We eat pumpkin. Anything you can do with other winter squash, you can do with pumpkin.

Actually, there are places in the US that do roast the pumpkin seeds. I roast them with some olive oil and sea salt in my oven for about two hours. My kids love them.

(January 3, 2016 at 3:08 am)Judi Lynn Wrote: Actually, there are places in the US that do roast the pumpkin seeds. I roast them with some olive oil and sea salt in my oven for about two hours. My kids love them.

We used to roast the seeds right after pumpkin carving. They are good.

That's what we do too. Of course you can purchase them already packaged at the store year round, but I like the tradition that my kids and I have made. It makes it more special to only have them in the fall.

I selected fresh in the poll, even though I sometimes use canned (tinned for those of you in Aus/UK) or frozen.

Why?

Fresh corn is only available at a reasonable price a few months out of the year, and the brand of canned corn I buy is quite decent.

Canned tomatoes and tomato paste for sauce (yes, yes, they're a fruit). Making sauce from whole tomatoes is both more time consuming and cost prohibitive - and much of the year, the tomatoes aren't that great.

Cut green beans - they are often quite expensive fresh, and I actually like the canned variety well enough.

I try to buy fresh when I can. There's a challenge when you live alone to keep vegetables fresh between trips to the grocer, unless one goes very frequently. I don't like to throw food away.

Some veggies are okay canned, but the only things I might buy canned are green beans, peaches and pears. The rest I buy either fresh or frozen.

(January 2, 2016 at 11:44 pm)Aractus Wrote:

(January 2, 2016 at 10:53 pm)thesummerqueen Wrote: Hello, snob, I think your organic, poor-hating commune misses you.

Tinned food isn't cheaper. If you're on a tight budget you're better off buying the cheap veggies likes carrot that can be had for $1-2/kg year-round, and of course rice. Pumpkin can be readily had for around $2.50/kg for much of the year as well (as it is right now as it happens):



If it did come in a tin it'd be very unlikely to be cheaper than (or even the same as) the fresh price.

Canned food is cheaper than fresh always. Not as healthy, not as tasty, not as expensive. Why anyone would want to eat pumpkin canned or otherwise is beyond me. That shit is nasty.

Also, the things in your picture are not pumpkins. Just saying.

(January 3, 2016 at 12:31 am)Thumpalumpacus Wrote: I eliminated canned veggies from my diet 16 years ago. I will use canned tomato sauce for Italian food, but other than that the only canned foods in my house are in my emergency kit.

You can make your own tomato sauce and it's really easy

I very rarely eat vegetables.

(January 3, 2016 at 2:32 pm)Pony Wrote: I very rarely eat vegetables.

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