What are you dehydrating?

[jennyjj01]

Blanching* and dehydrating lots of 8p veggies from ALDI and Lidl.
Carrot pieces in separate shapes for different uses. I'm going to try to make some carrot powder for soups and drinks.

Done some shallots, but crikey are they full of water. 24 hours in and they are still soft as s.....

Done a few parsnip fingers, but I don't know how well they will rehydrate and cook.

I'm dumping and replacing some of previous years' dried onions, swedes and carrots, which have degraded and gone dark. They lasted easily a year and some is still good after three years.

This year, I'm splitting the veg between dehydrated and frozen and a few months stored 'as is' in hessian sacks. Should not need to buy veg till summer. We are not big on 'greens' in this house.

My conscience is clear, chucking out the remains of previous years 19p veg stash. It served as food security insurance.

*Blanching certainly makes a difference for carrots, which soon go black if not blanched first.