30 unique ways to use pumpkin this fall

Fall is the perfect time to warm up your house (and make it smell great!) with breads, cookies or pastries fresh from the oven. It’s also the perfect time to include a bit of pumpkin in your diet, since the orange orbs are so abundant and filled with the antioxidant beta-carotene, which is converted to Vitamin A in the body. Those of us of a certain age know how good Vitamin is for our eyesight. But did you know it’s also essential for healthy skin and for our immune systems?

Try out these 30 ideas to incorporate pumpkin into your fall routine.

• 1. Replace potatoes with pumpkin squash as a low-calorie side dish
• 2. Mix pumpkin seeds with your favorite nut mix
• 3. Roast cinnamon toast pumpkin seeds
• 4. Substitute hummus with an easy pumpkin dip
• 5. Blend a pumpkin pie smoothie
• 6. Make protein pumpkin pancakes
• 7. Switch up your pasta sauce by mixing cooked and diced pumpkin into your marina sauce
• 8. Add pumpkin to your oatmeal
• 9. Bake some pumpkin streusel muffins
• 10. Make pumpkin oat bars
• 11. Find a pumpkin soup recipe
• 12. Make pumpkin turkey chili
• 13. Try chicken and pumpkin lasagna
• 14. Make pumpkin energy bites incorporating pumpkin puree
• 15. Bake pumpkin chocolate chip cookies
• 16. Pumpkin pull-apart bread
• 17. Pumpkin cheesecake
• 18. Pumpkin cupcakes with cream cheese frosting
• 19. Try pumpkin yogurt parfait
• 20. Bake pumpkin spice muffins
• 21. Make pumpkin chocolate chip granola bars
• 22. Try pumpkin chocolate chip scones
• 23. Bake pumpkin cornbread
• 24. Blend a pumpkin pie milkshake
• 25. Bake pumpkin cinnamon rolls
• 26. Fry up pumpkin donut holes
• 27. Freeze some pumpkin ice cream
• 28. Make pumpkin bread pudding
• 29. Cook pumpkin french toast with powdered sugar on top
• 30. Bake a pumpkin bundt cake