Category: Long-Term Food Storage

I’ve been making my own homemade yogurt for many years. Most of the time it works out great. I’ve had a few mishaps, in that the yogurt never solidifies, for whatever reason, but most of the time it works out as I expected. I’ve use a yogurt maker a long time ago, and I’ve even…

I can already tell I’m having a hard time with feeling like I should always be freeze-drying something new to keep this interesting for the both of us. But I also realize that can’t happen forever, so I’ve decided that I’ll just freeze-dry whatever it is I want and then post when I feel like…

While we were at Costco buying groceries and Reese’s peanut butter cups, I decided some freeze-dried grapes would be nice, so I picked up two three-pound containers: As with every other fruit I’ve chosen to freeze-dry, preparation continues to be the most time consuming aspect since I had to slice every grape in half as…

We had some friends come over last weekend, and I remember her saying she really wanted me to freeze-dried Charleston Chews. She had some on a vacation a while back and really liked them, so I figured I would surprise her. Then, while my wife and I were at Costco, I spotted some Reese’s Peanut…

I keep hunting for new foods to freeze-dry, in part to try something new for you, but also out of curiosity for me. At some point, however, I’ll have to return to foods I’ve already tried. This week I purchased sixteen pounds of pears from Sam’s Club for $26.48: Initially, I was looking for berries,…

One of my readers suggested I try freeze-drying marshmallows, and since our Border Collie puppy, Hero, has been denying me sleep for the last few days, I was glad to try something easy. We had two one-pound bags of large marshmallows that were meant for Smores, but nobody has used them in months, so it…

Even though I’ve been having trouble with our septic–and with getting someone out to fix it–I still wanted to freeze-dry something, so while I was at Sam’s Club (getting more bus boy bins to wash dishes during the apocalypse), I figured I would try freeze-drying candy. Although there were many options with it being so…

My wife’s friend gave her four pounds of tomatoes last week, so I decided I would freeze-dry them because my wife didn’t have any use for them: As usual, I had no idea as to how many slices I was going to get out of them, but after some rearranging, I got about three trays…

This week, I chose to try pineapple. So, I stopped by my local Sam’s Club and purchased a box of five large pineapples for $14.20: As with the bananas and applies I freeze-dried in previous weeks, preparation took longer than I’d hoped for, but mostly because I spent more time cutting larger chunks into smaller…