You can increase or decrease the level of zero wasteness (if that’s a thing) of this recipe and cost of making depending on how the ingredients are sourced.

1 litre of vegetable or chicken stock.

1 medium sized pumpkin or two small squashes with seeds removed but skin left on and pulp retained.

You don’t even need to cook them – they are edible raw too! I didn’t used to know that and I would first gut and chuck the innards of my squash or pumpkin as well as peeling it before making it into soup or roasting it (or if I did roast it with skin on I didn’t eat it) – what a waste! Now I make zero waste pumpkin soup instead! Zero Waste Pumpkin Soup Recipe Ingredients – serves 6-8

Plus the soft, sometimes stringy flesh otherwise known as pulp surrounding the seeds is edible. The edible parts include the skin, the seeds, the shells of the seeds. If you click through and buy something, it won’t cost you anything extra, but it will help to support the blog – thanks! Please note this article contains an affiliate link marked with an asterisk.

Pumpkin with edible kin