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    Dehydrating, Canning and Food Storage Tips

    Make food storage and preservation easy with these dehydrating, canning, and food storage recipes and tips to save you time, money, and space. Welcome to The Purposeful Pantry!

    Dehydrating Recipes for Spring

    Use these dehydrating recipes and processes for your spring garden harvests and other projects you want to tackle to put dehydrated foods in your pantry!

    • A bundle of chives, parsley, rosemary and other herbs
      7 Ways to Dry Herbs
    • Dehydrated carrots
      How to Dehydrate Carrots (+Video)
    • Fresh strawberries, strawberry powder and dried strawberry slices on wooden cutting surfaces
      How to Dehydrate Strawberries & Strawberry Powder
    • Fresh green onions with dehydrated scallions in jars on wooden surface
      How to Dehydrate Scallions or Green Onions
    • Dehydrated lettuce and fresh lettuce on wooden background preparing to dry
      How to Dehydrate Lettuce
    • Marshmallow Peeps in rainbow order around a Nesco dehydrator tray
      How to Dehydrate Peeps Marshmallows
    • A bundle of rainbow radishes in varying shades of red, pink and white
      How to Dehydrate Radishes, Greens, and Root
    • Asparagus spears bundled by a blue rubberband - for dehydrating
      How to Dehydrate Asparagus Spears

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    The most popular recipes for learning to dehydrate food for long-term storage in your pantry.

    • Fruits and vegetables in a suitcase for a post on how to dehydrate produce
      200 Best Dehydrating Recipes for Fruits and Vegetables
    • 3 meal in a jar mixes
      Best Meals in a Jar Recipes
    • piles of dehydrated frozen vegetables in a bucket
      Dehydrate Frozen Vegetables
    • A bundle of chives, parsley, rosemary and other herbs
      7 Ways to Dry Herbs
    • Excalibur dehydrator tray of dehydrated peppermint marshmallows and jar of marshmallow powder
      How to Dehydrate Marshmallows & Make Marshmallow Powder
    • Fresh oranges with sliced dried oranges across the surface
      How to Dehydrate Oranges
    • Jar of dried frozen vegetables next to a jar of dried vegetable powder on wooden background
      How to Make and Use Vegetable Powder
    • Zucchini on grass
      8 Ways to Dehydrate Zucchini

    How to Stock Your Pantry

    The beginning of the year always brings a desire to clean, purge, organize and stock our pantries. Use these tips and ideas that focus on dehydrated food storage for inspiration on stocking your pantry for 2023.

    • Images of the 15 essential dehydrated foods such as strawberries, herbs, greens, peppers, onions, and more.
      15 Essential Dehydrated Foods Every Pantry Needs
    • Pantry list on a table with scattered pantry staples, a pen, and a measuring spoon of peppercorns
      Basic Pantry Staples Checklist
    • piles of dehydrated frozen vegetables in a bucket
      Dehydrate Frozen Vegetables
    • Hot cocoa in a cup with a bulk hot cocoa mix in a mason jar
      DIY Hot Cocoa Mix (Bulk Recipe)
    • Book Cover of the 30 Day Pantry Challenge
      30 Day Pantry Challenge Starts Today!
    • Bacon slices on a wooden surface with a sprig of an herb tucked inside.
      How to Store Bacon in Your Pantry & Freezer
    • Organized Pantry essentials for long term food storage in OXO Pop containers
      10 Simple Steps to an Organized Pantry
    • Dehydrated frozen vegetabes, dehydrated ginger, dehydrated peppers, dehydrated green onions
      10 Easy Dehydrating Projects for Beginners

    Newest Dehydrating Tips and Recipes

    Learn how to dehydrate, store your favorite fruits and vegetables, and build your food storage and long-term pantry.

    • Meals in a jar of instant beef and vegetable soup; one with rice, one with pasta, one with couscous.
      Instant Beef & Vegetable Soup in a Jar
    • a jar of dehydrated hash browns on a dehydrator tray of dried shredded potatoes
      Dehydrate Frozen Hash Browns
    • Hashbrown breakfast casserole on blue plate on a bed of dehydrated hash browns.
      Hash Brown Breakfast Casserole with Dehydrated Hashbrowns
    • Easy apple pie fruit leather in sheets, rolls, and stored in a Weck jar.
      Easy Cinnamon Applesauce Fruit Leather
    • dehydrating temperature chart
      Best Temperature to Dehydrate Fruits and Vegetables
    • Cosori 6 tray food dehydrator
      Cosori Food Dehydrator Reviews
    • Olive powder dip in a mason jar on a plate with crackers and dehydrated olives
      Olive Powder Dip
    • Can of black olives and sliced olives on dehydrator rack for drying
      How to Dehydrate Olives

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    Preserving Food for the Pantry

    From canning to dehydrating to freezing and more, learn how to preserve your food in multitudes of ways to make them shelf-stable or freezer-safe for use all year long!

    • Green zucchini whole and sliced as a means of preserving zucchini
      25 Ways to Preserve Zucchini
    • White eggs in a paper carton on a blue wooden surface
      9 Ways to Preserve Eggs (Safely)
    • radish bunch on a wooden background
      4 Ways to Preserve Radishes
    • Jar of Pressure Canned Chicken
      Canning Chicken
    • Cherries in a basket with a jar of cherry preserves with a red polka dot fabric cover
      Ways to Preserve Cherries
    • Halved avocado with seed on a yellow plate
      How to Preserve Avocado

    See more canning recipes →

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    Food Storage

    Learn food storage tips, recipes, and ideas to make stocking your pantry easier on the budget, your time, and your menus. Long and short-term food storage solutions help you create a deeper pantry to feed your family.

    • DIY Brown Sugar Ingredients: Sugar plus molasses and finished brown sugar
      Easy Homemade Brown Sugar
    • Sweet potatoes on a wooden surface
      How to Preserve Sweet Potatoes
    • A jar of tomato powder made from tomato paste on a wooden background
      25+ Ways to Use Tomato Powder
    • Kitchen timer on a wooden table
      10 Minute Prep Meals from Your Pantry

    See more food storage posts →

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