Hey, just wondering if you could recommend some good companies from which to buy food for long term storage, dehydrated food, etc. And if you have any particular foods within that brand that you'd like to recommend, please lay it on me. All help greatly appreciated. Thanks.
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Im just starting to prep we've always had a few months supply of food on hand I'm starting to dehydrate fruit in my air fryer I'm going to move on to other things soon. We bought one with a dehydreate option you can also use your oven there's a lot of videos out there on how to.
Thanks. Good idea. How do you store the dehydrated fruit? I remember seeing a video a while back of an older couple and she was making soup from some can of powder she had. She said it was actually delicious. Wish I could find it again.
So far just ziplock bags but it seems vacuum sealers aren't as expensive as I remember them lol
I store my dehydrated fruit in canning jars. Some of the vacuum sealers had siecial lids you can buy.
Do you dehydrate it yourself? If so, can you recommend a good dehydrator? There's a vast price difference in the ones I've seen. Thanks.
Yes I do. Mine is an old Weston. Works fine and I have extra trays but I wouldn’t chose it again. I mostly do apples, strawberries, a few veggies for soup and fruit leather. I’m not crazy of having to constantly swap around the trays because the ones on the bottom get get almost cooked and the ones on the top are still just starting. I don’t have any real advice except that If you can afford it would actually investigate freeze dryers. Not that I don’t like dehydrated food but I hear freeze drying is better. I also have I smoker that I use for smoking meats which if you do that before dehydration you can get some great jerky like solutions. Most of my food preservation is done thru canning. It’s not hard to learn and except for being labor intensive is great. Food tastes better. If you’re bugging out I guess it could be awkward but if replacing store bought you couldn’t ask for better. Buy a ball blue book and see just how easy it is. Soups, meat, meals or fruits and veggies. Canning can be an investment but overall cheaper and better than anything store bought. I’d be glad to discuss further if you have an inclination that direction. I do 100s of quarts yearly.