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Tinned food isn't cheaper. If you're on a tight budget you're better off buying the cheap veggies likes carrot that can be had for $1-2/kg year-round, and of course rice. Pumpkin can be readily had for around $2.50/kg for much of the year as well (as it is right now as it happens):
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If it did come in a tin it'd be very unlikely to be cheaper than (or even the same as) the fresh price.

Wow Australians are so out of touch!
Fresh produce is restricted by area, yet canned goods can come from anywhere in the world. Generally speaking for the continental US, it is not true that fresh is cheaper or often comparably priced. Pumpkins in fresh produce in stores are only sold if they are picture quality and that makes them expensive, but factory farms aren't picky and cut away all the good flesh of basically any pumpkin that isn't rotten and cans only the edible flesh and none of the skin and seeds. Here in South Carolina a pumpkin pie made from fresh pumpkin today in January would cost 3 - 4 times more than a canned version. It's not even close.

Well if that's the case then explain why the price of this tinned pumpkin is USD 3.29/lb or USD 7.26/KG. That's AUD 9.93/kg (or $20 for a single butternut pumpkin). That's about twice what you would expect to pay for fresh pumpkin here in Australia. You expect to pay about $2.00-5.00/kg, depending on the time of year etc. And it's five times as much as the minimum you'd expect to pay ($2/kg). And the cost of food in the USA is, by all accounts, cheaper than it is here - so if anything it should be cheaper than what we would pay. Pumpkins are native to America, so I have no idea what justifies the huge cost of that can.

I don't believe for a second that fresh pumpkin would cost the equivalent of close to $30-40 per kilo this time of year (out of season) in the USA.

that's butternut squash. When you buy canned pumpkin, this is what you get:

Pumpkins are a type of squash. They're domesticated from the same plant, thus all pumpkins are squashes but not all squashes are pumpkins. Like all cattle are mammals. But we tend to use the more specific term when talking about food - ie this is cow meat (or beef) this is lamb meat, etc, instead of just labelling it "mammal meat" which could mean anything. Yes Butternut is a specific pumpkin, so 'Butternut pumpkin' and 'Butternut squash' will mean the same thing, but to me the phrase "Butternut squash" sounds as silly as "Wagyu mammal". In any case, it doesn't cost any more than Kent or Jarrahdale, so whatever pumpkin you want are usually similarly priced.