Making peas at home took me 5 minutes of simmering a bag of frozen organic peas, then 5 minutes of pureeing them in the food mill. You can see the shells left from making pea mash...
A 16 oz bag of organic peas: $1.79
Yield: 6 oz mashed peas (give or take depending on your desired consistency)
Homemade: $0.30 / oz
2.5 oz organic store-bought peas: $0.80
Store-bought: $0.32 / oz
So really, the only benefit to making homemade peas is saving on packaging. I'm hopeful that other vegetables will yield a greater savings. There was a lot of wasted food product from the peas (shells) because Kate's not really old enough to negotiate the texture of them.
Purely mashed peas would have been $0.11 /oz.
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