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New Year's Resolution: Emergency Food Storage
Looking back on 2015, we couldn't have anticipated the wild weather patterns we saw across the U.S. While those of us in the West were battling drought, our friends in the South were coping with epic flooding. And that was...
Re-hydrating Freeze-Dried Food for the Holidays... and Beyond
A home freeze dryer can make holiday feasts and parties so much easier. Freeze drying allows you to make snacks, entrees and side dishes ahead of time, then quickly re-hydrate and serve. Instead of cooking all day and feeling too...
Delicious Freeze-Dried Yogurt Drops
Freeze drying yogurt is not only easy - the result is delicious. We talked a bit about it in an earlier post, but thought we'd expand on the topic here. Yogurt is such a healthy food, especially if it's low-fat and...
Holiday recipes inevitably require 1 tablespoon of an herb, but you have to buy a whole stem (or plant!) from the store. That leaves us wondering what to do with all that expensive sage and basil before it turns brown...
Freeze Drying Cranberries for Holiday Use...and Beyond
Cranberries are a big part of holiday treats and feasts, and there are plenty of fun uses for freeze dried cranberries in your festive culinary endeavors. Sara Wells of the fantastic food blog Our Best Bites passed along how one company...
Here's a little Freeze Drying 101: Oxygen and water are the enemies of freeze dried food. One of the best ways to preserve food long term is by using Mylar bags with an oxygen absorber to keep oxygen and water...
Harvest Right Makes Best Prepper Website List
Harvest Right's website was recently named as one of the 'Best 250 Prepper Websites' by Happy To Survive, a homesteading and prepping resource. Here's their review: "Harvest Right. Ok here is the review for this awesome website. 4 Words: FREEZE...
Creating a Winter Emergency Food Storage Plan
Well, as they say, Winter is Coming. The last two winters were brutal in nearly every state of the Union - even those without snowfall saw record colds and even some ice. Predictions are that this winter will be dangerously...
Freeze drying protein is so important for several reasons, the first one being that in an emergency you can't live on freeze dried pudding drops, as much fun as that would be. Freeze drying protein also allows you to take...