[BlackAdderess]

Anyone else eat pie from their own pumpkins, and not the canned stuff?

[metmom]

I’ve been using my own pumpkin for cooking but alas, cannot eat it.

[Diana in Wisconsin]

Me! I grew 'Sugar Pie' this past season. They're small, but very 'meaty' and one pumpkin makes a pie.

I was too full to have any on T-Day, so I had a slice for Breakfast the next morning. ;) We finished off the last two slices last night.

[Wissa]

Anyone else eat pie from their own pumpkins, and not the canned stuff?

All my pumpkins go to making pumpkin butter.

[AFB-XYZ]

Anyone else eat pie from their own pumpkins, and not the canned stuff?

No fair to torture us like that! :-)

[Ellendra]

For most of the year, yes. But for Thanksgiving we used a frozen store-bought pie. Too much stuff going on, and not enough stamina.

[greeneyes]

We have no luck with pumpkins, squash etc. The vines die before they even think about being mature.

For the first year ever, we had no pumpkin pie. Since, my daughter ducked out on cooking this year, I decided to just order the holiday package from our local grocery - every thing is pre-cooked and can be ready in about 90 minutes.

Part of that was due to my oven going out so all I would have is a roaster for cooking. So I roasted/baked things one at a time, then transferred to a crock pot to keep warm —in took more than the advertised 90 minutes. Ha.

They substituted pecan pie for the pumpkin, but it made my daughter happy as she prefers it. To me, pumpkin pie is as essential as turkey.

Speaking of Turkey, they also substituted a smoked turkey for the roasted. I had noticed that they offered that option for an additional 10 bucks. So it seems we got a “deal”, which almost none of us appreciated.

We need to scale back to a chicken sized meal - since everyone lives too far away and our group is too small. I have a boat load of leftovers, that I’ve decided to throw in the stock pot and can for soup.

We also got a “deal” from the local grocery - a free 12 lb. turkey with 100 bucks purchase of other stuff - which my list was sure to hit anyway. So we have turkey in the freezer for Christmas or whenever.

The packaged deal was double the cost of last years package, but it did have a few more sides, and we got the free turkey to boot, so I guess it averaged out not too bad.