How can frozen peas be so cheap?

June 18, 2009 at 12:21 am | In Gardening, Sewing | 2 Comments

We’ve got lots of very fat peapods now (though I can see the whole thing is on its way out and we’ll probably be done with peas in a week.)  It’s a delight to open them up and see big fat beautiful peas nestled inside.  Tonight I picked a big handful for myself and shelled them, cooked them, gobbled them up.  This was how many peas I had.  How on earth can frozen peas be so inexpensive? Seriously, 89 cents? $1.09? For a bag that is ten times as much as I painstakingly shelled here.  There must be some wonderful machine that quickly and efficiently shells them because by hand it hardly seems practical. They were delicious, by the way.

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Tabitha had her first day wearing the seersucker dress (which I guess is a top now, since she is wearing it with pants.)  It looked really nice on her and she was able to play very well in it.

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  1. Oooh, your peas look delicious! But wouldn’t it be nice sometimes to have some heavy farm machinery to take the labor out of planting, harvesting and prepping crops? If you can ever get your hands on whatever pea-shelling machines they have, I want whatever big machines they use to dig up potatoes.

    Comment by Schnookie — June 18, 2009 #

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  2. I have wondered that about peas, too! It takes forever to shell them! Totally worth it, of course, but I can’t imagine having to do it enough to serve a bunch of people.

    Tabitha looks adorable in her top! I love it.

    Comment by Anne — June 18, 2009 #

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