Homemade Pumpkin Purée Recipe to Get You Through the Canned Pumpkin Shortage

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When you hear that there?s a ?canned pumpkin shortage,? you likely picture desperate people (and yourself among them) running for the local grocery store the day before Thanksgiving, only to be left to find another dessert option. But how else can you make your famous pumpkin pie if not with canned pumpkin? But never fear? you can easily whip up a pumpkin purée that?s healthier and tastier than the canned stuff.

While it does look as though the nation?s pumpkin crop is coming up lacking this year, with about one-third of what we can usually expect from the great pumpkin-producing state of Illinois, which typically grows 90 percent of the nation?s pumpkins. But don?t fret ?it?s actually super easy to make your own. To be honest, I?ve been doing it for years for a number of reasons.

First of all, we?re all kind of avoiding canned foods

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