Aside From Eating It Out of the Jar, Here Are 10 Healthy Ways to Use Trader Joe's Pumpkin Butter

Before using this Pumpkin Butter in your healthy recipes, you're probably curious to know the nutritional info. The ingredients in Trader Joe's Pumpkin Butter don't actually contain butter, so while it is dairy-free, it contains honey so it's technically not vegan. A one-tablespoon serving is 40 calories, 10 grams of carbs, 9 grams of sugar, and offers 20 percent of your daily vitamin A. It tastes sweet and perfectly spiced.

Forget the brown sugar or maple syrup and add a small spoonful of pumpkin butter, almond butter, cinnamon, and some chopped pecans to your cooked oatmeal.

Skip the maple syrup and spread a little pumpkin butter on your homemade gingerbread pancakes or waffles.

Mix your cut-up root veggies like carrots, sweet potatoes, squash, and parsnips with a little pumpkin butter before roasting.

Take almond, peanut, or cashew butter and mix in a little pumpkin butter to spread on toast, crackers, or banana or apple slices.

Mash some sweet potato with a little pumpkin butter for a treat that's healthier than topping yours with marshmallows.

Jazz up a pumpkin protein smoothie by adding a dollop of pumpkin butter to the blender.

Add a sweet and spiced flavor to plain baked sweet potatoes. It would taste amazing on this almond butter banana breakfast recipe.

Add a little sweetness to savory soups like coconut curried butternut squash and pumpkin bisque by stirring in a spoonful of pumpkin butter to your bowl before eating.

Mix a little pumpkin butter with apple cider vinegar, olive oil, dijon mustard, and diced shallots to make a sweet and tangy salad dressing.

Flavor plain yogurt (any kind) with pumpkin butter and top with fruit and granola.