Dehydrating Basics & Journal Spiral

I loved that it was all alphabetized by fruit then veggies. Plus you gave me plenty of ideas that we had not considered since we bought the dehydrator to dry herbs and a few other things. However, I am eager to try the pumpkin spice (liked that you included making it with canned pumpkin) and my mom and I are going to try the tomatos as we have several growing in the garden. I am a fan of aoli and will adjust it to make maple bacon aioli which I have not found at home.

I just love this book. I am just starting to use it as I got my Excalibur dehydrator the first of July. I have been dehydrating a lot of my canned veggies as I have limited space in my senior living apartment. Just love, love love it. Thanks so much Pat Lozier

I have experimented with many of Darcy's vegetables and Fruits. The book has helped a lot as I can take notes on each one to say how long mine took to dehydrate or how less. I wrote down what I used in the different methods as in zucchini chips spice recipe. Love those. I could never get fruit in to my husband but he loves the apples and never passes the kitchen without scooping some out of the jar to eat. I am having fun with my Excalibur dehydrator. Oh and don't forget to try to dehydrate Marshmellows. A hit in our house. Thank you Darcy!!

Love the journal concept and the spiral bound.
I have been dehydrating for 2 yrs, but I saw someone using your journal so I ordered it. Upon 1st glance, I love the individual food item pages.

Rehydrating is not dealt with on each page which I think is a problem.

Since I dehydrate more things than this, and you have 1 page that I can copy or download multiple times. But this would entail a binder to be used.

So perhaps you could offer your "journal" in a 3-hole punch series without the spiral bound part. Then I could just insert in a binder and add a bunch of the blank pages.

when I started dehydrating, I was encouraged to dehydrate meat. I still have a jar of ground beef I dehydrated, and it has never molded in 2 yrs.
So I have been shocked lately by the number of people who say one must freeze dehydrated meat.

The meat is frozen to begin with, so why would I want to dehydrate and refreeze? My point in dehydrating is to 1) have a much smaller product in a jar so I can have a lot of food available in a power outage/disaster or my chronic illness worsens and I don't have to pull from freezer and cook it and still remain in my home. 2) I don't have to have to worry about power outages if I can just rehydrate something and eat it with other dehydrated items. If it must be frozen, then the power outage kills that option too.
3) I knew I would can more foods beyond my jar canned goods area limit,
so I wanted to dehydrate. 4) I wanted to dehydrate for camping when I got enough things dehydrated and could combine for soups and meals.

That brings up the next comment I have. You share very few dehydrated mixes in a jar. I have dehydrated a lot of foods now, and I am eager to start putting them together to make soup mixes and meals. I would appreciate a much larger section, OR 3-hole punched journal pages for mixing dehydrated items to make meals/soups in 1 jar/mylar/whatever.

Hope this helps!

Your book is very informative and easy to follow.