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 