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Well, hello there and welcome back. My name is Stephanie Safarian and you were listening to episode 214 of the Sustainable

Minimalist Podcast, a twice weekly show about intentional and eco-minimalist

living. Now fall is here in New England for sure at least and for me that means apple picking pumpkin

carving sweater wearing fire having etc etc love fall and so today I'm answering a question that I received about how on earth to reduce food waste

as we're carving our pumpkins and picking our apples.

Now I should say that this question did not come from a listener and instead came from a

reporter who interviewed me about reducing food waste in the fall and so I thought to myself wow what a great question let's make an episode out of it.

So on part one we're talking about using a whole pumpkin how do we do that instead of throwing out the guts throwing out the seeds throwing the pumpkin in the trash after Halloween comes and goes what can we do instead and then because I thought to myself well what's fall without apple picking?

Hello I live in New England. Let's talk about apples too.

So in part two of this episode I'm talking about some ideas for using the

whole apple as opposed to just eating around the core than

trashing the core. Okay so let's get into pumpkins first, right? You can buy

pumpkin seeds at the store. They're called papitas and they're hulled and they're lovely

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