You look into its eyes. Bright eyes. It's not alive. But it's not really what you'd call dead. Today's the day to carve your pumpkin. Very carefully. Press Play. Watch.

Definitely a treat. Light, crisp, delicious. Salty or sweet. Sprinkle a little cinnamon on them and they taste like pumpkin pie. The trick: make them with butternut squash. Works better than pumpkin.

You can walk through the town of Half Moon Bay, wander in pumpkin patches and stroll along a big stretch of beach. All in a two-hour walk. Or you can do the four-hour version, burn 1,200 calories and enter the pumpkin pie-eating contest.

50 cents per serving for a deeply flavorful, sweet and savory dish. Totally satisfying. Your daily Vitamin A requirement and a lot of Vitamin C for 30 calories. Serve it with polenta or farro and make a meal out of it.

Roasted Pumpkin Salad with Cranberries and Quinoa. Waste not, want not. Use all of that pumpkin. Two big servings for $4. Mustard-lemon dressing adds brightness and spice to the mellow sweet pumpkin.

Sweet pumpkin with spicy sausage. A little bit of Romesco sauce for a huge range of deep flavors spreading across your tongue and making the pumpkin and pepperoni seem like old friends. Great on top of bubbling mozzarella. A great $2 pizza.

Stripped down. No equipment. No exercise balls, no balance boards, no weights. Not just Better and Cheaper. Better and Free. Strengthen your abdominal muscles. Your lower back. Press Play.

This is my favorite stairway. If more stairways looked more like this, I'll bet a lot more of us would take the stairs. Take a minute. Take a look. Press Play.

This time of year, it's hard to beat a sweet, crisp apple and a hunk of cheddar. Well, this Apple Cheddar Gratin beats it. If that sounds like something you shouldn't try to do at home by yourself, the sound's deceiving. Click. Tasting is believing.

Around the world in 80 blocks. 5.6 miles. Walk briskly between stops and burn 600 calories. While you sample great eats from dozens of countries and cultures. All in a half-day's Walk in Manhattan.

Put a little garlic aioli into a chicken breast and, suddenly, the kind of dry white meat is juicy and intensely flavorful. Aromatic. Takes just two minutes and five cents worth of my 5-minute mayo.

My candidate for best Fall vegetable dish. You'll love this even if you're not wild about cauliflower. Less than $2 for four servings of an unusually delicious dish that you'll make a hundred times if it you make it once.

This homemade ketchup is so much Better than ketchup it's hard to think of it as ketchup. A hamburger couldn't imagine this in its wildest dreams. 18 cents for a tablespoon of revelation.

Stripped down. No equipment. No exercise balls, no balance boards, no weights. Not just Better and Cheaper. Better and Free. Strengthen your arms, shoulders, hands and wrists. Press Play.

Take a minute. To see what's around the bend. C'mon, it's Sunday. It's a minute. Just Press Play. Really nice way to start the day. Maybe you'll take a walk, too. One with a beautiful ending.

Delicious. Luxurious. A party in your mouth. The perfect breakfast for a Slower Saturday or Sunday. Smells as great as it tastes. Turns you whole home into an aromatherapy clinic while it's in the oven. $2.75. Serves 8 - 12.

From the Crawford Notch trailhead to the peaks of Mount Pierce, Mount Jackson and Mount Webster. And this week the Fall foliage is at its peak up there. Get going.

A light, bright, satisfying meal with deep, intense flavor. Four dollars for two of you, plus leftovers. Tastes like Autumn. Earthy, sweet beets. Nutty farro, the high-protein ancient grain. Don't wait for the leaves to turn. Get your color now.

If you've been avoiding this dark, leafy green, here's a flavorful, fragrant, easy 10-minute vegetable course with huge amounts of Vitamins A, C and K. And a very small amount of calories.

$1.70 per serving for a luxuriously fresh, intensely aromatic and flavorful meal. Inhale and you know it's autumn. Taste to confirm.

Stripped down. No equipment. No exercise balls, no balance boards, no weights. Not just Better and Cheaper. Better and Free. Strengthen your hamstrings, abs and back. Press Play.

It's pretty great to find a walk where you're surrounded by these grape vines. Take a minute. Press Play. You'll see.

Sounds like the ultimate solution for the age-old problem of the stoned munchies. But, really, I was just thinking about what to do with the season's last batch of peaches, plums and nectarines. This made a perfect brunch.

Sounds like one tough Wild West kind of adventure. But when you hit the trail, you're thinking, hey, this might be the best smelling hike in America. Wildflowers under the aspens and between the spicy spruces and minty firs. Whole new fragrance blends every ten steps.

$2 for a batch of sauce that makes a week's worth of savory dishes, well, a lot more savory. 16 cents per tablespoon. That's enough to elevate a sandwich to greatness. Make the whole batch in less than 15 minutes.

Less than $1 per huge serving of the Fall harvest quickly transformed to a sweet and spicy salad. An intensely flavorful Way to lighten up a rich meal. Or to build a light, refreshing one.

A spinach-feta omelet on challah toast dressed with romesco sauce is completely delicious. A meal-in-a-sandwich for ten minutes in the kitchen and less than two dollars.

Stripped down. No equipment. No exercise balls, no balance boards, no weights. Not just Better and Cheaper. Better and Free. Look like Superman. Without the cape. Strengthen your lower back. Press Play.

The shimmer of light reflecting off water at a million different angles. Water splashing against rocks at a million different angles. All those different notes. All those different sparkles. I'm such a sucker for waterfalls.

Breakfast, brunch, lunch, dinner. This is totally delicious. $1.50 for one. And one's a complete meal. The toast is soft and fluffy. The cheese is rich and slightly salty. The pears are caramelized and sweet. Try to eat Slowly.