Wasted a Dollar

The pumpkin only cost a dollar but by the time I toasted the seeds, baked the pumpkin, and made soup, it was pretty expensive with time and other ingredients. I ended up throwing almost all of it away. When I was a kid my mom kept trying to get me to eat by telling me about the starving children in China who would be glad to have it. I guess starving people would like that pumpkin stuff but I wonder who wrote the reviews.