Friday, January 16, 2009

Have I showed you these? and are dehydrators a good gadget?


I bought a whole bag of these peppers for less than a dollar!

I just couldn't pass up a bag of these pretties for that price!

So, I brought them home, washed them up and sorted out the ones that had bad spots and dried the rest!

So, when is a Food Dehydrator a good gadget?
Well, if you are a kitchen-kind-of-gal and you prepare most of your families food and you try to keep nutrition in mind...then it just might be a gadget for you!

I bought mine many years ago, like 12 or so, and I used it for apples and fruit leather mostly.

It was pulled out once a year and used often during the fall for apples!

But in recent years, I have found many more uses for it!

My kids LOVE homemade beef jerky!

And I have loved it for several garden foods, like my zucchini chips!

There are also several recipes in the Nourishing Traditions book that are easier with a dehydrator, like the crispy nuts (since my oven doesn't go as low as the recommended temperature).

Sound good to you? You might can find a good deal on one used, or on a good sale since they were put out by the bundles at Christmas time.

2 comments:

Organized Nutrition said...

YUM! We did onions and green peppers this past fall for the first time... we borrowed the inlaws Excaliber... OH HOW I WANT ONE!!!!!!!!!!! Either way, sadly the onions are already gone... must be because that is the ONLY onions I will use...LOL!
Those look great!!!!!!! THANKS for sharing them!

Donna said...

Ohhh!! Onions and peppers sound wonderful!

I buy tons of onions! My garden onions didn't come up.