Food

🎃Don't Let Your Pumpkin Go to Waste

The spookiest thing about Halloween? Millions and millions of tasty pumpkins going in the bin. After carving, too many pumpkins are simply thrown away. And their role as a jack o’ lantern casts a spooky shadow over their true purpose – dinner! In fact, here's a treat for you - carving pumpkins are edible, and they're delicious too. (Hubbub)

👉🥗Eat it - ❄️Freeze it - 🎨Create with it - 🌱Compost it

🥗Eat it

• Make pumpkin soup, pumpkin curry, or classic pumpkin pie.            
• Roast the seeds for a snack.
• Bake some leftover pumpkin brownies.

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❄️ Freeze it

• Chop into cubes and freeze.
• Make pumpkin puree and freeze in tubs.
• Great for pumpkin puree smoothies.

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🎨Create with it

• Turn pumpkin into bird feeder.
• Pumpkin seed crafts for kids.
• Use leftovers for a natural face mask.

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🌱 Compost it

• Put it in your food waste caddy
• Compost at home in your compost bin.
• Make use of our discounted compost bins here if you haven't got one.

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🎃More Pumpkin recipes

• Love Food Hate Waste Pumpkin recipes
• Hubbub Eat Your Pumpkin recipes
• BBC Good Food Pumpkin recipes
  

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🍬 Trick-or-Treat Tips

✅Choose foil wrapped or paper packaged sweets.

❌ Avoid single-use plastic wrappers.

Remember, foil or paper wrappers can be recycled.

Check Waste wizard if your unsure what goes where➡️

🎃 Join the Pumpkin Pledge 

This year, pledge to:

👉🥗Eat it - ❄️Freeze it - 🎨Create with it - 🌱Compost it

📸We'd love to see your pumpkin creations! Send us pictures of your carvings or favourite pumpkin recipes and tips to waste@gloucestershire.gov.uk an we'll share our favourites to inspire others.