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Real Story: A Family's Freeze-Dried Hiking Staple
The Westbrook family — Don, Jessica, and their extended household — have owned a Harvest Right freeze dryer for nearly two years, and it's become part of daily life as much as it has their outdoor adventures. An Everyday Kitchen...
5 Real Ways to Make Your Backpack Lighter
A heavy backpack is one of the fastest ways to ruin a hiking trip. There's no single formula for the perfect pack weight, but a commonly cited starting guideline is that a loaded multi-day backpacking pack shouldn't exceed about 20%...
RV Camping Meals With a Freeze Dryer: Carol's Story
Carol, a Harvest Right customer from Utah, got her freeze dryer at Christmas and ran it almost nonstop through the following summer — mostly to stock her 5th-wheel RV for dry camping. Her honest question going in: would her husband...
How Freeze-Drying Can Improve Your Quality of Life
How Freeze-Drying Improves Quality of Life Food security means having reliable access to enough safe, nutritious food to meet your needs — and without some way to preserve it, that security only lasts as long as what's currently in the...
Freeze-Dried Food for Healthy Traveling: 6 Snack Ideas
Airports are a rough place to eat well — not much good food to begin with, plenty of tempting bad food, no real way to check what's actually in anything, and prices that can run double or triple what the...
8 Ways to Lighten Your Camping Load
Good camping food shouldn't mean a week of protein bars. Freeze-dried meals solve that problem directly: the freeze-drying process removes about 98% of a food's moisture, and its weight along with it, while keeping the nutrition, taste, and texture close...