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Letter Re: Freeze Dried Versus Dehydrated Foods for Storage
Shalom Jim:
I've been researching freeze-dried and dehydrated food as a long-term
strategy. I would like to put up at least a years worth for a family of four.
Yes, I
know that you pretty much grow your own food, but I've got a couple of questions
if you don't mind.
1.) Are you storing up any freeze dried, or dehydrated, or not?
2.) If so, are you storing both or more of one or the other? Shabbat shalom,
- Dr. Sidney Zweibel
JWR Replies: Because of their lower cost, here at the ranch
we store nearly all bulk grains/legumes/honey and various nitrogen-canned dehydrated foods.
We have just
a few
freeze
dried items, such as a freeze dried fruit as well as some peas that
we
got from Freeze Dry Guy. At a fixed-location retreat with copious storage space
and plentiful water from a shallow well, dehydrated foods make more sense.
If we were planning to G.O.O.D.,
then logically we would want more freeze dried items--to take advantage of
their reduced
weight and volume. Living at our retreat year-round has its
advantages!
Long term storage foods (both dehydrated and freeze dried) are available from
a number of our advertisers including: Freeze
Dry Guy, JRH
Enterprises, Ready
Made Resources, Safecastle, Best
Prices Storable Foods, EM
Gear,
and Nitro-Pak.
