This afternoon after school my son brought my grandson and granddaughter over and they helped me clean out my pumpkin to carve my jack-o-lanter. My son kept the seeds to roast and we tossed the slimey stuff from the inside, but i save all the scrapings and them boiled them real well and used potato masher to "mush them". My dogs will be having fresh boiled pumpkin on their breakfast kibble the next few mornings. I picked this up fron one of the golden forums. If you haven't carved your jack-o-lantern yet, you might want to try this.