Originally Posted by Tom_PM

Yeah for sure you can. Midwest and others have good deals on gallons of extract. The advantage of pre-hopped kits regarding time is that you don't need to boil them. At the simplest, you open the can, dump it into your sanitized fermenting vessel, stir in some water and pitch your yeast.

Regular extract you need to boil and do your hop additions which is fine if you have an hour or so.