Pumpkin carving, anyone?
Will you use your whole pumpkin?
With Thanksgiving behind us, we are now able to fully focus on Halloween. How can you not be all about Halloween when those tempting mini chocolate bars are lining the aisles at the grocery store?
I bet you all have your pumpkin, sitting out there on your porch ready to be carved. When you carve your pumpkin sometime in the coming weeks, I challenge you to use the entire thing. Think of how many things you can do with the seeds? They'll be no good sitting in a landfill, anyway!
Salvage all the seeds and give our Jack-Be-Spicy Pumpkin Seeds a try.
And when your done with your uncarved pumpkins you use for decor, use them for a Honey Pumpkin Pie.
Looking for more Halloween ideas? Check out Canadian Living's Complete guide to ultimate Halloween fun!
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October 14th, 2009 at 10:56 am
Pumpkin Seeds are the reason I look forward to carving the pumpkin for!!! Yum.
October 15th, 2009 at 7:25 pm
Yep, the pumpkins are sitting in the garage waiting for the week before Halloween to be carved. I get questioned daily "so when can I carve my pumpkin?" I keep changing my answer so I don't get bored :p and they correct me of course
We will scoop out the pumpkin seeds to roast in the oven. Lovely. Not too sure about eating the pumpkins after they have sat outside for a week or more, afraid it will be relegated to the compost. I found a stencil on the Disney website to do a Lucifer(bad kitty) from Cinderella, looking forward to that 
October 16th, 2009 at 8:33 pm
We have grown our own every year. So they are organic and we use every last bit of them! This year we have 4.
And our compost pile sprouts mini pumpkins... last year we harvest 31 from one plant.... then when we are finished we throw it back on the pile and Voila next year one or two more plants will sprout. My kids love those mini pumpkins. Not edible, but cute.
October 27th, 2009 at 11:59 am
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