! 🙂 I’m assuming you must have used Tendergrass Italian Sausage…but I can see this might be good too with a breakfast sausage. 🙂 I have a great local farmer that I get an awesome Italian pastured pork sausage (no soy!) from so this may be the route I go if I don’t make my own. But then again a homemade breakfast type sausage with apples sounds yummy too! 🙂 Either way, I’m looking forward to making this for Thanksgiving! Your cornbread looks amazing and I grew up with jalepenos in my cornbread (of course I’ll follow your tip and leave out for the stuffing along with the cheese :)). I was really hoping to use a coconut flour based bread this year, but it just doesn’t seem to be panning out and every coconut flour based “corn”bread I’ve made just gets too soggy. 🙁 I don’t usually have an issue with almond flour unless I get too much of it…and I’m using an almond flour crust for my pies. OH well, it’s one day… or two or… three with leftovers..maybe! LOL Thanks again for your help and your recipe! I’m new to your site but have found myself pinning a lot from here already! 🙂 ~Have a blessed and Happy Thanksgiving~
I never put sugar, refined or otherwise, in any sausage and it works just fine. If you want to make it ahead, it will be fine, cooked, in the fridge for 3or 4 days. It will also go in the freezer and thaw very quickly when you need it.
I’ve been reading articles from Weston Price’s site – lots of great information. Thanks for sharing what you learned. I’m hoping to attend one of their conferences soon – so glad to hear it was worthwhile. I’m a huge believer in the connection between the prevention of disease and what we eat. Your stuffing recipe by the way sounds incredibly good!
What a great recipe, I can’t wait to make it to go with our Christmas roast!
Do you think the eggs are necessary? Or do you know something that could be substituted for the eggs? Looks delicious!
Yes, the eggs are necessary. I haven’t test it, but you could try a gelatin or chia seed egg replacement in place of the eggs.
Hubs and I were just drooling over this – this stuffing is on our list for Thanksgiving dinner! 🙂 🙂 Can’t wait! xo
I have a great dressing recipe that I am trying to adapt to grain free and was wondering if you know, would just using the cornbread cubes work in most any dressing recipe? Or is special handling of the cornbread cubes required to keep them from turning to mush?
My gf “cornbread” recipe should work great with just about any recipe. I’d give it a try!
Do you think this would work ok with your your whole wheat cornbread recipe instead?
Definitely!
Have you tried stuffing a turkey with it?
Help please! I just made your cornbread recipe for the stuffing. It’s kind of crumbly. Do I attempt to cube it and let it sit out over night? Should I let it sit out whole overnight and then cube it in the morning? Do I start over? Sorry to bug you and thanks for the great recipe!! Happy Thanksgiving!
I’m not sure why it’s crumbly. I would curb it, dry it (in the oven, since I’m answering your question the next day) and proceed with the recipe. A few crumbs won’t hurt the final outcome. 🙂
I made this tonight, and it was absolutely delicious!
SO good! I’m not a stuffing lover at all, but this was great! Almost just went w/a gluten free box, but so glad I didn’t. I made my own sausage. Couldn’t find flat parsley so used dried of whatever kind I had. Thanks so much for posting!
We just enjoyed the leftovers again tonight – it’s our new go-to stuffing recipe, fosho… it’s SOOOO GOOD!! Thank you, Carrie! My hubby can’t stop talking about it! We <3 you! 🙂
Thank you so much for this recipe. I made it for Christmas dinner. It is by far the best recipe I have ever made and will enjoy it for many years to come.
You’re welcome! I’m so glad you enjoyed it! 🙂
I have made this so many times and it is amazing every time! I do make my own turkey breakfast sausage! We are dairy free so in the cornbread I use 3/4c coconut milk in place of sour cream and it is perfect.
just want to say we made this last year for thanksgiving and it was AMAZING. gluten loving husband liked it way more than regular stuffing. thank you!!
Thanks, Brinn! So glad you all enjoyed it! It’s on our menu for next week!
Hi there! This looks delicious, and I plan on making it this week. I was looking at the cornbread recipe, and your recipe says to leave out the cheese and the jalapeños. Do you still include the onion? Just wanted to be sure. Thank you for this wonderful recipe?
Yes, you still include the onion.
Hi Carrie! I just wanted to let you know what an inspiration your site has been to me. I love this stuffing recipe! I think I’ve made it the past 3 Thanksgiving’s and everyone always loves it. I’m a new blogger and I decided to include your stuffing in my new post highlighting my favorite paleo Thanksgiving dishes. Check it out if you’d like. Thanks again for all that you do! http://thehappygut.net/2015/11/classic-thanksgiving-recipe-menu-made-paleo-way/ -Sharla
I appreciate the inclusion! 🙂
This is by far the BEST stuffing I have ever tasted!! Thank you for coming up with this wonderful recipe. I can’t wait to eat this at our Thanksgiving feast tomorrow!!
So glad you enjoyed it! 🙂
When you say to leave it out uncovered, is that out on the counter or in the refrigerator?
Out on the counter.
Thanks for the recipe, Carrie. Could this be made in the crockpot? Would it do well? Thanks.
I’ve never made it in a crockpot, but my first inclination is to say “no” because the stuffing would probably end up soggy.
This is delicious, my husband and I have made for the last 2 or 3 years! But it makes alot for just 2 people. Do you think it would be ok to freeze half of it for a later date?
Yes, it will freeze well. Make sure to reheat in the oven, not the microwave. 🙂
Have you tried stuffing a turkey with this stuffing?
I’ve never used this stuffing inside a turkey.
Hello,
I’m wondering if you’ve ever made this recipe ahead of time and frozen it? I LOVE this recipe and have made it for the past several years for thanksgiving–this year I have a baby on the way the week before thanksgiving so I’m trying to make some of my favorites ahead of time! Thanks for any experience or tips.
I haven’t tested it, but I think it would work. I would make sure to reheat in the oven and not a microwave.
I would love to make this part of a freezer meal so we could have it more often than once a year! I made this for Thanksgiving last year and my husband said it was the best he’s ever had and I agree. So I’m going to try making and freezing it, this is too good to keep for the holidays!
Coming back to make this again this year! I wanted to try subbing out the sausage though for some bacon…this is how my mom made it. 🙂 Would around 6 slices of uncured bacon work?
Thanks again for this recipe! It’s become a classic. 🙂