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Try to investigate why you're paying more for homemade, because that seems odd. Are you doing per ingredient price breakdowns? Identify how you're losing out and troubleshoot that in your recipes.
When I make something more expensive than store bought, I try to make sure I know why I'm doing it. I don't trust a lot of food additives, my mindset is the price you pay with cheap food isn't in your wallet.
Maybe dried shredded coconut in your ice cream?
Mainly when I created this post I was thinking of cookies and peanut butter, but also presumably ice cream. Probably a McDonalds smoothie is also cheaper than a home made smoothie (if we're just looking at $/ml).
Granted cookies can be done cheaper, but when I made cookies on my own for the first time I was shocked by the butter content. Could buy a pack of low quality cookies for the cost of the butter in a 12 cookie recipe.
In most cases its just the economy of scale at work. I cant make a pizza for what Dominos can because they buy every last one of their ingredients by the tonne.
A simple margherita is cheap to make from scratch. the toppings are the real killer.