wildWoman
07-31-2008, 03:04 PM
We discussed dehydrating whole meals a few weeks ago - this is some of the stuff I took along on my kayaking trip (the red stuff is tomato sauce).
http://i255.photobucket.com/albums/hh154/Northern_bushrat/dehydratedfood-1.jpg
Worked out great: it all packed small, weighed hardly anything, tasted great and rehydrated easily in double-bagged ziplocs overnight. I just added enough water to cover the meal and then added a bit more when the time came to cook it.
I prepared dehydrated pea soup, tomato sauce, refried beans and hummus at home by cooking it all first, just as if I was going to eat it right aways. Then spread it about 1/4" thick, maybe a bit thinner, on a baking sheet. I dried it over 1-2 days in the oven of our wood cook stove; people would need to try on a very low setting with a propane or electric stove. When the top was dry, I flipped it around on the baking sheet to get the bottom dry as well.
Fairly little work for awesome light-weight meals!
http://i255.photobucket.com/albums/hh154/Northern_bushrat/dehydratedfood-1.jpg
Worked out great: it all packed small, weighed hardly anything, tasted great and rehydrated easily in double-bagged ziplocs overnight. I just added enough water to cover the meal and then added a bit more when the time came to cook it.
I prepared dehydrated pea soup, tomato sauce, refried beans and hummus at home by cooking it all first, just as if I was going to eat it right aways. Then spread it about 1/4" thick, maybe a bit thinner, on a baking sheet. I dried it over 1-2 days in the oven of our wood cook stove; people would need to try on a very low setting with a propane or electric stove. When the top was dry, I flipped it around on the baking sheet to get the bottom dry as well.
Fairly little work for awesome light-weight meals!