Dehydrating Food For My Travels

I take the dehydrator out each year to dehydrate ham, more on that below.  What you see above is dehydrated mixed vegetables.  I went to Walmart and paid $.89/ea for 4 bags of mixed frozen vegetables thinking it would be a good add to my travels.

I spread the nixed vegetables out on the dehydrator racks and dried them and put them in a sealed plastic bag.  No rocket science here but I often like soup and I can take a Raman soup packet and doctor it up by adding these dehydrated vegetables and make it more interesting.  

Of course you can also but this container of mixed dried vegetables for $12.95 on Amazon, which I did.  Certainly less work and a bit more expensive.  This blend also comes with onions.

As a test of my dehydration at room temperature, I put sone of my creation and let it sit in water.  The corn takes longer to reconstitute.  So far it’s a great alternative to carrying cans of vegetables as you have to deal with the cans as rubbish. 

Add hot water to thermos with the dried vegetables and this works much faster.  My experiment was room temperature to save on cooking fuel on the road.

My yearly dehydration of ham is the best.  I buy a spiral ham and dis assemble it as shown above and put it in the dehydrator over night.  Then the dried ham guests bagged as the picture below indicates.  This is how I carry it on my travels.

The dehydrated ham makes a great snack out of the bag.  It also can be cut or broken into pieces to put in with the noodles and dehydrated vegetables to make the soup even more tasty.  It is also good cut into pieces it can go on a salad.  Put pieces in when boiling rice.  

I have made peppered beef jerky in the past the same way but beef prices around where I live went up very high making that an expensive option.this year that I didn’t bother trying.

I hope this inspires others to try this too.

Brent

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