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
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Dehydrating fruits and vegetables are great because they last longer than canned goods and don’t require refrigeration. With a little bit of planning ahead of time, you’ll be able to enjoy healthy snacks that will keep for months without spoiling! Plus there’s no added sugar or preservatives like there would be in processed snacks from the store. Who doesn’t want that?