Sausage bites with bacon apple jam, pumpkin butter board, candied yams & pumpkin butter nog.

Love fall flavors from Trader Joe’s? One company is willing to pay $1,000 for someone to try all the fall-inspired Pumpkin Palooza foods from the grocery retailer.

A great fall tradition is roasting all the pumpkin seeds that you scoop out of your soon-to-be jack-o’-lantern -- and you’ve more than likely done it in the oven.

So many of those yummy fall recipes for pumpkin bread, muffins, cookies, and pumpkin pie depend on that little can of pumpkin. Whether it’s fresh or canned, pumpkin and squash are super-healthy. A cup of canned has twice as much fiber as fresh pumpkin and is loaded with iron and carotenoids. But don’t confuse canned pumpkin with pumpkin pie mix! Maybe “squash pie” doesn’t have the same appetizing ring as pumpkin pie.

San Antonio – Design Improvised’s owner Haeley Giambalvo shows how you can create fall themed wreaths and pumpkins yourself and keep it inexpensive. The wreath that Haeley creates is made from a wire wreath form and burlap ribbon, and just requires you to bunch the ribbon through the wreath form, glue on your flowers and you are all set to hang it on your door this fall. For the pumpkins you can use vinyl stickers and spray paint from the craft store. You can set the stickers, spray paint the pumpkins and remove the stickers to spell out whatever you wish. For further instructions and more DIY design ideas, go to Design Improvised’s website.

Diana Winters is a San Antonio-area native, Emmy award-winning and GLAAD-nominated journalist and baker who loves the Alamo City. She is the executive producer of SA Live, creator of South Texas PRIDE and co-creator of Texas Eats.

In an exclusive clip from Friday's episode of Mama June: Family Crisis, the 40-year-old mother of four gets candid about her methamphetamine addiction with her 20-year-old daughter, Lauryn Pumpkin Shannon. "The only reason I sold the house, I was dead f**king broke," Mama June tells Pumpkin. "It wasn't something that just started and, 'oh my God, I started using drugs,'" Mama June continues. After Mama June was arrested, Pumpkin was given legal guardianship over Mama June's youngest daughter, Alana "Honey Boo Boo" Thompson. Mama June: Family Crisis airs Fridays at 9 p.m. on WE tv.