Dehydrating Food Made Easy.

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Summer Dehydrating

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Summer is the optimum time for dehydrating food fresh from your garden or farmer’s market. Use these tips and ideas to have the greatest dehydrating success to put foods in your pantry for year-round use!

Make Dehydrating Easier!

Struggle with learning to dehydrate? I have 5 tips that will make it so much easier for you!

Yummy Recipes with Dehydrated Foods

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Canning jar full of a diy mushroom parmesan seasoning blend.

Mushroom Parmesan Seasoning Blend

A bowl of Eggroll in a Jar in front of jars of dehydrated vegetables.

Dehydrated Eggroll in a Jar Recipe

A jar of dried fruit and seeds.

Banana Split Trail Mix

A plate with chocolate covered oranges and pine cones.

Chocolate Covered Dried Orange Slices

Just getting started on your dehydrating journey?

Finally! The dehydrating book you’ve been waiting for! Learn the art of safely dehydrating food and create a journal to track your progress and results!

Food Preserving for the Pantry

Freeze Drying

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Freeze-dried raspberries in a mason jar with a jar of raspberry powder.

How to Freeze Dry Raspberries

Fresh cilantro in a jar on a white table.

How to Freeze Dry Cilantro

Jar of freeze dried ground beef, a foodsaver vacuum lid and #10 can of Augason Farms dehdyrated onion

Repackaging Freeze-Dried Food

Meet the author

Welcome! I’m Darcy!

I’ve spent twenty years learning to stretch our budget and stock our family’s pantry by dehydrating food. You can do it, too! It can feel daunting, but I know you can do it!

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Latest Preserving Projects

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Three glass jars filled with dehydrated watermelon, cantaloupe and honeydew slices placed on a wooden surface. A whole watermelon is positioned behind the jars.

Making Melons Shelf-Stable by Dehydrating!

A jar of dried honeydew melon with scatter pieces on a wooden cutting board and a slice of fresh in the background.

How to Dehydrate Honeydew Melon

Dried cantaloupe pieces scattered on a wooden surface, with a glass jar filled with more dried cantaloupe pieces, and fresh cantaloupe slices in the background.

How to Dehydrate Cantaloupe

A wood cutting board with a wedge of Parmesan cheese, two jars of dehydrated Parmesan, and a bag of shredded Parmesan cheese.

How to Dehydrate Fresh Parmesan Cheese