Have you ever dehydrated watermelon? Did you even know you could dehydrate watermelon? As much as we love to dehydrate various foods, it wasn’t until this year that my husband decided to dehydrate some watermelon, when we were overflowing with it one evening. Turned out, it was a success, much like…
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16 Delicious Homemade Nut Butters
Healthy stuff is great, right? Sure. Sometimes, however, the healthy stuff you want, you can’t exactly find at the store. Or if you find it, it’s super expensive. Take, for example, coconut butter. Almond butter. Sprouted almond butter. Peanut butter with no sugar. Whatever it is, nut butters are usually either too hard to find or…
33 Healthy Dehydrator Recipes
Dehydrating is an amazing method of preserving food. I sometimes feel I can’t live without my dehydrator! 😉 Think of the times you have an overabundance of fruit or veggies on hand, and aren’t able to use them up before they go bad. Enter the dehydrator! Dehydrating is a superior method of food storage in…
10 Ways to Make Homemade Gluten Free Flour
Are you ever surprised by the amount of people who are choosing to go gluten-free? Are you one of the people who has found they feel much better without gluten? At first it was written off as a fad, but more and more people are finding they function and feel better when they choose to…
How to Dehydrate Zucchini – Zucchini Chips
I’ve sort of had a love/hate relationship with zucchini. We really never ate zucchini when I was growing up, and I’m pretty sure the first time I tasted it was when I was already married. Zucchini, being a summer garden favorite in our small community at the time, was generously gifted between families every year,…
How to Dehydrate Beets – Beet Chips
Being on a special diet or healing protocol pretty much means any kind of fried potato chips (other than homemade) are out the window. (Especially on the GAPS diet protocol – no potatoes are allowed at all.) This is not really a bad thing. I’ve been reading lately about the levels of acrylamide in commercial…
How to Dehydrate Kiwi
Hello there! You want to know something funny? One of my favorite snacks has always been sour gummy straws. You know, those sticky, mouth-puckering, strawberry-flavored straws coated in citric acid? The really healthy ones? Oh, er. . . maybe they’re not so healthy. But that’s why this is such a fun tutorial. Because – in…
Making Tomato Powder
So, you’ve just dehydrated the case of tomatoes you got from the local co-op, or your haul from the garden. What on earth do you do with dehydrated tomatoes? I’ll tell you what I do: make tomato powder. What is tomato powder? I’ll define tomato powder as pulverized, powdered dried tomatoes, kept in a cool…
20 Creative Uses for Leftover Juice Pulp
I have always loved juicing, but I have never done it consistently until recently. Juicing can be such an easy, healthy addition to your lifestyle! Fruits and vegetables processed through a juicer provide energy and nutrients that are streamlined to your body in a very easy-to-assimilate form. Are you new to juicing and interested in…
Homemade Coconut Flour
Hello! Remember how we recently learned how to make our own coconut milk? Guess what is a natural, free byproduct of that simple process? Homemade coconut flour! Exciting, am I right? This process is even easier than the coconut milk. You’ll love it. But first, I’d love to tell you more about coconut flour. Goodness,…
