Phaedrus mentioned a great idea,dehydrated veggie roll ups.I like it,great out of the box thinking.

Have you done anything out of ordinary that turned out well?
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One of ours was dehydrating pumpkin soup.Works really well!

Dehydrating Pumpkin Soup

Cover tray with parchment paper,wax paper,or plastic wrap.
This is parchment.Pour on 3 cups pumpkin soup




Spread evenly on sheet and into dehydrator




After 30 hours I was able to peel off paper,then back into dehydrator without the paper for further drying




6 cups soup = 3.5 pounds soup = 3 ounces powder = 3 TBS powder per cup of soup
Took 48 hours to dry. Powdered on low speed,pulsed, 'Chop' speed in blender




This is 2 cups of turkey broth with 6 TBS powder.Its VERY good.
Just 2 cups hot broth in coffee cup,stir in powder and it instantly dissolves.

3 tablespoon powder is from 1 cup soup.
There are 18 TBS powder from 6 cups soup.





Ive also done this....
Take Campbells cream of mushroom soup.1 can.Spread thinly on plastic wrap and place in dehydrator until very dry.Then it just flakes off and you can crush it into a powder.

To reconstitute add the equivalent of 1 can milk and here is the trick!
Put this into a blender and run it about 20-30 seconds to blend,making it nice and smooth,then reheat as normal..

You wont be able to tell it from the regular soup.If you dont do this you will get very gross globs of slime.

Not exactly a trick,but the gama lids are cool.Allows you store bulk foods in 5 or 2.5 gal buckets,and they screw on and off.

Stackable if you have little space (our kitchen is tiny),rest of bulk is in barn.

Mrs really really loves the things.We get em at Winco on the west coast,this is last years price...

5 gal gama lids-6.98
2 gal gama-4.98
2 gal bucket-2.98
5gal bucket-4.38
Lid opener (standard lids)-1.29

Thanks for the great idea Spuds!

How do you store the powdered soup? How long does it stay fresh?

That looks really good! My sister's friend had way more very good tomatoes from the garden than they could eat so I dried some. I also smoked and dried some Jalapeno peppers to grind to chipotle powder.

The strangest thing I've dehydrated is probably cottage cheese. I have yet to re-hydrate it but it's actually surprisingly snackable dry! Not sure how long it will keep being 4% milkfat but probably at least a couple months.

All we did was put it in ziplock bags and store on door of freezer,reckon it would be good a few years? Really not sure.

But I like pumpkin soup a lot,and its only around Halloween that we can make it,so it works real well for us.

I froze it just because it seemed easy enough and have the room.
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Dehydrated cottage cheese,now thats original!

I really need to smoke some veggies,its on 'the list' LOL! Heard smoked tomatoes very good.

This is good because you buy the CHEAP #10 cans of product,and it dehydrates into a single ziplock sandwich bag,sure cuts the storage space.We keep this in freezer,and it rehydrates to a product you cant tell any difference from right out of the can.

Not sure shelf life,I have some a couple years old now.
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Dehydrating Re-Fried Beans

A number 10 can of refried beans,7 pounds...dehydrates to 1.25 lbs




Cover a tray with parchment paper,smear on 1.75 pounds of beans...




4 trays into my 117 degree dehydrator.Your temps may vary...




After 8 hours...




Slide off parchment paper to tray...




After 16 hours break into small chunks...




After 24 hours into sandwich size ziplocks,total weight 1.25 pounds.




So this is what you get after running it through the blender to powder it. 1 Ziplock sandwich bag from that big can!






To get back to burrito consistency its 3 level TBS to 1/2 cup HOT water.I also ran it through the microwave to get it steaming hot a couple times.