{"id":17625,"date":"2017-10-25T12:44:00","date_gmt":"2017-10-25T16:44:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.befrugal.com\/blog\/?p=17625"},"modified":"2017-10-25T12:47:29","modified_gmt":"2017-10-25T16:47:29","slug":"17625","status":"archive","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.befrugal.com\/blog\/frugal-articles\/17625\/","title":{"rendered":"October 26 is National Pumpkin Day"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.befrugal.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/Happy-National-Pumpkin-Day.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-large wp-image-17626\" src=\"https:\/\/www.befrugal.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/Happy-National-Pumpkin-Day-1024x576.png\" alt=\"Happy National Pumpkin Day!\" width=\"1024\" height=\"576\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.befrugal.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/Happy-National-Pumpkin-Day-1024x576.png 1024w, https:\/\/www.befrugal.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/Happy-National-Pumpkin-Day-300x169.png 300w, https:\/\/www.befrugal.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/Happy-National-Pumpkin-Day.png 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>October 26 is National Pumpkin Day, but there are reasons to celebrate pumpkins all season long. Here are a few little-known facts and fun recipes to celebrate fall's favorite gourd:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Pumpkins are technically a fruit (they are in the gourd family), but are often called a vegetable because of their savory flavor.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li>You won't find many calories in pumpkins - which makes them a healthy treat. A cup of canned pumpkin has only 80 calories.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li>Pumpkin is also quite nutritious. They are low-fat and an excellent source of potassium, fiber and Vitamin A.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li>Canned pumpkin is inexpensive, so cooking with pumpkin is quite frugal. Try these recipes:\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/allrecipes.com\/recipe\/210943\/frugal-pumpkin-pasta\/\" target=\"_blank\">Frugal Pumpkin Pasta from AllRecipes<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/thefrugalgirls.com\/pumpkin-recipes\" target=\"_blank\">25 Pumpkin Recipes from The Frugal Recipes<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.frugalfarmwife.com\/article\/pumpkin-spice-no-bake-cookies-recipe\/\" target=\"_blank\">Pumpkin Spice No-Bake Cookies from the Frugal Farm Wife<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.myfrugalfitness.com\/2012\/10\/frugal-healthy-recipe-pumpkin-walnut.html\" target=\"_blank\">Pumpkin Walnut Oatmeal from Frugal Fitness<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li>Try larger pumpkins for carving, and use smaller pumpkins (less than 10 pounds) for cooking and baking - they have a better flavor.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Check out <a href=\"https:\/\/www.befrugal.com\/coupons\/search\/pumpkin\/\" target=\"_blank\">BeFrugal for coupons<\/a> the next time you pick up canned pumpkin at the grocery store.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<a href=\"https:\/\/www.befrugal.com\/blog\/frugal-articles\/17625\/\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\" class=\"excerptimage alignleft wp-post-image tfe\" alt=\"\" title=\"\" \/><\/a><p>October 26 is National Pumpkin Day, but there are reasons to celebrate pumpkins all season long. Here are a few little-known facts and fun recipes to celebrate fall's favorite gourd: ... <a title=\"October 26 is National Pumpkin Day\" class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.befrugal.com\/blog\/frugal-articles\/17625\/\">Read more<span class=\"screen-reader-text\">October 26 is National Pumpkin Day<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":15,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[2203,2391,398,419,603,703,3355,3353,2952,3354,1173,1348,3356],"class_list":["post-17625","post","type-post","status-archive","format-standard","hentry","category-frugal-articles","tag-autumn","tag-cheap","tag-cooking","tag-coupons","tag-fall","tag-frugal","tag-gourd","tag-healthy","tag-national-pumpkin-day","tag-nutrition","tag-october","tag-recipes","tag-squash"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.befrugal.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17625","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.befrugal.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.befrugal.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.befrugal.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/15"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.befrugal.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=17625"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.befrugal.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17625\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.befrugal.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=17625"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.befrugal.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=17625"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.befrugal.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=17625"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}