Food Donations

Give canned pumpkin puree. It's a nutrient-dense vegetable. In fact, it may prove difficult to find a more nutrient-dense vegetable available in canned form. It lasts a year or more in a can - and stays delicious and nutrient-dense. It can replace baking supplies such as flour and sugar, or it can go with a main dish such as pumpkin and fish - an indigenous dish in many countries. It can also pair well with roasted caribou, or game fowl. A donation of pumpkin can encourage more eating of traditional foods.

Pumpkin has high amounts of vitamin A, which some suggest reverses eating disorders, further encouraging communities to eat better, and maybe even eat more country food.

Pumpkin makes diabetes-friendly desserts easy.

Simply mixed pumpkin puree with coco powder and eggs makes delicious brownies or chocolate cake. Or add cinnamon and ginger instead of coco powder. It's a healthy dessert - is it still right to call it a "dessert" if one can eat without guilt?

Pumpkin puree can also be dried, or mixed with corn flour and fried. It then pairs very nicely dipped in soy sauce.

Pumpkin can be used in many spicy dishes, such an Chinese Szechuan or Indian curry.

It can be baked into puffy, moist breads with little more than eggs and coconut flour, or be made into cheesy cornbread biscuits for chili and stews.

Giving pumpkin puree keeps giving; it gives Inuit choice because of its versatility. It gives nutrients. A can of pumpkin puree in the pantry can be combined with any other ingredient to make breakfast, lunch, dinner, dessert or snack at the convenience of a family.