Dehydrating frozen vegetables or fruit

Dehydrating is one of the best ways of preserving food. Since space is always a limitation, and since refrigeration requires energy to constantly be operational, and since even the largest refrigerator/freezer has limits on space, dehydrating can avoid most of those issues. It produces delicious food with delightfully concentrated flavors too.

When gardening and food is coming in, you can be overwhelmed by the process of canning. Consider dehydrating some, as a remarkable amount of food like tomatoes can be dehydrated into a few canning jars and sealed, and make delicious tomato stock later.

Off-season, or when you notice a sale on frozen goods, then you can purchase those supplies and dehydrate them. This is a very common prepper project, and it ends up saving you money from less trips to the store, less items in the freezer, and avoiding purchasing fresh produce which is always the most expensive way to eat.



You don't have to spend a fortune on a dehydrator either. Note the small size of the one used in the video and the brief one day period used to dehydrate. If you read previous postings, in the hot summers you can dehydrate some outside, but having an electric one only makes sense for year round usage.

Because the food is lacking moisture, it makes mold difficult to affect your food.

According to the literature I've read, the vitamins and minerals are preserved for the most part by the process.

One of the main websites that discusses dehydrating food can be found here. She has numerous tips on the best recipes and ways to dehydrate.:
[link to www.dehydrate2store.com]

She also has a youtube channel:
[link to www.youtube.com]

Here's the first part of one of her video series. There are ten parts to the series.:

Some general tips can be found here:
[link to thesurvivalmom.com]

Why not give dehydrating food a try in 2013? It will end up saving you money, but will require making some small modifications in how you prepare meals. I think you'll benefit from it nutritionally as well as economically while also learning a valuable skill that will improve your food security in case of bad weather. All of these aspects are important as we enter most likely another year of drought in the USA.