Love pineapple? Try dehydrating pineapple it to give a whole new way of enjoying the deliciously sweet fruit and make it shelf-stable! You can use fresh or canned pineapple and have this sweet treat for months to come! Pineapples are one of my favorite fruits to dehydrate because, like drying lemons or strawberries they take…
Do you have these 15 essential dehydrated foods in your pantry? These shelf-stable foods can be used for any recipes you already make! Use the list to help create a well-stocked, dried food pantry for your family! These pantry staples are good for year-round use. Of course, you can purchase them in many stores or…
Create a quick and easy pumpkin butter to use on top of pancakes, waffles, toast, muffins, and more! Using canned pumpkin puree makes this a fifteen-minute fruit butter that saves you hours in the kitchen! Making fruit butter is a wonderful way to use excess fruit all year long. It’s especially wonderful in the autumn…
Dehydrate scallions to add a punch of fresh flavor to your spice cabinet and up your onion powder game. Use this simple technique to dehydrate green onions and create a twist on traditional onion powder. Scallions or Green Onions Actually, they’re both. They are a member of the allium family, with a similar pungent flavor…
Meals in Jar recipes are the perfect way to use your dehydrated foods and pantry staples to create long-term food storage meals for your family. They also make great kits for easy meals for those weeknights when you don’t have time to prep. Those nights when you are on a tight schedule from kids’ school…
Dehydrate cranberries to make your Craisins or just cranberry bits for baking and snacks! It’s an easy and tasty way to preserve cranberries for long-term storage. And the cranberry powder is incredible, too! How to Dehydrate Cranberries Quick Instructions: Break the skin, dry at 135°F/57°C until brittle. Like any other berry, cranberries need to have…
Dehydrated Tomato Chips are a nutritious snack that is so easy to make in your dehydrator. Use the best of the season tomatoes, a little seasoning, and have chips that will make your mouth water! Whether you use garden-fresh or store-bought tomatoes, dehydrating tomato chips is an effective way to preserve tomatoes throughout the year…
Dehydrate cherries and preserve the fresh taste of cherries to use all year in trail mix, yogurt, snacks, and so many other great treats! The only thing I knew of cherries growing up was the ones that came out of a can that my grandmother would smother a cheesecake with. I loathed them. And there…
Need some ideas for using up all that extra zucchini you have? Use one of these eight ways to dehydrate zucchini in eight ways, and stop throwing away your extra zucchini every year! From chips to cubes to flour to shreds, make your abundance of zucchini useful in so many easy ways! And you can…
These 25+ amazing uses for watermelon will elevate your traditional summertime treat! Preserving watermelon is so easy with freezing, dehydrating, canning, pickling, and more! Did you grow up having watermelon as a traditional summertime snack at picnics and baseball games? But there’s so much more to the experience of a ripe watermelon than just eating…
Dehydrate sweet peppers in a multitude of ways to save for the whole year! Do whole, diced, rings, julienne, and more – including oven directions! Sweet peppers are so fanastic, aren’t they? And unlike bell peppers, you can actually dehydrate many sweet peppers whole! They look fantastic in a jar for Christmas gifts, or to…
Three ways to rehydrate dehydrated food to use for dinner tonight or in hiking meals on the go! These easy steps will have you confident in your dehydrating for food storage skills! Instead of just sitting and staring at your dehydrated foods, you need to learn to use dried foods in cooking for your family….
Dehydrating Food Made Easy. Herbs fruit vegetables recipes Summer Dehydrating See All > 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 vegetable stock (or broth) to create a shelf-stable soup base for meals in a jar recipe, hiking and camping meals, and having long-term food storage from homemade stock. It’s a great way to use leftovers and avoid food waste, too! How to Dehydrate Vegetable Stock Start with the veggie broth of your choice. If…
Welcome to The Purposeful Pantry – the new home of Dehydrating Made Easy! I’m so glad to have you here. We focus on stocking our pantries in all sorts of ways with home-preserved foods and methods of pantry organization. I hope you’ll find even more info handy – and you can check into our Dehydrating…
Learn to dehydrate cauliflower to add it to your food storage as well as make it more accessible for low-carb and Keto friendly meals. Cauliflower has made an incredible comeback from that vegetable that languished on veggie trays at social gatherings to an integral part of low carb and Keto Diet lifestyles. But it goes…
