canned pumpkin price out of sight

patty12 · #1 11/13/12, 06:37 PM

I was in our local super market yesterday and saw pumpkin in the small sized can for 2.59 . I thought you must be joking. I picked up two pumpkins at a fruit place that sells apples and had a pile left from halloween for a dollar each. I will get enough to make my pies for thankgiving plus have enough to give all my family for their pies.
incase you don't know you put your pumpkin on a cookie sheet and cook it till the peeling starts to slip then peel and cube your pumpkin cook with water until done, mash and you have pumpkin pie filling. the companys cook some sweet potatoes in their pumpkin so I plan to peel a sweet potato or two to cook with the pumpkin.

katydidagain · #2 11/13/12, 06:39 PM

For some reason canned pumpkin and hamburger have been really pricey in the past few years. Neither are considered luxury goods yet they cost a lot. People sub winter squash and sweet potatoes for pumpkin and it works. Not sure what I can sub for hamburger...

patty12 · #3 11/13/12, 07:19 PM

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Originally Posted by katydidagain

For some reason canned pumpkin and hamburger have been really pricey in the past few years. Neither are considered luxury goods yet they cost a lot. People sub winter squash and sweet potatoes for pumpkin and it works. Not sure what I can sub for hamburger...

At risk of getting in trouble I will use the bible to tell you why, it was explained to me one time that the 4 horseman in the bible.. Revelation 6:5-6 " When He opened the third seal, I heard the third living creature say, "Come and see." So I looked, and behold, a black horse, and he who sat on it had a pair of scales in his hand. 6 And I heard a voice in the midst of the four living creatures saying, "A quart of wheat for a denarius, and three quarts of barley for a denarius; and do not harm the oil and the wine."I was told the wheat and the barley resepented poor peoples food and the wine and oil was for the rich thus the poor would be hurt more by the the horse carring hunger. Hambugger and vegetables are poor mans food so the prices will climb and the poor will suffer and the rich will do well during that time.
if the bible is not to your liking I am sorry I mentioned it. I don't wish to offend.

katydidagain · #4 11/13/12, 07:26 PM

You didn't offend. Perhaps that is why hamburger is so darned expensive now. (I can live without canned pumpkin--I hate those pies.)

countrysunshine · #5 11/13/12, 10:06 PM

It has gone up this time of year the past few years. I bought it in July or August when my pumpkins had failed at $0.79/can. I bought a case. I still had a couple of bags from last year frozen but knew it would be gone soon.

Wendy · #6 11/13/12, 11:52 PM

Pumpkin at Kroger last week was $1.19 for a small can.

Cheryl in SD · #7 11/14/12, 12:05 AM

It is 1.50 a can this week, last week I got it for .99 on sale.

Paquebot · #8 11/14/12, 12:20 AM

Buy a big butternut squash and a tin of pumpkin pie mix and make enough for 2 or 3 pies.

Martin

oregon woodsmok · #9 11/14/12, 02:03 AM

I always cook fresh pumpkin, so have no idea what the canned sells for.

There was a crop failure with the pumpkins (Last year? Year before?) that drove the price up due to short supply. But you know how it is. Once they see they can get you to pay the higher price, they don't have much motive to drop the price back down.

Also there is the general inflation that the government insists isn't happening. The price of everything keeps going up.

oregon woodsmok · #10 11/14/12, 02:10 AM

I had the grinder going this morning. 25 pounds of beef round and 25 pounds of pork sirloins ground into burger. The beef was $2.66 a pound and the pork was $1.44 a pound.

Good quality beef round would cost me a lot more to buy already ground into hamburger. The ground beef I can buy for $2.60 a pound is foul stuff. In my family, we call that road kill burger. So it is well worth the time and effort to buy a whole round and grind it myself.

I can't even remember the last time I saw ground pork in the market and when they used to sell it, it was full of fat. The sirloins I grind are lean enough that I have to add fat to the pan to cook it. Again, so very worth the time and effort to grind my own.

Judy in IN · #11 11/14/12, 03:17 AM

It might be expensive this year because of the DROUGHT that affected most of the country.

We grew Sugar Pie pumpkins in the garden this year. They were so much better than canned! We have already consumed them. Then a friend told me about a nearby corn maze that gives away pumpkins at the close of their season. We've been feeding those to the sheep. They love them. The corn maze also planted about an acre of culinary pumpkins. I've been steaming and freezing them for the past 4 days. I ended up with around 45 quarts of wonderful pumpkin for the cost of freezer bags and my time.

Check with places that grow pumpkins. At this time of year, they just want to get them off the field.

SageLady · #12 11/14/12, 03:50 AM

Picked up several cans of pumpkin at Target about 3 weeks ago. They were just a little over a dollar a can.

beaglebiz · #13 11/14/12, 05:39 AM

.99 a can every day at Aldi
I planted neck pumpkins this year and had a bumper crop

shannsmom · #14 11/14/12, 06:08 AM

1.39 this week at Walgreens (we don't have Kroger or Aldi's, darn it!).

Maggie · #15 11/14/12, 07:32 AM

I was shocked at the price of canned pumpkin also. The Libby's brand (small can) was $2.49 a can last week. The Seville brand (MADE IN CHINA!) was 0.79 cents a can. China grown pumpkin-not for me! Thankfully I have 2 cans of organic pumpkin I bought at the scratch & dent store left. I paid 0.99 cents each for them

Oh, & fresh pumpkins: anytime after halloween around here the fresh pumpkins are sold as DEER FEED. The hunters buy most of them up for deer season.

doozie · #16 11/14/12, 07:38 AM

Google Bean Pie, or Navy Bean Pie. I have not tried it, but since I like to try different recipes I will give it a go. Some reviews on recipes claim no one will know the difference. (due to the spices I guess).

scooter · #17 11/14/12, 07:52 AM

In our area at Wal-Mart, it was 1.48. I've used squash before for pumpkin pie with great results.

Marsha · #18 11/14/12, 08:03 AM

We buy pumpkins for fall decorations, and we try to grow some of our own. On Monday the two younger ones, and I did up the pumpkins for pie, pumpkin doughnuts, or pumpkin log.

We got enough to equal 12 of the smaller cans out of 1 large pumpkin, 1 med. one, and 1small one. I still have some frozen from last year, so, we will have plenty of pumpkin hopefully.

Our Aldi store sells a brand for only 99 cents for a small can.

Marsha

vicki in NW OH · #19 11/14/12, 08:17 AM

Our Aldi is 99 cents a can also. I grow Winter Luxury pumpkins, the best cooking and baking pumpkin ever.

**Cabin Fever** · #20 11/14/12, 09:17 AM

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Originally Posted by Maggie

I was shocked at the price of canned pumpkin also. The Libby's brand (small can) was $2.49 a can last week. The Seville brand (MADE IN CHINA!) was 0.79 cents a can. China grown pumpkin-not for me! Thankfully I have 2 cans of organic pumpkin I bought at the scratch & dent store left. I paid 0.99 cents each for them

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This!

I was about to buy some cheap canned pumpkin (~$1/can) last week and was shocked to see that it was made in China!

I searched through the various brands until I found one made in the USA.

For those of you who bought cheap canned pumpkin, I'm willing to bet you bought Chinese-canned pumpkin! Check it out and report back.