Expand your Halloween tradition and take advantage of all the vitamins, minerals and phytochemicals pumpkins have to offer.
Pumpkins are great for soup, muffins, bread, pie and toasted seeds.
Clean pumpkin seeds, season and toast in the oven. Pumpkin in muffins and breads provide not only wonderful flavor, but can allow you to reduce some of the fat in the recipe. The first time out reduce the fat by one fourth and see if you like the change, if so you may be able to reduce a little more the next time. And you can't have pumpkin pie without the pumpkin, but you can reduce calories by using evaporated skim milk and egg substitute. As Halloween approaches, savor the versatility and fun of pumpkin.