This week, Health Coach Jillian is dehydratin’ the bejesus out of anything she can get her hands on with her new 5-tray Excalibur Food Dehydrator. It’s BPA-free and phthalate-free.
I’m trying anything that sounds like it will taste good dried out: apple with cinnamon, strawberries, figs, carrots, zucchini, and of course, kale.
Now, one might wonder what the point is. Don’t we want the water that’s in these foods? Sure!
And when you eat dehydrated food you should drink water to rehydrate. So it seems totally pointless, right?
Not exactly.
I keep the temperature on 105F so the foods are still technically raw, but cooked. Cooking with high heat destroys much of the nutrients in food, but at this temperature, I’m preserving the nutrients and the live enzymes that are in raw food. And I get on-the-go healthy snack food – like carrot chips and zucchini chips. This way, I can make some healthy concoctions instead of always eating cold food out of the fridge. But mostly, I just eat truckloads of kale chips.
Health Coach Jillian 
One word: TurkeyJerky!!!
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I know. I have to tackle the meat next! I love me some jerky…
The Health Blog is consistently very informative and VERY cool!!! LG
Thanks so much, LG! 🙂
So interesting, HCJ. I am anxious to try these dehydrated foods when I have access to some. I have tried a few that were packaged & don’t love them. Can you make any recommendations?
Thx for this info. As always you are so helpful & knowledgable !
Thanks! Not sure what’s good from the store, other than my beloved kale chips. I think dehydrated food is generally best made at home.
PS. The doggy photo is.soooo cute!
🙂 She’s a ham for the camera!
You beat me to it! We’re ordering ours this week 🙂 I already have a million pages ear-marked for recipes that I want to try. We will have to exchange notes on what’s good! xo – E
Haha! Can’t wait to hear how it goes for you. Let’s definitely exchange notes – I have a feeling you’re going to have some good recipes! 🙂
Hi — How are you? So happy to hear about the kale chips you are making. I also tried in the oven and haven’t had much success. But, I have a food dehydrator…I will have to try kale chips!
CU!
Lisa
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Fantastic! Feel free to share any great recipes here!
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