I finally got round to making a huge batch of pumpkin soup at the weekend. I added curry powder and it was delicious. So lots of frugal lunches packed away in the freezerĀ for Autumn.
I also used some of the pumpkin flesh to make pumpkin cake. If you like carrot cake you will certainly like this. I left out the orange peel because I didn’t have any and used standard icing rather than the cream cheese variety. It has made a lovely moist cake. If I make it again I will freeze it in slices for our lunch boxes, probably without the icing though.
The recipe is here.
I have thought of some more things that you can reuse rather than throw away or recycle:
Egg boxes – save for seed trays or kids crafts. If you know someone who keeps hens they may also find them useful
Carrier bags – try not to collect them in the first place, but if you do, they are good bin liners
Envelopes – stick a label over the address and reuse. Collect together and use for writing notes and shopping lists
Banana skins – I have heard that you can use these to polish leather shoes but have yet to try it!
This is an ongoing list so feel free to add your ideas.
Yum on the pumpkin cake! You are so good at coming up with ideas for being frugal!
Thanks! It was really nice, although the icing was rather thrown on by my daughter, who was in a hurry to eat it so it could be prettier š