Dehydrating food

Do it without spending extra money. That's the only way it makes sense. Why buy "survival" dried food, when you can dehydrate food for yourself? It doesn't even take an electric dehydrator. Look into solar dehydrator. Or do it the old fashioned way and just put food out on trays in the sun, covered with a light cloth to keep the bugs out!

Dehydrating food with free solar energy

If you come up with too much food, whether it's cooked or fresh, fruit or vegetable, the chances are that you can dehydrate it for future use. If you have a vehicle, place food (check to see if it needs pretreatment first) on trays or food safe screens (screens with cloth placed over them are fine) and set them inside a vehicle parked in the sun. Open a couple of windows an inch or so. Or set trays directly in the sun and cover them with loosely woven cloth to keep insects off of them. Sun drying takes a little longer, but it's a lot cheaper (as in free)!