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Dehydrating

How to Dry Herbs without a Dehydrator

October 16, 2013 By Mike Lucero 4 Comments

Don't have the money for a dehydrator or want to find an off-grid option to dehydrate your herbs?

During the summer, when I had herbs in my garden, I had parsley coming out my eyeballs. I made some pesto parsley, used a lot to flavor dishes fresh and froze some*. I still had a ton left over, so I thought I’d give drying a try. So I clipped some parsley, hung it upside […]

Filed Under: Dehydrating Tagged With: dehydrating herbs, preserving herbs, too many herbs

Dehydrator on a Budget: Nesco / American Harvest FD-80 Square Dehydrator Review

August 15, 2013 By Tom Myles 19 Comments

Mom with a PREP | Want a dehydrator but on a tight budget? This workhorse from Nesco might just fit the bill! The Nesco FD-80 Dehydrator Review

One of my main focuses on preparing my pantry was to begin learning to dehydrate excess produce, both from grocery store sales and our garden. I researched and saved and researched some more, and had to make the decision, purchase an expensive dehydrator and be set back from doing more preparing (we’re early enough in […]

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How to Dehydrate Mushrooms

July 16, 2013 By Emily Mendel Leave a Comment

Mom with a PREP |Love mushrooms all year long but have a hard time keeping them in stock before they get all 'fungusy?" Dehydrating mushrooms is easy! #foodstorage #mushroom

PIN IT! We use a lot of mushrooms in our cooking at home, but don’t go to the grocery store often enough to keep them in stock on our shelf with their short shelf life. So when a local store has mushrooms on sale for $1.20/lb, we jump on it and try to buy enough […]

Filed Under: Dehydrating, Food Storage Tagged With: mushrooms

How to Make Kale Powder and Use It!

July 12, 2013 By Mike Lucero 89 Comments

How to Make and Use Kale Powder by Mom with a Prep {blog} - this stuff is awesome to store to use for smoothies and put in sauces and sprinkle over foods the way you do parsley or to put into meatloaf or salads and more! #foodstorage #kale

PIN IT If you love kale and have a hard time using it up, but don’t want to stock a bunch in your freezer (learn to freeze kale), there’s an awesome way to preserve kale for long-term storage and use it all the time! Dehydrate and Crush It! Those words sound so fierce, don’t they? […]

Filed Under: Dehydrating, Food Storage, Gardening, Make Your Own Tagged With: dehydrated kale, kale, kale chips, powdered kale

Ways to Dehydrate Food

April 4, 2013 By Tom Myles 1 Comment

Dehydrating food is a great way to be able to preserve your garden bounty or great find at the produce stand. You simply remove the moisture from your produce or meat to give it a much longer shelf life. This is not the same thing as freeze-drying which is a more mechanical process. This is […]

Filed Under: Dehydrating, Gardening, Preparedness Tagged With: american harvest, backpacking food, drying foods, excalibur, snackmaster, solar energy

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