12 Healthy Pumpkin Recipes Perfect for Fall

Fall is practically synonymous with pumpkin – lucky for us, it also has plenty of nutritional benefits, but we usually just favor the sugar-laden, processed ones that look tantalizing in bakery windows and billboards. Here are the tastiest pumpkin recipes to nourish you all through autumn and winter.

1. Baked Pumpkin Oatmeal Muffins

Bake a batch of these gluten free, dairy free, and vegetarian pumpkin oatmeal muffins for the easiest breakfast meal prep ever. Perfect for on the go breakfasts where you want that muffin as comfort food, without the extra love handle inches.

2. Skinny Pumpkin Frappuccino

One of the best parts of September rolling around is all the autumn beverages that come back into rotation, especially at our PSL mainstay, Starbucks. Cut the calories and refined sugar by making the DIY pumpkin spice Frappuccino instead.

3. Pumpkin-Banana Bars

These might taste decadent, but thanks to dairy free cream cheese, yogurt, and bananas, you can have a moist and delicious cake that tastes like a coffeeshop guilty pleasure, but without all of those processed consequences.

4. Pumpkin No-bake Energy Bites

Throw away all your energy bars, because these little energy balls are filled with pumpkin and granola goodness that’s sure to get you through the worst Monday slump. It can be thrown in yogurt for breakfast, made a dessert with grilled peaches and whipped cream, or act as a lunch break snack.