# Any Libby's Libby's Libby's canned pumpkin in your area? **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [September 14, 2011, 3:29am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/any-libbys-libbys-libbys-canned-pumpkin-in-your-area/596245 "2011-09-14T03:29:05Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Oslo\_Ostragoth](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/a9a28c/32.png) [@Oslo\_Ostragoth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Oslo_Ostragoth)\ **Post date:** [September 14, 2011, 3:29am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/any-libbys-libbys-libbys-canned-pumpkin-in-your-area/596245/1 "2011-09-14T03:29:05Z")
Not here. I think the crop near Morton, IL, was wiped out by spring floods or something. ---
**Author:** ![aceplace57](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/aceplace57/32/3500_2.png) [@aceplace57](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/aceplace57)\ **Post date:** [September 14, 2011, 3:30am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/any-libbys-libbys-libbys-canned-pumpkin-in-your-area/596245/2 "2011-09-14T03:30:20Z")
Should be plenty in mid October. There’s lots of other farmers with crops. Canned pumpkin always disappears off the shelves during the summer and then reappears near Thanksgiving. ---
**Author:** ![Rhiannon8404](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/rhiannon8404/32/17929_2.png) [@Rhiannon8404](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rhiannon8404)\ **Post date:** [September 14, 2011, 5:29am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/any-libbys-libbys-libbys-canned-pumpkin-in-your-area/596245/3 "2011-09-14T05:29:23Z")
You can always get canned pumpkin here. There’s just not a much on the shelves spring/summer as there is fall/winter. ---
**Author:** ![aceplace57](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/aceplace57/32/3500_2.png) [@aceplace57](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/aceplace57)\ **Post date:** [September 14, 2011, 5:57am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/any-libbys-libbys-libbys-canned-pumpkin-in-your-area/596245/4 "2011-09-14T05:57:56Z")
I started rationing pumpkin for my dog in late July. She was getting two ice tray cubes of pumpkin. Cut her back to one cube a day. So my last two cans will last until Oct. I’ll buy at least two cases of pumpkin in Nov while it’s plentiful and cheap. That gets me through a full year. I hope it’s not more expensive this year. Crop failure news has me a little nervous. ---
**Author:** ![TBG](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/c89c15/32.png) [@TBG](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TBG)\ **Post date:** [September 14, 2011, 11:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/any-libbys-libbys-libbys-canned-pumpkin-in-your-area/596245/5 "2011-09-14T23:54:34Z")
> [@aceplace57](#): > > I started rationing pumpkin for my dog in late July. She was getting two ice tray cubes of pumpkin. Am I the only one 😕 by this? Is there some reason you feed your dog pumpkin so much? ---
**Author:** ![aceplace57](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/aceplace57/32/3500_2.png) [@aceplace57](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/aceplace57)\ **Post date:** [September 15, 2011, 12:32am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/any-libbys-libbys-libbys-canned-pumpkin-in-your-area/596245/6 "2011-09-15T00:32:59Z")
My dog was often constipated. I’d see her straining and straining in the yard for over 5 minutes. Vet recommended a couple heaping tablespoons of pumpkin in her dry food. One large can fills almost two ice trays. A cube is about two tablespoons of pumpkin. Works great. Dog has normal stools now. I was giving her two cubes because she was so constipated. But, so far she’s doing ok since I had to ration only one a day. > [@TBG](#): > > Am I the only one 😕 by this? > > Is there some reason you feed your dog pumpkin so much? ---
**Author:** ![Aestivalis](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/d6d6ee/32.png) [@Aestivalis](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Aestivalis)\ **Post date:** [September 15, 2011, 1:48am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/any-libbys-libbys-libbys-canned-pumpkin-in-your-area/596245/7 "2011-09-15T01:48:19Z")
Butternut squash is cheap and easy to grow and you can get lots of big ones that last a long time. Store them somewhere cool and periodically cook and freeze them for your dog. ---
**Author:** ![nonacetone](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/nonacetone/32/2819_2.png) [@nonacetone](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/nonacetone)\ **Post date:** [September 15, 2011, 2:33am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/any-libbys-libbys-libbys-canned-pumpkin-in-your-area/596245/8 "2011-09-15T02:33:41Z")
It’s all over the place in my area. No problem finding it at all. I’m in west central Indiana, a few miles from the Illinois state line. ---
**Author:** ![Paul\_in\_Qatar](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/ccd318/32.png) [@Paul\_in\_Qatar](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Paul_in_Qatar)\ **Post date:** [September 15, 2011, 4:03am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/any-libbys-libbys-libbys-canned-pumpkin-in-your-area/596245/9 "2011-09-15T04:03:25Z")
Nope. Canned pumpkin is always hard to get around here. ---
**Author:** ![aceplace57](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/aceplace57/32/3500_2.png) [@aceplace57](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/aceplace57)\ **Post date:** [September 15, 2011, 4:30am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/any-libbys-libbys-libbys-canned-pumpkin-in-your-area/596245/10 "2011-09-15T04:30:13Z")
I forgot to mention… You should only feed a dog pure canned pumpkin. Pumpkin Pie mix has sugar and spices that would tear up a dog’s digestion. ---
**Author:** ![Annie-Xmas](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/ecc23a/32.png) [@Annie-Xmas](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Annie-Xmas)\ **Post date:** [September 15, 2011, 4:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/any-libbys-libbys-libbys-canned-pumpkin-in-your-area/596245/11 "2011-09-15T16:50:10Z")
My food donation box for the last three months has had canned pumpkin in it. The blue bin, where you put what you don’t want and which can be accessed by anyone, is full of the stuff. ---
**Author:** ![mcgato](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/ac8455/32.png) [@mcgato](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/mcgato)\ **Post date:** [September 15, 2011, 11:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/any-libbys-libbys-libbys-canned-pumpkin-in-your-area/596245/12 "2011-09-15T23:06:10Z")
I worked in a canning plant one summer during college. Got waxed beans for a couple of weeks, then green beans for most of the summer. The last couple of days that I was there was the start of the pumpkin canning. That would have been mid-September, and I was in southern Minnesota. I just posted to say that canning pumpkin involves a very bad stench that made me very happy that I was going back to college. ---
**Author:** ![TBG](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/c89c15/32.png) [@TBG](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TBG)\ **Post date:** [September 17, 2011, 9:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/any-libbys-libbys-libbys-canned-pumpkin-in-your-area/596245/13 "2011-09-17T21:42:52Z")
> [@aceplace57](#): > > My dog was often constipated. I’d see her straining and straining in the yard for over 5 minutes. > > Vet recommended a couple heaping tablespoons of pumpkin in her dry food. > > One large can fills almost two ice trays. A cube is about two tablespoons of pumpkin. Works great. Dog has normal stools now. > > I was giving her two cubes because she was so constipated. But, so far she’s doing ok since I had to ration only one a day. Wow, live and learn. If my dog ever gets constipated I hope I can remember this! ---
**Author:** ![salinqmind](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/3ec8ea/32.png) [@salinqmind](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/salinqmind)\ **Post date:** [September 18, 2011, 12:16am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/any-libbys-libbys-libbys-canned-pumpkin-in-your-area/596245/14 "2011-09-18T00:16:38Z")
> [@Aestivalis](#): > > Butternut squash is cheap and easy to grow and you can get lots of big ones that last a long time. Store them somewhere cool and periodically cook and freeze them for your dog. This is an excellent idea for cooking purposes. Don’t know about constipated doggies, though… I Just read because of Hurricane Irene the Indiana pumpkin fields are pretty much shot, and the jack-o-lantern pumpkins in Upstate NY are predicted to be double the price. So be forewarned. It didn’t say anything about squash. But there always seems to be pyramids of all kinds in the stores… Recalling the Great Canned Pumpkin Shortage of a year or two ago, I’m putting canned pumpkin on my shopping list. ---
**Author:** ![drastic\_quench](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/e36b37/32.png) [@drastic\_quench](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/drastic_quench)\ **Post date:** [September 18, 2011, 3:16am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/any-libbys-libbys-libbys-canned-pumpkin-in-your-area/596245/15 "2011-09-18T03:16:11Z")
I have a hard time finding it outside of the holidays. I buy lots of regular canned pumpkin not the pie mix. I make Jacques Pépin’s savory [pumpkin gratin](http://www.kqed.org/w/morefastfoodmyway/episode206.html). > [@](#): > > The only way I ate pumpkin as a child was in a savory gratin, so the first time I had it in the United States – sweet, in a pie – I thought it was a mistake. I’ve come to love pumpkin pie and I still enjoy pumpkin in the gratin of my youth. The combination of Swiss cheese, eggs, and cream comes together into something like a smooth and creamy soufflé, capturing the flavors of fall. Canned pumpkin speeds things up. ---
**Author:** ![salinqmind](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/3ec8ea/32.png) [@salinqmind](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/salinqmind)\ **Post date:** [September 19, 2011, 3:29am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/any-libbys-libbys-libbys-canned-pumpkin-in-your-area/596245/16 "2011-09-19T03:29:22Z")
Oh-oh! All I found on the store shelf were big cans of pumpkin pie FILLING and a scattering of pricey organic pumpkin puree. The shortage continues. ---
**Author:** ![simster](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/simster/32/1047_2.png) [@simster](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/simster)\ **Post date:** [September 19, 2011, 3:44am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/any-libbys-libbys-libbys-canned-pumpkin-in-your-area/596245/17 "2011-09-19T03:44:04Z")
The lack of it has forced me to start making my own - surprisingly easy, still working on getting the right flavor/taste - but getting closer - trying to not have it quite so sweet and not looking for it to be ‘pie’ - almost a pumpkin butter. ---
**Author:** ![Oslo\_Ostragoth](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/a9a28c/32.png) [@Oslo\_Ostragoth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Oslo_Ostragoth)\ **Post date:** [September 19, 2011, 4:22am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/any-libbys-libbys-libbys-canned-pumpkin-in-your-area/596245/18 "2011-09-19T04:22:09Z")
> [@salinqmind](#): > > … I Just read because of Hurricane Irene the Indiana pumpkin fields are pretty much shot, and the jack-o-lantern pumpkins in Upstate NY are predicted to be double the price. So be forewarned. It didn’t say anything about squash. But there always seems to be pyramids of all kinds in the stores… Recalling the Great Canned Pumpkin Shortage of a year or two ago, I’m putting canned pumpkin on my shopping list. The Morton, Illinois people claim that 80% of the canned pumpkin in the world is canned there. If they had a crop failure, there is not much hope for most of us. I tried a Google news search for a Morton pumpkin crop failure, but I haven’t found a reference yet. Either I imagined it, or maybe it happened last year, leading to shortages now. ---
**Author:** ![aceplace57](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/aceplace57/32/3500_2.png) [@aceplace57](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/aceplace57)\ **Post date:** [September 19, 2011, 5:25am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/any-libbys-libbys-libbys-canned-pumpkin-in-your-area/596245/19 "2011-09-19T05:25:24Z")
I saw a few pumpkins in my Kroger last week. I wouldn’t want to go through the hassle of peeling, slicing them and boiling for a puree. Hopefully the canned stuff will appear in another two or three weeks. I’ve found the generic Kroger brand to be as good as libbys and cheaper. I’ve only seen one tv chef brave enough to tackle a fresh pumpkin pie from a pumpkin. Curtis Stone did it once on _Take on Chef_ for a Thanksgiving special. Looked like a lot of hassle and one pumpkin didn’t yield all that much puree either. ---
**Author:** ![Roland\_Orzabal](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/c2a13f/32.png) [@Roland\_Orzabal](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Roland_Orzabal)\ **Post date:** [September 19, 2011, 6:13am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/any-libbys-libbys-libbys-canned-pumpkin-in-your-area/596245/20 "2011-09-19T06:13:19Z")
Lived all over the east coast, from northern New York to southwest Virginia to coastal Florida. Never had a clue that Libby’s pumpkin mix was hard to find anywhere in the lower 48. As **aceplace** implies, I don’t know what I’d do without it. I’ll gladly take the time to make my own cheesecakes, which ought to say something, but…pumpkin pie? Talk about low ROI. Canned stuff every time, danke. [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/any-libbys-libbys-libbys-canned-pumpkin-in-your-area/596245.md?page=2)