For many people, this time of year is a time for allowable excess. It can be fun to relax your healthy eating standards for a few days – but inevitably, come the first of the year, the gyms fill up and everyone starts dieting in effort to undo the holiday pounds. Almost every health professional […]
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Healthier To-Go Food with Freeze Drying
Those of us buried under a few feet of snow are daydreaming about summer vacation. And, since freeze drying keeps coming up in vacation conversations, we thought we’d share how some of our customers are planning to use their freeze dryers to make vacationing – and traveling in general – easier, healthier, and less expensive. […]
Healthy Eating for Your Pet
Many families consider their pet to be an integral part of the family. In fact, an American Animal Hospital Association survey found that 70 percent of people include their pet’s name on greeting and Christmas cards. For these families, making sure their pet is eating healthy food is important. Making sure a pet is happy with their food is now not only possible, but easier […]
Thanksgiving Leftovers
Thanksgiving means getting to indulge on turkey, potatoes, stuffing, and pie and the days after Thanksgiving mean eating the leftovers. Turkey sandwiches, turkey soup, turkey casseroles – even with getting creative, it can be sometimes difficult to eat all that leftover food. Rather than tossing your leftovers, or continuing to move them around in the […]
A ‘Soup’er Great Food to Freeze Dry
There’s nothing like a warm bowl of soup on a cold day. Soup is a meal-time staple with Americans eating more than 10 billion bowls of soup each year. The earliest archaeological evidence for the consumption of soup dates back to 6,000 BC. The soup of choice back then – hippopotamus soup. Taste buds have […]
Winner of a Medium Freeze Dryer
Congratulations to Ryan! He is the winner of a medium Harvest Right freeze dryer. Ryan is a native of the Pacific Northwest and currently resides with his wife, Kari, and their children, on a homestead on the Palouse, a region spreading between eastern Washington and the lower half of North Idaho. He has a podcast called […]
Dehydrating vs. Freeze Drying
Freeze-Dried Food versus Dehydrated Food: What’s the Difference? There’s a fairly common misconception that the terms “dehydrated food” and “freeze-dried food” are the same, but they are not. Knowing the difference helps when deciding how to store and preserve food for your family. History of Dried Foods With any type of long-term food preservation, moisture […]
Freeze dry your extra Halloween candy into fun treats
There are so many things you can do with a Harvest Right Freeze Dryer. A freeze dryer allows you to preserve your garden produce, create an emergency food supply, make healthy snacks, save leftovers and eliminate food waste, and even provide nutritious food for your pet. But, turning candy into delicious and fun treats is, […]
Canning or Freeze Drying?
Canning, as a way of food preservation, was invented by in the late 1800’s. It has been a popular method for preserving fruits, vegetables, and meats for hundreds of years. However, in the 20thcentury, a relatively new preservation method called freeze drying appeared on the scene. Freeze drying technology first began to be used by […]
Busy Mom Loves Her Freeze Dryer
If there’s one thing Brigette Petersen knows a bit about, it’s stretching a dollar – and an hour. The busy wife and mother of three knows what it’s like to look for the cheap and fast solution when it comes to preparing meals and feeding the family. But a nightly dinner of chicken nuggets and […]
