I bought a couple of cans of Progresso green pea soup with bacon to try. On sale for $1 a can. It is the type that doesn't require any additional water or milk. I poured it into a small pan and added a couple of squirts of sunflower oil to replace the fat taken out and a bit of salt and pepper and heated on stove top. The soup fixed this way nis delicious but the large handful of whole peas they include are old hard and tough peas that no creature would enjoy eating. So for the soup fixefd this way a hardy thumbs up but for the whole peas...definately would be better used as ammunition in a pea shooter! ;-) Worth trying just for the soup...if you like pea soup. Would be a pretty light meal though...add lots of crackers for bulk.
Paul