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The Healthiest Vegetables to Grow in Your Garden (And How to Preserve Them)
Growing your own vegetables is one of the best ways to enjoy fresh, nutritious food while reducing grocery costs and preserving seasonal harvests. Homegrown vegetables are often harvested at peak ripeness, giving you exceptional flavor and allowing you to preserve...
A Freeze-Dried Chickpea Bowl, Plus a Diabetes Risk Check
More than 1 in 3 U.S. adults have prediabetes, and most don't know it. The American Diabetes Association offers a free, roughly 60-second online screening tool to check your own risk — a small step worth taking alongside the kind...
Healthier BBQ Turkey Meatballs for National Meatball Day
National Meatball Day falls during National Nutrition Month, which makes it a good excuse to make a batch the healthier way. Traditional meatballs can run heavy on fat, salt, and sugar — this version, built around ground turkey and a...
A Squash and Mozzarella Quiche Recipe Worth Sharing
Random Act of Kindness Day falls on February 17th, but kindness doesn't need a date on the calendar. Harvest Right customers have shared stories of using their freeze dryers to give food to people going through natural disasters, layoffs, financial...
Make-Ahead Holiday Breakfasts With a Freeze Dryer
If you're cooking a big Christmas or New Year's dinner, there usually isn't room on the stove — or the energy left over — to also put together a big breakfast for everyone that same morning. Freeze-drying breakfast ahead of...
Freeze-Drying and Rehydrating a Full Pasta Dinner
Once you've freeze-dried a full meal, getting it back to the table is fast enough that it starts to feel like a shortcut you shouldn't be allowed to have. Here's a real example, start to finish. Freeze-Drying Multiple Components Together...
Freeze-Drying and Rehydrating a Ham Dinner
A full ham dinner freeze-dries well in a single cycle, and having one ready to go is useful for more than just emergencies — a power outage or storm is one reason to reach for it, but so is a...
Freeze-Drying a Full Turkey Dinner: What We Learned
A complete turkey dinner freeze-dries better than you'd expect, as long as you split it across the right cycles and handle each component a little differently when it's time to rehydrate. How to Split the Batch Two cycles works well...
How to Eat More Vegetables Every Day: 35 Easy & Delicious Ideas
Eating more vegetables doesn't have to mean giving up your favorite meals. For many people, the easiest way to improve their diet isn't by following a complicated nutrition plan—it's by making small, consistent changes that naturally increase the amount of...