My fav drink for fall(and winter) would be hot chocolate made with milk instead of water. With pumpkin spice marshmallows!(I just have plain cocoa with marshmallows for winter) I just found these marshmallows in the store this year. I do use water when where out of milk.
my fav 2 pies are pumpkin and pecan. Fav candle scents for fall-pumpkin spice and apple pie fav fall wax scent-pumpkin spice My fav oil that I've been using in my oil diffuser for fall-apple cinnamon
Currently trying out a cinnamon candle. Some of my fav candle brands at the moment are GooseCreek(I bought them on sale),Glade and Koze place. Still have colonel candles and other brands laying around to try out.
Happy holidays everyone!
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Hot cocoa is one of my favorite cold weather drinks! Especially with a little nutmeg and cinnamon in it, mmm, delicious. I always make it with water (can't drink milk, unfortunately), and I only have marshmallows when I can find the vegan Dandies on sale (while it's partly because I'm vegetarian, it's mostly because I hate the texture of normal marshmallows, but I like the vegan ones well enough). I'm also always up for a good cinnamon tea. Plain cinnamon, apple cinnamon, orange cinnamon; if it's cinnamon, I love it. Oh, and warm apple cider! I prefer local stuff, and fall is the best season to get my hands on local cider, it can be pretty hard to find any other time.
I used to LOVE having pecan pie at the family get together, but pretty sure it'd make me sick to eat it now. So I'll have to stick with the runners-up; sweet potato pie and cherry pie! I know cherry is usually more of a summer flavor, but I think it's good for every season.
I think my favorite thing to bake is apple crumble. It's pretty easy, the only real work is slicing the apples (and I usually talk my beau into doing that for me). Tossing the slices in sugar and cinnamon and making the crumb topping takes all of five minutes, maybe. Plus it always leaves my apartment smelling heavenly. Haven't made it in a couple years, haven't gotten a surprise gift of spare apples since then.
I'm really basic when it comes to scents. Just give me a good cinnamon or sugar cookie and I'll be set for the season. My absolute reigning favorite is pine cones soaked in a cinnamon infusion. My beau's mum made cinnamon pine cones one year, I never wanted to leave their living room, it smelled so good.
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I like tea.. I tried hibiscus tea once it dropped my blood pressure.. so that's one tea I cant drink. I would love to try fruit teas and all kinds of teas but I've never seen a sampler pack in my stores.
We got a pumpkin pie in the freezer for Thanksgiving. couldn't afford 2 pies so it was pumpkin VS pecan.. Love both but one was slightly cheaper (a few dollars)
I've not baked in awhile.. with my moms choking issues.. and my liver issues its hard to fix anything for us both.. Ive been wanting to make a peach cobbler.. Using what I have cause the grocery budget is so tight.. I believe I have canned peaches and a I think a box of yellow cake mix.. I could do a peach cobbler dump cake in the toaster oven..(our actual oven went out years ago.. can't afford to fix it)
I think my cats would swat pine cones like toys.. So far my cinnamon candle smells fine.. kinda bland by itself though.. could be the brand..
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Australian here, we don't really do pumpkin stuff for autumn (it's what we call fall here), although I love my hot chocolate especially with cinnamon and marshmallows. For us, autumn is more of transition from summer to winter as our summers here can be pretty long, depending on where you're located in Australia.
So, during autumn, I'd be easing back into hot chocolate, tea, and getting ready to become cosy.
so what's fall cozy mean to you? To me its a blanket on the couch with a book. Or a warm scented candle(such as pumpkin pie or cranberry crumble cake) burning and me doing a puzzle.
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The last time I went to a Thanksgiving dinner was in 2019( was invited to an aunt's house and stayed over at their house for thanksgiving and then took the train back( they live two hours away).
Within my own immediate family, we haven't really had a Thanksgiving since I was in my 20s and in college because of multiple factors. a) my brother and I no longer live with our parents and b) I stopped eating meat in my early 20s( I've been vegetarian or pescetarian( only eat fish and other seafood but not lamb, pork, beef, etc.. so land meats, XD) since I was 23 when I stopped. Note that I stopped due to not liking meat when I was a kid and just not wanting to continue eating meat as a an adult who could decide on my own diet.
Anyway, fall and winter are my favorite seasons because I don't like heat so random fall things I like:
a) pumpkin spice( I usually get pumpkin spice chai/lattes at Starbucks once it hits fall). b) sweater weather c) my cat deciding now that it's colder, using me as a blanket.
I live in California so we don't really get change of seasons, but I used to live in New York for three years for grad school, between 2015-2018, and I used to love in the fall when the leaves changed color because it just looked so pretty visually.
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Curling up in lounge with a good book or a movie on Netflix/or streaming service. Going to warm pubs with friends for drinks and chats - maybe with a warm meal. Going camping too - it's not too hot; not too cold for that.
I like pumpkin cream cold brews, but I make them at home because I’m boycotting Starbucks. I like French hot chocolate with real chocolate melted in it, but it’s so decadent so I have it rarely. Trader Joe’s has a really tasty sipping chocolate.
I like pumpkin pie, and usually make one from scratch at least once a year. We go to Friendsgivings and Thanksgiving, so we’ve made apple and pecan and others in the past too.
The best fall baked good I made this season was pumpkin spice dark chocolate chip snickerdoodles.
I’ve been burning my unscented taper candles more than my scented jar candles lately. I prefer candles made from beeswax or soy.

Apple over pumpkin, hands down. Cinnamon anything. Those little fragranced brooms, I bought one and hung it in my car this year. Spooky ANYTHING! My mom and I have been enjoying buying framed pictures from thrifts stores and adding ghosts in to them. :)
There is something about baked apples I just don't like.. (just a personal preference I guess..) I like the smell of apple pie (that's why I have a apple pie scented candle) just not the taste. I've never tried those brooms.. (not sure I've seen them in my local stores)
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The leaves for sure...I love checking out all the awesome ones that fall in my yard/'hood. I live in New England. It's awesome. ALSO. It's not toooo cold yet but its too cold for bugs! Heck yes.
I've seen people make art out of fall/autumn leaves.. birds,butterflies,ect.. Kinda neat to see what people can do with leaves..
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