Learn how to dehydrate parsnips and carrots for a colorful, healthy snack that even your kids will love! And you’ll have a soup-ready vegetable that needs no prep! A carrot stick with a side of ranch dressing is a typical lunchtime side dish for lunches or after school snack. But what if you could do…
Are your dehydrated powders clumping? Don’t let your hard work go to waste! Learn five ways to keep dehydrated powders dry (and not clumping) and safe for food storage to enjoy year-round! You might find that your dehydrated powders are clumping in that jar. Or perhaps you’ve ground them and found the produce wasn’t as dry…
Dehydrate radish from leaves to root and don’t waste a bit! Do you hate the waste of cutting up radishes for a summer salad or veggie plate? Did you know that you can preserve the whole plant, and not throw away the leaves, stems, and roots? Radish bunches are so cute, aren’t they? The perfect…
Spring cleaning your pantry doesn’t have to be a huge ordeal. Follow these helpful hints and have your pantry spic and span and organized with just a few hours of work! Spring cleaning is either something you really look forward to or something you dread all winter long. But it doesn’t have to be a…
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Don’t buy bottled rosemary from the grocery store – learn how to dehydrate rosemary in these handy step by step directions for both a dehydrator and air drying. We have a ginormous rosemary bush in front of our house that started out as a wee little rosemary Christmas tree topiary about eight years ago. Now…
Knowing how to make and use vegetable powder takes your dehydrating to the next level! Here is a quick and easy way to make them even more versatile! Vegetable powder! Do you get so excited to dehydrate vegetables, then let them sit on a shelf, unsure of how to use them. Or maybe you realize…
Did you just buy a new dehydrator? Or are you surprising your spouse or mom with one? Here are some budget-friendly dehydrator tools to make your job much easier while saving you a ton of money! Now, before we start out, NONE of these tools is necessary to get you started dehydrating. Basic Dehydrating Tools…
Want to keep your raspberries longer? Dehydrate raspberries to have throughout the year. Follow these easy steps to dehydrate raspberries and fill your pantry! Raspberries, like blackberries, usually last just a few days, and then turn to moldy mush in the blink of an eye. They’re ripe…and then *poof* they’re not. This is the mold monster….
15+ ways to reuse canning jars or mason jars in your home – purposefully. Don’t relegate old canning jars to holiday crafts – use them in your home purposefully to store, ferment, create, decorate, use, and more! I’ve got more tips below… If you’re like me, you kind of cringe at using canning jars for…
Overloaded with sweet potatoes? Learn all about how you can preserve sweet potatoes to store them in your freezer and pantry – without using your vegetable bin. Thanksgiving brings inexpensive sweet potato prices around the country (gotta love those sales cycles!). But even if you come up with a great sale in the spring or…
How to dehydrate and preserve tarragon – whether you grow it in your backyard herb garden or buy it fresh from the produce section, tarragon is easy to preserve, and makes a tasty addition to your food storage! Tarragon is one of those herbs people don’t pay much attention to when starting an herb garden,…
Refreshing stale cereal in a dehydrator? That’s a thing? It never fails – you’ve invested in the giant state-sized box of cereal that was on sale this week, and someone didn’t bother to put a clothespin on the bag, and now it’s gone stale? What can you do with stale cereal? You can refresh cereal…
Learn how to make your own super green powder by dehydrating greens and adding a powerful nutrition ingredient to your long-term food storage! All it takes is one look at slimy, gross, and icky spinach oozing out of a can. Then you might be like me and hate greens forever. I finally learned to stomach…
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Hi, I’m Darcy! I’m a Native Texan who doesn’t like the Dallas Cowboys or Whataburger (I hope we can still be friends)! I grew up cooking from boxes and envelopes because we were a family who just didn’t like to cook! But when I married and had my own family – money was tight! Things…
