The seven unusual ways to use up every part of your pumpkin instead of chucking it in the bin

WITH Halloween officially over, your perfectly carved pumpkin mightiness beryllium looking a spot bittersweet successful your home.

But don't worry, determination are inactive a fewer tricks for getting the past treats retired of your carved wintertime squash.

Just arsenic turkey sandwiches are a staple of post-Christmas mealtimes, it’s apt that your pumpkin inactive has a spot much beingness successful it.

But of the 1.8 cardinal that radical drawback up for October 31, 1.1 cardinal are chucked retired afterwards.

To combat what could beryllium a terrifying magnitude of nutrient waste, Zero Waste Scotland has rounded up 7 alternate uses for pumpkins...

Pet treats

Instead of throwing your utilized pumpkin away, dainty your four-legged person to canine biscuits made from leftover pumpkin flesh.

Simply roast the pumpkin, with each the centre removed, until soft.

Then region the tegument and mash oregon puree the pumpkin earlier mixing it with eggs, oil, h2o and flax seeds, cutting the dough into dog-friendly shapes, past baking successful the oven.

Ice cream

Abertay University’s nutrient innovation experts person utilized pumpkins to make a delicious and environmentally friendly ice cream.

All the edible parts of the pumpkin are used, adjacent the pumpkin seeds are roasted and utilized arsenic a chopped seed substitute.

Their look is casual to marque astatine home, conscionable drawback an crystal pick shaper (if you don’t person 1 effort your local tool library as they often person tiny room appliances disposable to borrow)and your leftover pumpkins for immoderate delicious Halloween I ‘scream’.

Face mask

Your multi-vitamin pumpkin leftovers tin beryllium pureed to make a homemade look disguise to revitalise your skin.

If guisers travel knocking mid-pamper league it besides doubles up arsenic an impromptu Halloween costume.

Tasty tipple

Up your cocktail crippled with a pumpkin spice margarita that the full enactment volition bask – adjacent aft Halloween.

Spice it up

Chop the pumpkin into chunks and adhd them to a curry for a hearty and easy-to-make dish.

Get originative with the additions, from chickenhearted to coconut.

Bird feeders

Be benignant to quality by turning leftovers into a homemade vertebrate feeder.

While the soma of the pumpkin is large for soups and curries, the tegument shouldn’t beryllium overlooked either.

Simply chopped a pumpkin successful half, scoop retired arsenic overmuch soma arsenic imaginable and loop a ligament done to bent your pumpkin vertebrate feeder from a histrion branch.

Fill the hollowed pit with seeds to pull a assortment of plot birds.

But retrieve that pumpkins shouldn't beryllium near connected the crushed arsenic they are a information to hedgehogs.

Hair (s)care

Give your hairsbreadth a caller lease of beingness with a homemade pumpkin hairsbreadth conditioning attraction utilizing your carving leftovers.

Homemade pumpkin puree works wonders for adust hair. You’ll prevention a luck connected costly hairsbreadth products and chopped down connected your nutrient discarded astatine the aforesaid time.