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My girls LOVE pumpkin chocolate chip muffins, so just yesterday I started up a batch (my third this summer). I had intended to halve the recipe, but midway realized I had not. After all the wet ingredients were mixed, I realized I was short a can of pumpkin. Wrapped it up, put it in the fridge, piled the girls into the car and off we went to our local Hannafords (our second trip that day!) Horrors of all horrors, the shelf was depleted of canned pumpkin. There had been several cans earlier that morning. What wierdos besides me use so much pumpkin during the summer?! I checked at three other stores only to come out empty handed. So much for pumpkin muffins until the holidays I suppose.