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Today you're going to learn all about dehydrating food ~ safely! It's not just about fruits and vegetables, see how easy it is to dehydrate cooked meats too!

Learn what temperature setting you use for meats - to mushrooms! After dehydrating, vacuum-seal your dehydrated foods and store them for safe long-term food storage.

Click on any of the FRUIT, VEGGIES, or COOKED MEATS images above. On those hub pages, you'll find specific information related to the fruit, vegetable, or meat you want to dehydrate.

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Don't forget to pick up a free copy of my "How to Grow & Dehydrate Herbs" by clicking the link or the book image.

Simply enter your email address, and in return, you'll receive an important email that takes you to my safe download page!

How to Grow and Dehydrate Herbs is a gift from me to you as a way of saying "thanks" for visiting Easy Food Dehydrating today.

Make Your Own Raisins and Zucchini Chips!

Make your own plump, tasty raisins! It's easy, just visit Grapes.

How about making zucchini chips? Yep, you guessed it... visit the Zucchini page!

Get started today and amaze yourself (and your friends!) with your food dehydrating skills. Create bags of dehydrated foods for backpacking and snacking.

• Learn all about my top picks of fruit, vegetables, meat - and seafood - so you can learn how to dehydrate them all safely.
• See how easy it is to dehydrate nuts and seeds, too!
• Learn the best way to store them all in bags, bins, and buckets!
• And see why some foods need blanching before dehydrating.

Food Dehydrating for Long-Term Food Storage

Dehydrate fresh produce instead of throwing it down the disposal because you "forgot about it" in the bottom drawer of the refrigerator—or because you had too much left over at the end of the season!

Whether you want to use up ingredients or make nutritious snacks for outdoor adventures, dehydrating food is a perfect solution. Transform fresh produce and leftovers into wholesome homemade trail mixes, energy bars, and other portable bites. Dehydrating allows you to enjoy delicious healthy hiking food and picnic treats while reducing waste.

And for preppers who want to have survival food on hand: here's all you need to know about food storage containers. Store your dehydrated food safely in Mason jars for daily/weekly use, or vacuum-seal dehydrated food in bags for safe long-term storage. Here's a list of things to read:

Time-lapse Video of Fruits & Vegetables Drying!

 Watch apples to zucchini dehydrate before your very eyes... Amazing!

Dehydrate Frozen Foods Too!

At Easy Food Dehydrating, I'll show you how to dehydrate frozen foods too. When fresh isn't available seasonally, buy it frozen when it's on sale at your grocery store.

Grab bags of frozen peas and corn—onions too! 

Frozen foods are great—you'll be able to skip step two of the six dehydrating steps—by buying frozen. The good news is that the food manufacturers have already done this step for you, before freezing!

Yeah, Susan, but WHY Dehydrate Frozen Food?

OK, so you want to know why would you want to dehydrate frozen food? Aren't they already suitably packaged for long-term storage? Great question... and the answer is in a nutshell: frozen foods thaw when the power goes out, unfortunately.

When you have dried goods stored properly, you don't have to worry about the power going out for extended periods and having to toss previously frozen foods!

OUT NOW--> Easy Food Dehydrating Audio Book

The audiobook is available here:
Easy Food Dehydrating
and Safe Food Storage!

Listen and learn at your leisure.

How to Dehydrate Food - Udemy Online Course

Enroll in either of Susan's Food Dehydrating Made Easy
or Food Dehydrating - 101 Udemy Courses below!

Food Dehydrating Made Easy

click to learn more

classic 3-hour Udemy course.
You'll learn all you need to know about food dehydrating
—and then some!

Food Dehydrating ~ 101

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Short on time?
Need to get going right now?
Choose my 1-hour Udemy course.
It's time well spent.

Enroll in either of Susan's Udemy courses today:

• classic 3-hour course (featured in the video, and shown above on the left) to my
• time-saving 1-hour course (shown above on the right with a blue background)

and you will learn the ins and outs of dehydrating food safely at home.

Did you know? You get LIFETIME access to all Udemy courses!

Create Storage Space Out of Thin Air!

So you've dehydrated a bunch of food. Where the heck do you put it? I'll show you how to create enough storage space for years' worth of dehydrated food. Perfect for lidded bins and buckets; canned goods too!

click to see
what's BEHIND
the curtain...
plus see how to make better use
of an under-used closet.
I'll show you how!

click to see what's BEHIND the curtain...
plus see how to make better use of an under-used closet.
I'll show you how!

Got "How to Dehydrate Food" Questions?

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Make your dog a happier dog! ;-)  Feed your best buddy my nutritious and delicious homemade Chicken Chow Chow, and/or Bow Wow Beefy Chow. It's lip-smacking good. Woof Woof!

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Susan Gast began Easy Food Dehydrating in December 2010.

Read Susan's story of what sparked her interest in all things related to "food dehydrating."

She is featured on the Mother Earth News blog, and on Solo Build It! (SBI!) who hosts this site. Read her first SBI! interview and her second SBI! interview.

Since 1980, Susan's involvement in publishing - in one form or another - led her to create ePubTechReviews which reviews a variety of products related to the publishing industry - if you're at all interested in AI and self-publishing. The website is also hosted by Solo Build It!

Susan also runs her namesake site SusanGast.com on Solo Build It! that showcases the books she has written since 2012.

Do you want to send Susan a quick message? Visit her contact page here. She'd love to hear from you!

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