The cheapest and priciest sweet rolls in town

It’s time-consuming but not all that difficult to bake a tray of sweet rolls. It’s not that expensive, either, especially if you have the ingredients on hand. A box of Pillsbury Hot Roll Mix, the easiest way to make “from scratch” sweet rolls and cinnamon rolls, retails for about $2 a box.

But nothing’s easier, insists a really lazy friend of mine, than baking the rolls inside one of those cardboard tubes of refrigerated pastry dough, like Pillsbury Orange Rolls.