Pumpkins

[goingbacktothecaves]

AIBU to not buy pumpkins this year , i try to not have any food waste and feel that throwing perfectly good food away after cutting some scary shaped holes in it is really bad for the environment. Surely we should be using the land and water to grow food that will get eaten?

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Don't throw it away? Take it for local animals!! Ours go to a local woodland area, all the animals adore them.

Come on ! Live a little

Eat it?

Don't throw them away then? I buy pumpkins every year and after Halloween they get used as soup. 🤷🏻‍♀️

We buy pumpkins, let them sit around looking pretty for a bit (to embrace the autumn festive spirit), then eat them. I think they stopped making it compulsory for people to carve scary things into them a few years ago.

Why don't you eat it?

They’re grown for size and shape - for the purpose of being carved for Halloween - not for food. They wouldn’t otherwise be eaten, except maybe by animals. Some people might claim to make good soup out of them after Halloween but it will taste rank - even more so after carving it, leaving it for a day or two and then smoking it out with a tea light.

Don't leave them out, they are dangerous to hedgepigs

You do know you can eat them, ours get eaten every year.

I don’t mean all pumpkins obviously, I mean the bright orange ones that appear in massive boxes in supermarkets at Halloween.

I live near the woods and people leave their pumpkins for the wildlife

oh wow...what am i reading!??i grew my own this year, perfectly happy for them to be used decoratively then they are a free for all out side....but i will keep some seeds. for next year

Ours go to a local woodland area, all the animals adore them.

Don't do this, it looks like shit and takes ages for the rind to break down. (Never understand why people dump orange peel and banana skins in the woods and mountains either).

Use the scooped out middle for soup and cut up the shell after it has been used and put it in the compost.

I thought this when browsing the supermarket today, pumpkins of all sizes and colours available including tiny ones. I guess they are for people to make instagramable displays?

www.woodlandtrust.org.uk/blog/2019/10/what-to-do-with-pumpkins/

We use the inside to eat, roast some of the seeds and keep the rest to freeze to feed to the hamsters throughout the year. They love them

Eat it then! Pumpkin soup/ pie?

@BrisbaneandGone

Don't leave them out, they are dangerous to hedgepigs

I didn't know this. Thank you! We have a hedgepig nearby so I'll let thes neighbours know too.

Please don’t dump your pumpkins in woodlands.
The wildlife in woods funnily enough has not evolved to farm and eat pumpkins.
They will just rot horribly, look disgusting, attract rats and disrupt the native woodland ecosystem.

Apparently they can cause severe diarrhoea leading to dehydration which can kill them 😔

That was to @Goldchick

Why not eat it? There are lots of lovely pumpkin recipes.

I then leave the shells for deer and other animals in the woodland near my house.

(With permission from the estate owner - he says pumpkins are fine for the deer)

@BrisbaneandGone

Apparently they can cause severe diarrhoea leading to dehydration which can kill them 😔

That is so sad! I'm going to see if I can find a poster to download and print off and stick through the neighbours doors.