Drying Food Saves Money and Provides Garden Produce All Year Long

Drying food is a healthy and delicious way to eat local produce year round. This simple, traditional food preservation method will provide you with a pantry full of delicious treats without spending more on groceries.

Food Drying With an Attitude gives you the simple steps and recipes needed to become an expert in drying food. From traditional jerky and dry nuts, to all kinds of fruit leather, this book by Mary T. Bell delivers the best tips for drying food.

Preserving food with techniques like drying will save you money— by being able to preserve produce when it is in season, at the peak of its flavor and affordability— as well as help you maintain a level of self reliance.

By keeping dry food in your pantry, you will be contributing to a more sustainable food production system, one that relies on drying food, a traditional food preservation method, rather than costly transportation from faraway places for out-of-season produce. Drying food also provides an alternative to wasting leftovers otherwise destined for the garbage bin.

All you need to start drying food is an electric food dehydrator, or a solar powered one, and the easy-to-follow recipes in Food Drying With an Attitude. Soon, you’ll be on your way to making all kinds of snacks and meals.  

Your new expertise in drying food will delight children with delicious fruit leather made with their favorite fruits at a fraction of the price compared with the sugar-loaded processed alternative. You can also dry chunks of apples to add to homemade trail mix or granola, dry tomatoes to flavor pasta and pizza, or make jerky for a protein-packed snack for all your outdoors activities.

Bell is an expert in drying food and has been using this food preservation method for more than three decades. With this one-of-a-kind resource, she puts all of her food drying knowledge in your hands, so you too can enjoy healthy and delicious dry food all year long.

Each season brings a number of food drying opportunities, from apples in the fall, to tomatoes in the summer, there just isn’t a bad time for drying food.

Let Bell’s Food Drying With an Attitude be your guide to drying food. Order a copy today and you’ll soon reap the benefits of delicious dried foods and lower grocery bills!