My trail breakfasts, lunches and snacks are usually combinations of mostly ready to eat or 'instant' store bought foods. My dinner meal is virtually always food that I've dehydrated...but I've never used a dehydrator (for that purpose). While I concede that dehydrators may do a better job (lower temps, finer control, better venting), I simply don't feel the need to buy one nor did I relish the clean up during times I did use an old dehydrator that was given to me.

Cookie sheets/jelly roll pans in the oven work quite nicely for me.

Sarbar's site/writings show how to reconstitute dehydrated foods in freezer bags...one of the greatest combinations of concepts in backpacking. <img src="/forums/images/graemlins/grin.gif" alt="" />

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