Hello, Reader Welcome Day 4 of the 12 Days of Dehydrating for Christmas We talked about dehydrated marshmallows the other day. So let's piggy back off that with a rich and tasty hot cocoa mix that your family and friends will love!! And while this isn't an actual dehydrating project....it's a perfect partner to dehydrated marshmallows, so I wanted to include it in the list. Day 4: Bulk Hot Cocoa Mix This bulk hot cocoa mix is so versatile and makes a great gift in small single servings or in...
5 months ago • 1 min read
Hi, Reader Welcome to Day 2 of the 12 Days of Christmas! One of the nicest things you can give many folks this year is security in their pantry. Meals in a jar are meals that are perfect for Elderly folks who have a hard time standing or sitting to prepare food Families with new babies or other issues that need to spend less time in the kitchen Hikers/campers/backpackers who love easy meals on trips Folks who like to have emergency meals on the shelf (or perhaps you want to encourage them to...
5 months ago • 2 min read
Hi, Reader It's Day 3 of the 12 Days of Christmas! Marshmallows are a fun treat to put into the dehydrator. They are great for adding to hot chocolate mixes, using as a fun treat in rice cereal treats, in trail mixes with graham crackers and chocolate kisses, etc. While they are really fun, there's a way to take dehydrated marshmallows a step further. Day 3: Marshmallow Pops Marshmallow pops use dehydrated marshmallows to create fun treats. They can be given in bouquets for housewarming gifts...
5 months ago • 1 min read
Hi, Reader Welcome to the 12 Days of Dehydrating for Christmas or any other gift-giving situation you may have! For the next twelve days (including today), I'll be giving you a quick tip or two a day on gift-giving ideas from your dehydrated food or ideas that you can quickly prepare in time for the holidays. Day 1: Citrus Wheels Citrus wheels are made from thin slices of any citrus you'd love to use such as lemons, limes, oranges, grapefruit, satsumas, etc. Learn how to dry oranges Ideas for...
5 months ago • 1 min read
Hi, Reader! I'm sure you've been inundated with Black Friday newsletters in the last few days. And yes, I'll link to some of my tools and deals to be had. Why is this different? I get that money feels very tight right now. In an uncertain world, it's hard to know where to invest to make life easier, or to help you feel better prepared to take on the next weeks, months and years. But one of the most brilliant things I ever did almost 20 years ago was to purchase a dehydrator. Little did I know...
5 months ago • 3 min read
Hi, Reader! If you are celebrating Thanksgiving this week, I have a few great ideas for you to stock up your pantry while you're doing it - killing two 'birds' with one stone, so to speak! You know that you're already going to be doing a lot of prep work, so once you have those tools out, the cutting boards, the food processors, and maybe some extra help, be prepared to do just a little more so that you can begin to fill your pantry! Here are some ways you can prep for Thanksgiving AND stock...
5 months ago • 1 min read
Hi, Reader! If you've been with me long enough, you know that I have a video of the five things I'll never dry again. Bananas were on the list. It's not that I can't figure it out. In fact, this week, I'm sharing 5 secrets to getting the perfect crunchy banana chips every time! The big reason is ... we just don't like them anymore. My husband and I realized that after having been sick with C-vid a few times in the past four years, bananas just don't taste right to us any longer. Has that...
about 1 year ago • 1 min read
CTHi, Reader! If you've been doing a Pantry Challenge for the month of January, you might have run into a bunch of cans of food you didn't know you had stocked. Canned olives seem to be one of those that we collect in hopes of using it one day, and then letting it languish. But what if I told you that you could dehydrate olives to use for snacking...and then to make this incredibly easy olive powder dip that can be used for dipping your favorite savory crunchy treat into? This will help...
about 2 years ago • 1 min read
Hello, Reader! Have you ever wondered what temperature to dehydrate something at, and had to go digging for a book or your phone to look it up? Perhaps your dehydrating manual didn't even list the appropriate temperatures for things. Or, in some cases, the manual was written by people who don't really dehydrate and don't realize that the suggested temps are to high! Well, YOU are the reason I created this Dehydrating Magnet - to let you have the one tool to keep right at your dehydrator - or...
almost 3 years ago • 2 min read