Noooooooo! If you can find a fresh pumpkin, it's amazingly easy to prepare it for pie filling and it will taste better than the can. If anyone has any good recipes or links online, drop them in the comments. Thanksgiving just isn't Thanksgiving without pumpkin pie.
Nestle -- which sells nearly all the canned pumpkin in the U.S. -- says poor weather hurt its harvest, creating a potential shortage of its Libby's pumpkin pie products through the holidays.
The company said heavy rains made it nearly impossible to pick its pumpkins during this year's harvest. The longer the pumpkins sit in the muddy fields, the more they deteriorate. As a result, the company announced this week that it would not pack any more pumpkins for the season -- which means it may be hard to find its canned pumpkin and pumpkin pie filling product until next year's harvest.
"Mother Nature had other plans for us," the company said in an open apology to customers online.
