Food what is the most nutritious food to freeze dry excluding meat
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packyderms_wife
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Eggs are great. My favorite is fruit (strawberries, cherries, blueberries, bananas). Of course there is tons of uses for tomato powder, celery powder, onion powder, garlic powder, and other great herbs and seasonings. I currently have 4 trays of diced bell peppers waiting to go in.
Tom McDowell
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Just guessing - Must be a complex dish.
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parsonswife
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I concentrate on protein, doing a lot of cottage cheese, eggs and yogurt.
Same here. Diced apples with the peel on is one of the go to snacks here. Creamed corn is another. Squash yet another including yellow crookneck, zucchini, and butternut. Sweet potatoes when they can be purchased on sale. And of course eggs by the sixty count. I need to do shredded cheese asap as I've run out "experimenting".
I need to do more whole meals however.
Add in there black eyed peas, pinto beans, black beans, and rice to create whole proteins.
pinkelsteinsmom
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Please recommend a good freeze dryer
Why would you exclude the most nutrition dense food on the planet?
school marm
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Guessing that he wants suggestions other than meat, which he is already doing.
school marm
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I agree with others that eggs are probably the single most nutritious food to freeze dry, including being one of the most versatile. FD them raw for baking, cooking, making mayonnaise, etc. FD them already cooked and scrambled for quick breakfasts. DH really likes the FD scrambled eggs. I FD'ed a lot of eggs in the beginning. I also did a lot of cheese.
Naturally, during the harvest, I focus on getting the produce preserved. During the off-season, like now, I've been making yogurt with my older powdered milk and then FDing as is or turning it into smoothies and then FDing those. The FD'ed yogurt can be reconstituted to make more yogurt in the future. The smoothies reconstitute perfectly. I buy fruit when it's on sale and discounted meat and produce. I just finished FDing 50 cans of pumpkin that I got for 50 cents each two years ago.
I guess the first focus is protein for my DH, who is a type-1 diabetic. The second focus is on food that will be really hard to get post-collapse. And then after that, I concentrate on saving as much time and labor as possible in the future, i.e., making yogurt is pretty easy right now with electricity (about 4 hours total using the instapot). It will be a lot more labor-intensive without it, and I might have a harder time monitoring the temperature.
For the poster who asked about FD brands, I think Harvest Right is the only manufacturer right now, though I've heard rumblings about the Chinese making something.
1-12020
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The Harvest Right Large is what I have.
Works great.
To me it large is the best option or extra large.
Small and medium don't have enough capacity.
My family love to eat freeze dried apples with cinnamon and sugar also strawberries are great.
Bags of veggies for 99c is what I have found to be economical.
1-12020
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Yep, thanks.
parsonswife
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Bought many #10 commercial size cans if corn and green beans....FD them into smaller package sizes for DH abs and myself.
Toosh
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The most nutritious, non-meat food on the planet is moringa. Just do an internet search for "most nutritious food." I grow it, dehydrate it and put it in capsules.
I don't FD. I prefer dehydrating and canning. But assuming you are looking for food security then high calories, protein and fat must be your top priority. Potatoes and sweet pots; sunflower seeds and nuts. Peas, dry beans and eggs also make the list.
Next I would focus on corn, garlic, onions, peppers, cabbage, tomatoes, berries and herbs/spices.
Use an online nutrition analyzer (www.cronometer.com). Enter a typical day of food and quantity you like to eat and see where the macros and micros end up to find where you need more nutritional elements.
Important note: Every home-grown diet that I've done is deficient in vitamin D and calcium. No ways around it. D is vitally important. If you live in a northern climate then plan to supplement for D, specially in the winter. Calcium has no long term deficiency problems according to the latest studies. I can usually get about 50% of the RDA from the garden and I'm fine with that. Of course FD milk would give you some D.
Don't forget salt!
1-12020
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Thanks much.
Tristan
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Not Meat?
Don't know if I could freeze dry them myself, but Eggs are a very good source of nutrition.
If I were contemplating the use of a freeze dryer, I'd look into vegetables, potatoes, chopped leafy greens (for soups/stews)
A big sack of micro-greens and Mungbean seeds could help a person or family 'pull through', as well; they have lots of vitamins, grow quickly, and in many cases can be allowed to grow to maturity as well. But not necessary to freeze dry...
Don't know if I could freeze dry them myself, but Eggs are a very good source of nutrition.
If I were contemplating the use of a freeze dryer, I'd look into vegetables, potatoes, chopped leafy greens (for soups/stews)
A big sack of micro-greens and Mungbean seeds could help a person or family 'pull through', as well; they have lots of vitamins, grow quickly, and in many cases can be allowed to grow to maturity as well. But not necessary to freeze dry...