Pumpkin offers

Edwardia

Tesco has two pumpkins for £3 at the moment but if you only want one or Sainsbury's is nearer, Sainsbury's is doing same size pumpkin for 1.50 each

If you want to make a more pumpkiny soup than the New Covent Garden Soup Company version (theirs only 9% pumpkin) the recipe for it is on their website https://www.newcoventgardensoup.com To get the smokey flavour suggest either smoked paprika (can be expensive) or a few drops of that smokey BBQ flavouring or just chargrilling the peppers and leaving skins on.

If you find other pumpkin offers or have pumpkin recipes please add here :T

Meadows

Not a Pumpkin lover I much prefer Butternut Squash.

Middy

Edwardia wrote: »

Tesco has two pumpkins for £3 at the moment but if you only want one or Sainsbury's is nearer, Sainsbury's is doing same size pumpkin for 1.50 each

If you want to make a more pumpkiny soup than the New Covent Garden Soup Company version (theirs only 9% pumpkin) the recipe for it is on their website www.newcoventgardensoup.com To get the smokey flavour suggest either smoked paprika (can be expensive) or a few drops of that smokey BBQ flavouring or just chargrilling the peppers and leaving skins on.

If you find other pumpkin offers or have pumpkin recipes please add here :T

A jar of smoked paprika is £1.19 at Sainsburys. I don't call that expensive.

Middy

My mum makes with pumpkin:
. soup
. muffins
. Sweet pumpkin pie
. pasty - pumpkin in a cheese sauce with other veg wrapped in shortcrust pastry
. loaf - very similar to the muffins

Not too sure she is cooking with a pumpkin this year as half her kitchen stuff is still in boxes in the garage. Moved house late August and having some extra cupboards fitted within the next 3 weeks.

browneyedbazzi

Pumpkin pie is lovely...I'll be buying/roasting/pur!eing some pumpkin to freeze so I have some to use through the year.

My recipe is:
4C pumpkin Puree
1 can of sweetened condensed milk
2 eggs
1t cinnamon
1/2t ginger
1/2t nutmeg
1/2t salt

Whisk together, pour into a pie crust and bake at 425F for 10 minutes then reduce the heat to 350F and bake for another 35 to 40 minutes until a knife comes out clean. Once it's cool top with whipped cream to serve...yumm!!

Need to keep an eye out for sweetened condensed milk offers now!

Edwardia

Meadows if you're veggie butternut squash roasted in cubes with Parmesan is awesome and if you're not, in latest issue of Waitrose magazine (free to myWaitrose cardholders) there's a recipe for butternut squash wrapped in bacon.

Middy, dried herbs and spices in Lidl are generally no more than 79p and though I'm buying organic where I can, I'd wince at 1.19 for non organic paprika I have to say. The pumpkin pasty sound yummy mmm

browneyedbazzi which pumpkin puree have you tried ? I've used Libby's as pumpkin mash as I can get it on Ocado and Waitrose.

Meadows

Edwardia wrote: »

Meadows if you're veggie butternut squash roasted in cubes with Parmesan is awesome and if you're not, in latest issue of Waitrose magazine (free to myWaitrose cardholders) there's a recipe for butternut squash wrapped in bacon.

Hi,

No not a vegetarian, but very careful in what I eat fats wise, after losing 4st since the back end of February. I sort of did it the Weight Watcher way but did not join just found all the in's and outs from various sites on line.
You think you eat small portions until you really look at this and find they really are not.
Anyway I stick to the daily points, seldom use the weekly ones or the activity ones, never feel hungry and so tend to watch fats etc. (not avoid them as the body need some fats - infact on WW you are not deprived of anything as long as you stick to your points allowance).

I will take a look at those recipes mentioned as they might be usable on days when I have used minimum points and maybe adapt them to less points. But Butternut squash is yummy no matter whether in soups, roasted or many dishes (and free points to boot :j).

hkminca

Asda are doing pumpkins for 87p, got one the other day and it was a really good size.

VfM4meplse

^^^^ That is a good price, I usually swoop just after Halloween as you can get a lot of pumpkin for much less money then!

zzzLazyDaisy

Okay this might be a really stupid question....

But is there a difference between the big pumpkins for hollowing out for halloween, and the pumpkins that you use in recipes?



Dx

steviedeal

yes there is, carving pumpkins are usually more stringy and have a lot more water in them where as pumpkins sold as eating pumpkins are less stringy and less water ( more pulply if that makes sense). carving pumpkins can still be eaten just usually not as good as the other.