Check out "Sarbar's" Trail Cooking website.

I did this one year and had no problems with keeping. However, for long term storage, any dehydrated ffood is best stored in the freezer.

I did find the rehydrated results pretty crunchy (as was my dehydrated canned chicken). I also found that doing dehydrating extra lean organic ground beef cost more per serving than buying freeze-dried beef in bulk from Packit Gourmet, that comparison did not include the electricity cost for my dehydrator. That was 6 years ago, so I don't know if this cost comparison is still valid.