Pumpkins

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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?

I compost mine so that they eventually grow new food in my garden

YANBU, very wasteful.

We made pumpkin cake, pumpkin pancakes and pumpkin soup last year, plus added it to a couple of casseroles. Yum. realfood.tesco.com/recipes/spiced-pumpkin-toffee-apple-cake.html Just found this recipe which I might try this year. Don’t look at calories per slice!

@GoldChick does this help? It's doing the rounds on Facebook.



Is a hedgepig just a middle class hedgehog?

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Anyone who visits a ‘pumpkin patch’ needs to get a life!

Just eat them afterwards. The guts can be made into lovely muffins, toast the seeds and cut up and roast the pumpkin after Halloween.

Put them up high squirrels will eat them then the rest goes into the wormery I might struggle this year but we have a marsh full if squirrels close by with trees I can wedge some in noone minds as long as they are not on the ground

OP, do you ever buy flowers? They are grown on land that could be used for food.
Halloween pumpkins are a decoration, just like flowers are.
Surely it is better to have a biodegradable decoration than buying a load of plastic Halloween tat shipped in from China?

Oh bugger off on a Friday night ... if this is all you have to worry about then you should count yourself lucky . Don't buy the pumpkin 🤷🏻‍♀️ . Il just buy another one to make up for it 🤪

You're supposed to eat them?

Eat them? We made muffins last year.... Got the idea from Stacey Solomon of all people, they were lovely

@Airyfairymarybeary much better to visit a 'pumpkin patch' at a local farm than buy overpriced ones from a supermarket where they've been mass produced and GM'd to high heaven to look perfect 🤷‍♀️

Surely it is better to have a biodegradable decoration than buying a load of plastic Halloween tat shipped in from China?

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I've nothing to say against anyone who has fun visiting a pumpkin patch but I seriously doubt that would be a cheaper source than Aldi.
Obv more eco and ethical, but not cheaper.

I make ours into Thai style soup the day after. Onion, red chilli, ginger, chicken stock, coconut milk, delish.

Didn't have any ideas of dangers to hedgehogs!! Our local area encourage people to take pumpkins to the woodlands for feed the animals - I'll send a few of these posts and double check if they were aware!

I've thought this too, OP. My local supermarket stocks "non culinary pumpkins" at Halloween, so presumably they're not edible. They'll have taken a lot of space and water to grow, a lot of petrol and lorry space to transport (being large and bulky), all for one night's decoration. It seems so wasteful.

Why not eat it and compost the rest?

I get decorative gourds from Aldi don't carve them and then make pasta sauce or soup. They keep pretty well.

Sainsburys sell ‘carving’ ones and ‘cooking’ ones. They are lovely in soup.

Yes buy one you can eat. Or go proper old school and use a turnip and eat that. I also had a halloween pineapple once. That was obviously tasty with zero effort, but probably not so good on the air miles front!

Do you know anyone with chickens? Ours love the middle bits (guts) , seeds and flesh. They hollow one completely then we compost the rinds (broken up). No waste at all.

You don't have to throw them away. There's loads of things you can make with pumpkins.
I grown my own, and will be making dog biscuits and all sorts with them.
YABU to think that land should just be for growing edible things.

so OP, do you never ever buy a bunch of flowers?