Pumpkins

cybervic

I bought a medium pumpkin in Aldi yesterday at £1.49, their medium size ones are bigger than Tesco and Asda's Large one.

Ken68

Marrows, and I suppose pumpkins , freeze OK, keep them thick and though they go soft when defrosting they keep shape better.

iammumtoone

Ken68 wrote: »

Marrows, and I suppose pumpkins , freeze OK, keep them thick and though they go soft when defrosting they keep shape better.

I always freezer pumpkin (to make pumpkin pie). I freeze mine in puree form, I find it easier this way.

Willowpop

I am not sure how big they are, but my lidl leaflet says they have pumpkins for £1.

dlusman

10p for really big ones ( the one I got is around 5.5Kg ) in Sainsburys this morning.

As I was walking I could only carry one , but they had loads left and hoping to buy a couple more tomorrow when I have the car

levis2891

anyone been to large tesco's or express and seen if pumpkins are also reduced like sainsburys?

would like to stock up as pumpkin soup freezes well

fionajbanana

My mum always buys a carving pumpkin as they are cheaper per kg. She bought a 3.5kg one for £2 and if she bought that size if was charged per kg - it would be c£6.50!

dlusman

its got to worth buying a few at 10p for the seeds alone.

Following the easy video in post #9 above, I made up a lovely batch of toasted seeds.Got about 100g of seeds from the one I bought yesterday

cybervic

So far, we already had pumpkin seafood soup, pumpkin chowder, pumpkin bread, pumpkin muffin, grilled pumpkin salad, pumpkin risotto and still got half pumpkin left. Next on the list are pumpkin gnocchi, pumpkin & meat stew, pumpkin donut, pumpkin pie. Pumpkin is very versatile and we are not bored of it yet.