Take advantage of sales or in-season fruits, vegetables, and meats to create delicious stores of healthy, inexpensive foods.
Make your own dehydrated foods
Basics- Learn the basics of how to start preserving your favorite fruits, veggies, and meats
- Food Drying Basics
- Equipment and Methods for Drying
- Dried Food Recipes
- Storing and Using Dried Foods
- How to Use Dried Food in Recipes
- Make Your Own Food Dehydrator
Fruits
- Dehydrating Cranberries
- Dehydrating Fruits Table: Excellent informative source showing the drying times of all your favorite fruits
- Dehydrating Tomatoes
- Drying Fruit Leathers– make your own fruit roll ups using your favorite fruits
- How to Dry Strawberries
- How to make Fruit Powders
Herbs
Dry your own herbs for use in your favorite recipes and crafts
Meats
- Drying Meats – make your own Jerky
- Drying Poultry – Make Turkey Jerky, Chicken Jerky, Duck Jerky etc
Vegetables
- Dehydrating Vegetable Table: Drying times needed for all your favorite vegetables, as well as how to prepare them
- Dry your own Chili Peppers
- Dehydrating Tomatoes
Recipes
- Apple Pie
- Cherry Pie– Create a family favorite using dried cherries
- Chocolate Cherry Pie– Frozen treat made from Dried Cherries
- Creamed Corn– classic creamed corn recipe using dried corn kernels
- Creamy Mushroom Soup Mix
- Dehydrated Soup Mix
- Dried Apple Cakes
- Dried Tomato Basil Pesto
- Fresh Fennel With Sun-Dried Tomatoes
- Drying Fruit Leathers– make your own fruit “roll” treats for an inexpensive, healthy alternative
- Fruit Powders
- Green Bean Casserole -dehydrated
- Harvest Cake
- Munchie Bites– coconut, apples, peanut butter & vanilla
- Orange Julius Fruit Roll/ Fruit Leather
- Peach Pie
- Sauteed Onions– perfect sauteed onions from dried onions
- Sundried Tomatoes
- Sun-dried Tomato Dip
- Vegetable Soup
Jerky Marinade Recipes:
Create inexpensive homemade jerky with beef, venison, game meats, chicken, turkey, and more
- Basic Jerky Marinade
- Chinese Beef Jerky
- Cracked Black Pepper Jerky
- Deer Jerky
- Hot and Sweet Venison Jerky
- Smokin’ Hot Jerky
- Sweet Onion Jerky Recipe
- Sweet & Sour Jerky
- Teriyaki Jerky
- Turkey Jerky
While you can use your oven or choose from other drying methods, we highly recommend Nesco Food Dehydrators
.