Why is it that Beckeys Kountry Kitchen pies cost more than the pies I can buy at the grocery store?  Answer: To start with the fruit quality and quanity are much different between the pies. Most pies made in factories use what they call fruit slurry to make their pies, what fruit slurry is is it's much like the pie filling you buy in a can at the store, only a little worst quality less fruit and more sugar. The fruit in fruit slurry has already been cooked once to make the slurry, by the time you bake it again into the pie the fruit tends to break down to a point that the texture of the fruit in the pie is more like baby food than anything else. In most pie recipes the recipes call for up to 4 cups of fruit to make the filling in Beckeys pies we use 6 cups of fruit to make our pies thats 50% more fruit, and we use real fresh fruit not slurry.
    Last of all each and every pie we make we hand roll out the crust one at a time just like families have been doing for many generations, doing our crust like that makes for a more flakey lighter crust. Factory made crust have a definitely different texture because to mass produce the crust the recipe for making the dough for the crust is a bit different so that it can be mass produced without gumming up the machinery.

   So to make a long story short Beckeys pies have more fruit and hand made crusts making our pies tastier, and bigger.