Run on pumpkin? - Page 2

Toppers · ‎01-01-2015

@Nightowlz wrote:
I bought several cans of pumpkin around Thanksgiving since they were talking about a shortage after the holidays.

I meant to do that myself, but then I forgot about doing that last Fall.

SharkE · ‎08-19-2010

funny, there wasn't around the holidays, but, now , there is !

Can't win....... LOL

chickenbutt · ‎03-09-2010

sharke wrote:
funny, there wasn't around the holidays, but, now , there is !
Can't win....... LOL

Yeah, my observation has been that the pumpkin products start coming in during early Fall. That's when to snag all you'll need.

I usually buy 25-30 cans and I have enough for the puppy's pumpkin in his breakfast (just a spoonful each day), the birdie bread I make for the bird, and any baking I may do for the humans, for the whole year.

For many years there was never a problem getting it all year long but in the last few years they started running out because of problems with the weather causing smaller harvests.

Yahooey · ‎07-09-2010

I don't bake with it but make ginger pumpkin soup - love it in cold weather.

Nightowlz · ‎03-11-2010

@SharkE wrote:
funny, there wasn't around the holidays, but, now , there is !
Can't win....... LOL

They said there would be enough for the holidays. There was so much rain they said there would be a shortage.

SharkE · ‎08-19-2010

Sure must not grow them in Tx. rain is not one of my problems here in Amarillo hahahhahaha I did manage to keep the jacks off my Forsynthia bush transplanted it to my patio area. Now I can enjoy it here in March.

SharkE · ‎08-19-2010

Kachina624 · ‎03-10-2010

I was at Walmart yesterday and they had both Libby's pumpkin puree (you add milk and eggs) and a whole bin of cauliflower.

New Mexico☀️Land Of Enchantment

SharkE · ‎08-19-2010

LOL

Campion · ‎10-21-2011

Maybe new crop cauliflower is coming in. I saw some for the first time a few weeks ago, at a good price and bought it.

Pumpkin--it's monocropped for commercial production, which is to say it is grown primarily in Illinois and Wisconsin and Libby buys all the farmers' crops to make their canned pumpkin. One type, and thus crop failure happens when weather or disease threaten the limited area and type.

We grow plenty of pumpkin locally but it's not always the pie type. In fact, it's occasionally grown right across the street from my development. Love seeing the gold in the fields. But preparing pumpkin puree is time consuming and it's not suitable for home canning (even pressure canners do not get hot enough to safely can puree. Home canners have to pressure can chunks of pumpkin.)

My dogs eat a can of it now and then for tummy problems (like, getting into stuff they shouldn't that gives them the runs.) I like to stock up on dozens of cans but it's a haul from the store. However, you never know when they will be out of it due to these issues.