Pumpkin season...ways to use them up.

Among the useful pieces of information in the inbox this evening is the helpful fact that up to 18,000 tons of pumpkin are thrown away every year in the UK. at around this time of year, often finding their way into landfill.

This is the same weight as 6000 Asian elephants (apparently,)

The Green Suffolk page here gives you some advice about how to avoid this wasteage, including recipes to help you to use up the pumpkins.  Unfortunately I think that pumpkin pie is pretty awful, and there is a limit to the amount of pumpkin soup you can eat.  There are other suggestions however, including roasting the seeds (a practice popular in Russia).

 Composting is of course an alternative if you can't face eating the orange mush.