YAY, and welcome to The Purposeful Pantry! I’m so glad you’ve decided to receive my emails and start your own food-dehydrating journey! As promised, here is your Dehydrating Temperature Chart to get started! You can simple right click the image and save it to your device, but I’m also sending a copy to your email…
Learn to dehydrate onions in a safe way that helps you create awesome minced onions for cooking, and allows you to make your own DIY onion powder that is so much better than storebought! So before we get started, the first question is always this: Do Onions Smell Up the House? Yes, yes they do….
Keeping raspberries shelf-stable is easy with freeze-drying, and they taste so wonderful! This quick and easy process will keep raspberries shelf-stable for the year and save lots of freezer space. How to Freeze-Dry Raspberries at Home Equipment Freeze Dryer – I use a Harvest Right Freeze Dryer. Instructions: Storage: Freeze-dried fruits are best stored in…
Use these holiday gift ideas made with dehydrated food to give a special gift for your loved one this year! Put your food dehydrator to use to create lovely gifts and edible treats for everyone! Using your food dehydrator can be more than just creating fruit leathers and jerky. You can create a bounty of…
Give the perfect gift for those who love dehydrating their food to stock their pantries and save their garden produce. Use this gift guide to pick the perfect present for your favorite dehydrating enthusiast! What do you get the person who loves to dehydrate their garden produce? There are so many great ideas for inexpensive…
Learn how to dehydrate kiwi to create some delishly sweet and sour chips that are great for healthy snacks that your kids will love for their lunches. And you’ll secretly love them, too! Dried kiwi is like nature’s sweet and sour candy. It makes can be sweet with a sour afternote. Or, depending on the…
Dehydrate lemons and create a bounty of sunshine all year long. They are perfect for snacking, baking, cooking, and for decor! It’s so easy to just slice and dry this citrus! While citrus fruit season is in the late winter and early spring in North America, good lemon varieties are available all year round. You…
Learn to dehydrate oranges and make them shelf-stable all year long. These bundles of sunshine are perfect for snacking, baking, cooking, and decorating! Then think about dipping it in chocolate! So crazy good! While the citrus season is in the late winter and early spring in North America, good orange varieties are available all year…
Learn to dehydrate limes to store in your pantry all year. They are great for adding to water and teas, flavor tea blends, making lime powder to add to baked goods, and so much more! While citrus season is in the late winter and early spring in North America, good lime varieties are available all…
Learn to dehydrate citrus to step up your culinary game, stock your pantry with flavor, and create beautiful food art for your family! While the citrus season is in the late winter and early spring in North America, good citrus varieties are available all year around. You can take advantage of a great harvest season…
Make Strawberry Snow Ice Cream from dehydrated strawberry powder for a super special treat on snow days! This is a fun project to do if you know there’s snow coming and want to do something special with your kids! Dehydrated fruit powders are a wonderful way to kick up the flavor in yogurt, oatmeal, baked…
Blueberry Rice Krispies Treats are an excellent way to learn to use your dehydrated fruit powders and take the typical rice cereal marshmallow treat up a notch! Use any fruit flavor to achieve your preference! I’ve been making Rice Krispies Treats since I was a kid with my mom as a special treat. They hold…
Have you run out of ideas for your dehydrator? Are you ready to tackle something more than the basics? Here are 12 unique dehydrating projects you may not have thought of doing before. And don’t worry, they are easy, too! Which of these two people are you? You have a dehydrator, but have you done…
Learn how to make your own DIY Liquid Dehydrator Tray for broths, liquids, fruit leathers and even drying powders! Are you ever scared fo doing fruit leathers, stocks or broths, or even re-drying powders because you think they’ll just leak off the edge of your dehydrator trays? Or have you ever found that your dehydrated…
Get even more ways to add nutrition to your Saturday morning pancakes! They are a carb-loading dream…but feel guilty that they aren’t adding any real nutrition to your week? Here are ten great tips to help you add extra nutrition to your pancakes! Who doesn’t love pancakes? They are a staple of the modern American…
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…
