Carving a pumpkin this fall? Don't throw any of it away!
By Jeff Yeager Posted Mon Oct 12, 2009 10:44am PDT
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VeggiesMore from The Green Cheapskate blog"Jeff, can't we at least celebrate the holiday before you eat the decorations?" I've heard that more than once from my
long-suffering wife during our 26-year marriage.
You see, cheapskates like to celebrate Halloween and other holidays just like everyone else. But we grimace at wasteful rituals like throwing away a perfectly good pumpkin after using it for only a few days as a decoration. Americans buy more than one billion pounds of pumpkins at Halloween, and the vast majority of those end up in the trash. But at the Green Cheapskate's house, we eat our jack-o-lantern, every last bit of it.
While some particularly meaty varieties of pumpkins are specifically grown to be eaten (including Sweet Jack-be-Littles, Cheese Pumpkins, Sugar Pumpkins, and some delicious heirloom vari…
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