Each year Americans throw \u00b1 1 BIllION pounds of pumpkins away, ending up in landfills and creating lots of harmful greenhouse gases.
It’s easy to forget that Halloween pumpkins are edible! But they are all edible and there are a lot of other ways to use them besides eating them.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
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<\/figure>\n\n\n\nThe majority of people don\u2019t actually want to waste their pumpkins, they simply don\u2019t know what to do with them. In this post I am going to share different ideas that you can do with your Halloween pumpkins, whether you carved them or just bought them as decorations.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
We can see most of people Halloween’s content online full of pumpkins, butternuts and other squashes. They are indeed really cute, but I was really surprised when some friends told me that after Halloween, they just threw them away in the woods or garbage.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Such a shame because all of these last way longer than that. I actually buy different varieties when autumn starts and keep them until the first weeks of winter.<\/p>\n\n\n\n![\"How](\"http:\/\/test.scrapsandcoffeegrounds.comwp-content\/uploads\/2023\/11\/ec4fa-dsc_9878-13149607146872976564.jpg?w=683&h=1024\")
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How you can avoid the waste?<\/h1>\n\n\n\n
First of all when you carve your pumpkins you can keep the seeds and roasted them or use them to plant them.<\/h2>\n\n\n\n
If you want to roast them: you just need a little vegetable oil (I always use olive oil) salt and paprika, and bake it for 15 min.
Other roasted seeds flavor ideas are: honey and cinnamon, turmeric and curry or garlic and parmesan.<\/p>\n\n\n\n![\"How](\"http:\/\/test.scrapsandcoffeegrounds.comwp-content\/uploads\/2023\/11\/225e8-20221121-dsc_01341704501052745084811.jpg?w=683&h=1024\")
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