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Dehydrating Tomatoes | 7 Ways to Slice, Dice & Season Them

Guide to Dehydrating Tomatoes shows 7 ways to dry tomatoes and use them in recipes. It continues with how to dehydrate tomato sauce leather and tomato powder.

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Dehydrating Eggplant for Backpacking Meals

Dehydrating eggplant instructions for oven-roasting and stovetop cooking before drying in a dehydrator. Recipes include eggplant parmesan and ratatouille.

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Dehydrating Butternut Squash for Meals, Soups, and Desserts

Dehydrating butternut squash into cubes or powder for heathy dehydrated meals. Learn how to dehydrate butternut squash, including a great soup recipe.

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How to Make a Pot Cozy for Cooking Backpacking Meals

A pot cozy saves fuel and holds heat in the pot while your backpacking meal finishes rehydrating. Page shows how to make one.

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GSI Cook Pot Comparison: Halulite Soloist vs Halulite Boiler

GSI cook pot review evaluates the Soloist and Boiler pots for capacity, materials, accessories & packability; and shows how to cook backpacking meals in them.

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GSI Minimalist Backpacking Pot—Soloists Eat Big with a Little Pot

The GSI Minimalist kit includes a .6 liter hard anodized pot, pot lid, pot gripper, neoprene cozy, and a folding “foon” eating utensil.

In this review of the GSI Minimalist Backpacking Pot from GSI Outdoors, I evaluate the pot’s features and demonstrate how to cook backpacking meals with it.

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Backpacking Fried Rice—Chinese Takeout for the Trail

Backpacking fried rice with scrambled eggs.

Backpacking fried rice is your next favorite camping meal. This recipe uses dried rice with built-in Chinese restaurant flavor, plus colorful dried vegetables.

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Dehydrating Kiwi & Kiwi Fruit Leather

Dehydrating kiwi in slices. Dehydrated kiwi fruit has a sweet-tart flavor, and it tastes great in a snack sack with other dried fruits.

Dehydrating Kiwi: Peel, slice thinly, dehydrate on nonstick mesh sheet at 135°F for 10+ hrs. Kiwi Fruit Leather: Spread 1½ cups blended kiwi on nonstick tray, dehydrate at 135°F for 10+ hrs.

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Fig Fruit Leather Recipes | Now Bring Us Some Figgy Pudding

Enjoy fig fruit leather as a chewy figgy pudding pop or turn it into a creamy backpacking dessert. Recipes: Banana-Fig, Pear-Fig, and Sweet Potato-Apple-Fig.

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Dehydrating Peaches & Peach Fruit Leather | Fun Projects

Dehydrating peaches with recipes for Peach Fruit Leather, Peach Granola Clusters, Hot Peach Crumble, Peach Crunch Breakfast, and Peachy Fruit Cocktail.

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