Save a Lot had a damaged pumpkin on clearance for only 99 cents, so I happily bought it! I cooked it up pretty much the same way as last year, but this time I had a bigger steam basket and was able to steam it, although I did have to do it in 3 batches.
The first batch of pumpkin ready to be steamed!
Pumpkin puree can be used to make muffins, pie, soup, baby food and I’m sure many other things!
I also roasted the seeds, which is not only yummy, but also very healthy, check out how to roast pumpkin seeds.
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I seasoned mine with Worcestershire sauce, salt, pepper and garlic powder.
So my 99 cent pumpkin turned into 11 cups of pumpkin puree and almost 1 and a half cups of pumpkin seeds!
99 cents for 11 cups of pumpkin puree and 1 1/2 cups of pumpkin seeds!
What a great deal. Pumpkins are definitely one whole food that can be cheaper to buy than the canned version. I paid $1.50 at a farmers market for my pumpkin, then bought another at a store for much more, my mistake in reading the advertised price.
I need to get busy and get my pumpkins done up too. I have a great big one and two smaller sugar pumpkins. Maybe tomorrow.
I did pumpkins for the first time this year with a friend of mine who routinely cooks up a couple of pumpkins per year. With pumpkin muffins, pumpkin soup, and pumpkin waffles being some favorites in our house, I thought 5 pumpkins would be plenty. Finding them at a flat rate of 1.99 per pumpkin, I got the biggest I could find, and I upped the number to 8 pumpkins, based on the price. 3 days, and lots of food processing later, I got so many 2 cup bags that they wound up costing only 14 cents per bag!