HALLOWEEN HELP
Dear HIW,
Like many of my friends, I carved a pumpkin to put outside for Halloween. But I didn’t know what to do with the insides. I wasted quite a lot of it this year – how can I reuse it?
Jordan Hicks
This is an important consideration to make during the Halloween period if you wish to help the environment, and one that only a small percentage, like yourself, make. The best way to reduce this food waste is to find other uses for its contents, such as cooking. Although it takes more time, you can remove and roast the seeds to eat and save the pumpkin scraps for soups, pies and vegetable stock. However, if you don’t feel like eating the pumpkin, all of its leftovers can be composted in your garden or donated to a local farm as animal feed.