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Today I am venturing into new territory and covering a topic I have never touched upon before… Food Dehydration.
Before I jump into all the details, I also want you to know that I am giving away a dehydrator to one of my awesome readers (that means you!) and you can read all the details at the bottom of this post.
I’m not going to go into a ton of written details here because you can learn all of that in the video below. I really did my best to summarize and simplify everything you would need to know to venture into the world of food dehydration. I want to give you a basic understanding of what it means to dehydrate your food and why you might be interested in giving it a try.
Simply put, all it means to dehydrate food is that you are circulating dry, hot air around and through the food to pull all of the moisture out of the food. Because the temperatures are kept so low, the food is actually being dried out instead of cooked which allows the food to maintain healthy enzymes and friendly bacteria that would otherwise be destroyed.
This concept can be really exciting for all of the raw foodists of the world, but it was not the selling point for me.
However, there are a lot of other qualities that do get me really excited about dehydrating my food, and they include:
- Quality control. I believe that improving the quality of the food we eat is the #1 most important thing any of us can do to improve and support our health goals. Making homemade snacks in a dehydrator that you would normally buy at a grocery store gives you full control over the quality of your food and the ingredients that you are using (plus homemade always tastes better).
- Less waste. If you have a garden or are a member of a CSA (community supported agriculture group) than you know that oftentimes you find yourself with an abundance of fresh fruits and veggies that you don’t know what to do with and often go to waste. Using a food dehydrator can preserve those foods so you have seasonal, local food all year round.
- Saves money. Once you get past the expense of investing in a dehydrator, not only are you not wasting food, but you can really take advantage of specials at the grocery store and make the most out of a great deal.
- Reconnects us to our food. I think this is so important! It’s so easy these days to toss food and not think twice about where it came from or whether or not we can get more. I find it really rewarding to preserve my food, as opposed to wasting it.
I’ve been having a lot of fun with my dehydrator. So far, I have made apple chips, home-made beef jerky, dried mango, dried garbazo beans, and tahini coated kale chips (recipe + photo below).
If food dehydration is new to you, I highly recommend watching the video below to become more familiar with the whole concept.
And if you find yourself wanting to dive into the world of food dehydration, today is your lucky day, because I am giving away the food dehydrator that I was using in this video (it’s the Tribest Sedona Combo Dehydrator [$450 value]). Simply scroll down below the video to read how to enter.
Okay. Now for the giveaway details.
I seriously can’t stand give aways that make you tweet this, Facebook that, hop on one foot and jump through 21 hoops. So I’m going to keep this all very simple.
To enter the Clean & Delicious® giveaway for the Tribest Sedona Combo Dehydrator all you have to do is leave me a comment down below letting me know why you would love to own a food dehydrator and/or what would be the first recipe you would want to make.
Easy enough, right?
All entries must be received by midnight, PST on Monday Ocotber 20, 2014. You must be a resident of the United States to enter. Winners will be chosen via Random.org and will be notified via valid email address (so don’t forget to leave me your email as well).
This contest is now closed. The winner is #286 – Catherine Kos. Congrats!
I think kale chips and dehydrated pineapple would be first on my list. Every time I try to make kale chips in the oven, they come out burned with some pieces still soggy in the middle. And pineapple is my new favorite dried fruit but it’s so expensive!
I would love to win the dehydrator because that way I would have the oppurtunity to try out raw and clean recipes and save money at the same time! The first recipe I would make would be your kale chips or some sort of fruit snack
OOOOOH MY!! I’d love a dehydrator to make healthy snacks for my kids (and me- of course)… I think I’d first make fruit roll ups then dried fruit snacks.. And kale chips… And my husband loves beef jerky. The possibilities are endless!!
I would like to own a food dehydrator to encourage my family to eat more fruits and veggies. I would try dehydrating strawberries since my daughter loves them and always takes them from my cereal.
Who wouldn’t love a free dehydrator. Would try some tomato chips our doctor suggested this summer.
Would love to have one for all of my fresh fruit to become healthy dried fruit chips or snacks.
I would love a dehydrator and definitely pineapple and strawberry would be my first adventures into the world!!! I love fruit treats but hate the preservatives in them.
I would love to own a dehydrator so I could take my own prepared food on camping trips and long hikes. I also follow IIFYM, so I am a big on knowing exactly what goes into my food. I would actually love to make those kale chips and experiment with some jerkey.
Oh my gosh, I would love loooove this food dehydrator. So awesome. I had one so long ago, but it wasn’t great quality and I had no idea what to do with it. I would love to try out this recipe and would really like to see more recipes from you using a dehydrator!
I spend way too much money on organic dried mangos so that would be the first thing I’d make!
I have wanted to try dehydrating for a while now. Living here in Florida we have delicious fruits and veggies that I would love to pack up and take on the go. 🙂
I would so love to have a dehydrator! The first things to try: kale, banana, and sweet potato chips. 🙂
I’ve always wanted to try a dehydrator, just never got around to purchasing one. I would definitely try your Tahini kale recipe first, it looks delish! Also much cheaper than buying it at the store. Xoxo
I would absolutely love a dehydrator! I think I would first experiment with bananas, sweet potato chips, and jerky. I really am interested in clean eating and I follow your guidelines all the time.
I would love to see what kind of snack possibilities there are for a dehydrator! Especially since my dad and I hunt together on occasion, it would be a great way to store meat and avoid some freezer burn. Maybe even make little baggies of things like pineapple rings, cherries and hog, maybe a berry apple venison mix… things could get crazy!
I want the dehydrator to help teach my granddaughter healthy eating habits. I’d make the kale chips first!
Thanks for the video. I would love to win a dehydrator…I have daily battles with picky eaters, especially my toddler and dehydrated fruits and veggies are a great way to “trick” my kiddos into a healthy food choice. Those kale chips would be a great place to start and I would love to do apples, given their bounty right now.
Would love to own one of these!:) thanks for the 101!
I would LOVE one so I can dehydrate mangos, kale.. EVERYTHING.
I would also dehydrate some chicken for my dog. We buy it at the store sometimes and he loves it!
Dried fruit is so expensive and it is a favorite in our house so this would be awesome to own! Oh the possibilities. Raisins!:)
I’d love to win the dehydrator. I would like to make and preserve my own snacks; and preserve seasonal fruits and veggies. The first recipe I would try is your kale chips.
A food dehydrator has been on my wish list for such a long time now! My first time trying out dehydrated foods was when my friend gave me a dyhydrated apple slice she bought from Whole Foods, and my-oh-my was it delicious! I want one so I can stop throwing out spoiled fruits (I’m a culprit of buying too much and then not eating all of them) and so my family and I can enjoy an extra, healthy snack, especially since my dad and brother are not exactly healthy eaters.
I would love to make your kale chips and dehydrated fruits with this awesome machine ^.^
I would love to win this dehydrater for my hubby, he’s lost over 200 lbs and I’m so proud of him, with it we could make all kinds of healthy snacks that will keep both of us healthy and happy- and I really like the idea of knowing exactly what goes into your dried foods and snacks 🙂
I would love to try the kale chip recipe yum !
Good Luck everyone !
I would love to win the food dehydrator because I am diabetic and I am trying very hard to learn easy and delicious snacks etc that are healthy, flavorful AND low in sugar. I think food dehydrating would be an awesome adventure! Kale chips, apples and bananas would be something high on my list of “to-try first” items. Thanks for the giveaway, Dani!
I would love to own a dehydrator because I am in the process of losing 80+ pounds and would love to try many raw recipes that require a dehydrator. The first recipe I will try is your kale chips! Thank you for all of your great recipes!
I’ve wanted a dehydrator for so long! We had one when I was a kid and my mom always made her own beef jerky and banana chips. I’d like to have one today so that I can make the same things with my family – along with kale chips! They are so expensive in the store. I also would like to have one so that I can prepare these things in my own home and know how they are processed. Anything I can make at home is better in my book, and a dehydrator adds so many more fun ideas to this list!
I would love the opportunity to win this dehydrator simply because I’ve been eyeing a dehydrator (not this particular one) for a while now. Not only would it save me tones of money, but I would be able to dehydrate whatever I want whenever I want. Trust me those healthy yummy snacks get a bit pricey over time. Thank you in advance for this opportunity. My fingers are crossed and much luck to everyone!!!
I would love to make apple chips to recreate Panera’s Fuji Apple Salad! I also loveeeee kale chips and your recipe sounds fantastic. Thanks for the giveaway 🙂
I would love to own a food dehydrated for many reasons. One being that my kids love the veggie chips from whole foods that have carrots, taro and the purple sweet potatoes but they don’t end up eating the green beans and I end up eating those. But it would be so much more cost effective to make my own. The second reason is because I’d really like to try and make beef jerky. I thank you for all the info you give out and hope I am chosen.
I’ve been seeing a lot of dehydrator videos on youtube lately and I’ve been wanting one for awhile now. I’ve viewed another Kale Chip recipe using a dehydrator and it is something I want to try– I’ve never had Kale before, and I figure, what a terrific way to introduce myself to kale!
I’m so glad to see you share this information about the tribest Sedona dehydrator. I have been thinking about taking the plung and getting one but finances are tight right now. I would love to make homemade snacks. I already make my son’s baby food and when the time comes I would love to be able make healthy snacks for him. I have made fruit leather in my oven before but that took nearly 14 hrs to make. One of my favorite dehydrated foods is banana chips though they hard to find unsweetened. That’s probably what I would make first. Thanks for sharing!
Thank you for your 101 video on the Sedona Combo Dehydrator. This definitely caught my interest immediately. I am on a fixed income and started growing my own food this year to save money and grow healthy non GMO foods since food prices have skyrocketed. This dehydrator will enable me to preserve what I can not use immediately. I will also be able to buy org. fruits in season and then dehydrate and use all year long saving $$$. My first try would be kale, which I love then mango, oranges, apples pineapples bananas and straw berries which I use frequently.On my budget I could never afford to buy one so I can only hope the universe will provide it. Thank you again for your attention and your post. Mary Lou
I think I would make fruit leathers.
I would like to make healthy recipes for men my family to help them leading a clean n delicious life.. Also I want to lose my excess weight..
Oh how i would love to win this !! i had one that i over used and broke.
We are avid campers. And we the healthy people hate eating ramen when camping (gluten-free nuts). Any camper out there knows what a luxury it is to be able to carry dehydrated food that can be “cooked” on campfire. Dehydrated campfire recipes are what i would love to make with a dehydrator.
I know Kale chips are the most popular things to do with a dehydrator. But one aspect that is over looked: camping food !! Dear marketing people reading this, tap this market !
Owning a dehydrator would be amazing! I never thought twice about owning one until this post. I enjoy being out doors a lot and love food–a dehydrator seems to marry these two of my loves perfectly. I can create my own backpacking meals, on the go snack mixes, preserve ingredients for future uses. I hope I win the giveaway but if I dont, I still plan on owning one soon! Thanks for introducing me to this cool kitchen gadget!
I must admit …If I won this it would be my second dehydrator. But it would be well loved and used!! I enjoy dehydrating many things. But my favorite are the time savers, like mixed veggies for soups and sauces. They cut time for busy week nights or for camping/hiking. Can’t get enough use for my dehydrator!
I’d love a dehydrator to make healthy snacks for my family, especially for my son’s school lunches and also for vacations/trips when healthy foods are harder to find. And I love the idea of dehydrating fruits without all the added sugars and oils!
It’s fall in New England. I’d start out with Apple chips and go from there.i have an amazing recipe for dehydrated granola that I’ve never been quite able to replicate.
I like to hunt and a dehydrator would make delicious grass-fed, organic elk jerky!
My son and I have been wanting a food dehydrator. He does not like to eat vegetable, however he likes to cook. So if he dehydrated his own vegetables and fruit I could get him to make better food choices.
I would like to make and preserve my own snacks; and preserve seasonal fruits and veggies that go waste sometimes because I don’t know what to do with them when abundant. The first things to try: kale, banana, and sweet potato chips.
Your kale chips looked so good, will have to try them. I am really enjoying all your videos, thanks!
Been wanting a food dehydrator for awhile. Mainly I want to experiment with another way of eating healthy fruits, veggies, granola, etc. I think I would make sweet potato chips. Luv sweet and salty combo!
Hi Dani! I’m 15 and absolutly adore you and your simple videos…. I would be so grateful to win the dehydrator as I have a huge passion for healthy, clean eating and have been wanting one for years now. However, they have always been extremely expensive so I’ve been trying to save. This would really help me to experiment with the hundreds of different snacks and dishes you can create. One I have been dying to try is Brussels sprout chip, you simply coat the Brussels sprout leaves in coocnit oil, salt and pepper and that’s it! 😉 …. and of course your mount watering kale chips recipe. I believe that there are so many incredible foods and produce within the world which is so incredibly delicious and easy, yet we still reach for the plain, salt and suger overloaded potato chips, therefore these chips are a fantastic alternative that hopefully even my brothers and whole family will enjoy 😀 … Once again thanks for the inspiring and fresh videos and posts xxxxxx
I grow a lot of peppers, so I would love dehydrate these so that I can turn them into a powder for seasoning. My first recipe would be to dehydrate a lot of HOT peppers, then ground them down in a spice grinder. Plain, simple, and a versatile seasoning. I’ve been doing this with store bought peppers, but as we both know, store bought does not compare to what you grow yourself. I also know that some dehydrated items can be rehydrated, and peppers are a perfect candidate for that. I just harvested a dozen plants today, and a dehydrator would definitely help me enjoy what I spent all summer growing organically, last longer. Thanks, Dani.
I’d love to win this dehydrator, but if I don’t, I’ll march right out and get one! I’d make Kale chips immediately, then do some dried parsnips and turnips, potatoes and carrots for soup making! Dried apples and strawberries would be next for adding into cereals and trail mix! So many possibilities! Love your recipes and thorough explanations about how to do everything foolproof. Thanks Dani!
I would love a dehydrator in my life to amp up my raw food capabilities. I’ve been a vegetarian for over 20 years and have usually eaten clean and healthy. I’ve destroyed so many batches if kale chips in my oven, and finally moved on to heartier item to dry out, but I know even at my lowest oven setting I’m not doing my organics a service. Naturally my first batch would be dinosaur kale spears with lemon honey and oil like the awesome snacks at Arden’s Garden in Atlanta. Every time I fly in I buy out the display and eat the best kale chips ever. Next I’d try beet chips, plantains, and mushrooms. Yum.
i would LOVE to own this!!! i’d make kale chips, sweet potato chips, and apple chips 🙂 oh and fruit leather!!!
I began dehydrating just last year, but to decide if it was something I really wanted to do I picked up one of the cheap ones from Harbor Freight Tools. It’s been useful but it definitely has its limitations as it’s one of those round ones where there’s a heating coil on the bottom and the heat wafts up through the trays. That means the tray on the bottom gets blasted while those above get less heat, which means I find my self constantly rotating them to even things out. As I said, useful, but not efficient. I like the features you mentioned on your model.
I’ve used mine though to make all kinds of fruit chips, but also to dehydrate various vegetables, which I then vacuum seal for long-term storage. Now as I’m starting to harvest a lot of vegetables from my garden, it’s time I consider upgrading my dehydrator to make more efficient use of my time and produce.
Great video, and I’d like to see you making fruit “leather” as well as the jerky you mentioned in the video.
Cheers,
Rich
Hi Dani, Kale chips look yummy! I tried making some with an oven at low temp, but it looks much easier to just put them in the dehydrator (plus as u said, it maintains the nutrients 🙂
I would love to have a food dehydrator so that I don’t have to waste food! I always buy so many fruits & vegetables at the farmers markets that I often don’t gave time yo use it all. A dehydrator would give me more options & opportunities to enjoy healthier snacks.
I would love to make fruit chips! I’d love to try kale finally as well as mess around with fruit leathers. What a great giveaway!!
I love beef jerky. That is what I would make first.
Count me in. I would make beef jerky for my honey, blood orange crisps for my bird and kale chips for me.
Cheers,
Louise
I would love to win this dehydrator so I can make dried fruit and jerky. Kale chips too!
Awesome!! I would like to make the kale chips…I have tried to make them in my oven and can not get them to turn out right! 🙁 I would also like to do pineapple and apples, and bananas.
This would be a treat to have. I recently have gone grain free. I’m experimenting with a lot of different foods and this would be exciting to go in that direction. I would love to try salmon and beef jerky and flaxseed crackers. Come on Radom.org!!
I would love to win a food dehydrator. I think we would try kale chips and some fruit snacks like dried bananas and apple slices.
I would make beef jerky, which I make in the oven right now by hanging strips over the rack (messy but gets the job done!). My boyfriend is a commercial fisherman, so I would test out dried fish too. Thanks for this opportunity!
Banana Chips!! I absolutely love banana chips and that would be the first recipe I would attempt. I would LOVE to own a food dehydrator. I haven’t had one since I was a little kid watching my dad experiment with beef jerky. Oh the good ol’ memories!!
To win this would be awesome … the possibilities are endless but I would start with making zucchini chips 🙂
I would love a Tribest Sedona Combo Dehydrator!!!! I want to take my almond milk pulp and make gluten-free yummy crackers! Great info Dani! Thanks so much.
I would love a food dehydrator to save on loss of vegetables/fruits. I usually buy lots and at the end of the week I realize that I bought too much and have to throw it any as it is not good anymore.
Kale and Apple chips for me would be the first recipes.
Thank you for your website. I love it!
Marie-Lyne
we have a huge garden and right now I have so much kale! I use it in my shake every morning but would love to dehydrate some kale! Love your blog, I’ve made so many of your recipes and they are all delicious!
Hey Dani! Awesome ideas and great opportunity! Thanks! I’m pretty sure I would try the tahini kale chips first, Since I don’t really care for the fried ones, but love kale and tahini. Then I’d go with dried apples. My kiddos love dried fruits and (a few) veggies… I would love to try making them myself. I just started drying my own herbs in the oven and would love to incorporate that same homemade quality into our snack foods… I’m thinkin’ it would be cheaper too. Thanks again!
I would love to a dehydrator win because it would be so much extra motivation to eat raw and healthy more often. I see so many saying how much it has changed their eating habits and just made having healthier meals more accessible to them. I also think I would make a flat bread that’s raw gluten free per a recipe from fellow Youtuber Holistichabits.
I would love a dehydrator! I want to make homemade plantain chips and beef jerky…among so many other things!
I have had my eye on a dehydrator ever since I had dried veggie chips at a rest stop on my way to Woodstock, NY. What a great treat/snack for the kids – they loved eating carrots, turnips and squash chips that day. The first receipe I would try mixed dried veggies with salsa!
I would love to own a food dehydrator because I want to serve only clean food to my children. I would try dehydrating fruit for a sweet on the go snack that is not processed.
Omg! I just want to start off by saying I love love love your channel. The simplicity of your meals makes it achievable for a busy mother of four like myself to eat clean and delicious! I have been wanting to try a dehydrator for sometime now but for a stay at home mom with 4 boys its just not no the budget. I recently gave birth to a set of twin boys that are almost 4months old. I get so busy often times I dont have time eat. I know that winning this give away will enable me to meal prep great and healthy snacks do not just me but my entire family. The first recipe I would make would have to be your delicious kale chips followed by dehydrated banana slices
Wonderful food dehydrator. If wishes could only be true. I could save my dollars on food by dehydrating produce, fowl and meats rather than watch them wither in my frig, or over ripen on my counter and have to toss it out. I would be grateful to win this dehydrator which I could never afford. I would happily share with all, my dehydrated accomplishments. Thank you for allowing me to comment.
What a fantastic give-a-way. We grow and roast our peppers, but I have always wanted to try and dry them. Also, we travel a lot and always take dried fruit as a snack as we are touring wherever we are. Peppers, fruit, kale chips which I have never done would be first on my list. Love your website by the way, always interesting and healthy.
I used an old dehydrator decades ago to make venison jerky and would be delighted to try fruit in this new and improved version of my old plastic dehydrator. Thanks, Dani.
Hi Dani, I love your YouTube learning tools. I’ve been using many of your shows to help our family eat healthier and also incorporating your information with my daycare families.
The dehydrator would not only benefit my family with all the meals, BUT I can also send my son in college healthy foods and also provide more meal choices with daycare families.
My co-worker, for years, has been bringing me dehydrated snacks (apples, tomatoes, and flax crackers.) If I had my own dehydrator I would keep it simple at first. Dehydrated apples provide that crunchy taste in a totally healthy, all-fuel food way. I consider a food dehydrator to be just be another tool in my new path to eating primarily for fuel with some true joy and pleasure tossed in. For too many years I have struggled with “dieting” and the yo-yo effects that produces. I am totally embracing a new way of thinking, moving and eating and a food dehydrator symbolizes for me that new approach.
Wow, interesting, I was just considering dehydrating my food. I had an over abundance of items from my garden. I was reluctant before because I thought that when one dehydrated, the nutrients were lost in the process. My cousin suggested and clarified the usefulness of dehydrating, that is why I was really happy to see your post. I’ve been looking for a dehydrator for the past week. Since I started my own clean eating journey, I’ve become crazy for sweet potatoes. I love crunchy texture but often singe my potatoes in the oven. Sweet potato chips would be my start ,but gosh, I would dehydrate everything, especially fruits and veggies, even though our growing season is wrapping up. My hub and son love jerky so that would probably be second. Thanks as always for the great info.
Hi Dani! First, I love that you don’t make everyone go through the whole Facebook, Twitter thing for a giveaway. Your recipes, tips on making clean, healthy and yes – delicious – food is always an inspiration. I’ve always been a bit intimidated by food dehydrators, if I win I would start with dried apples since they are in season, and then try the kale chips, which I also love. Thanks!!
I would LOVE to win this dehydrator so that I can dehydrate EXACTLY what’s in the picture! All those rows of healthy, dehydrated snacks….would LOVE to serve that up for my 2 year old who loves to snack all day long! Thanks!
First off, I love watching your videos and following your website! I would be the happiest person ever if I won this dehydrator the first thing I would make would be these tahini kale chips! I would also love to dehydrate bananas, pineapple, and all sorts of fruits and veggies! Thank you so the recipe and chance to win this dehydrator!
I would love to own a food dehydrator so I can make home made fruit snacks.
I still eat the little kids ones all of the time, but I know they have a bunch of stuff in there I should eat. I would love to make some Clean and Delicious ones.
Also I am very excited about the idea of homemade apple chips or chips of all kinds!
Hi Dani! I love your videos and have started eating a more raw vegan diet. I love dried cranberries in my salads and I buy bulks of it all the time. If I get a good dehydrator, cranberries will be my first thing to make!! I realize that the contest is only for U.S residents but will you consider sending to Canada?? I want a dehydrator because I want to keep snacking healthy and make my own dried snacks at home as well as keep the cost low. Thanks Dani for all the recipes and hard work you out into making clean and delicious videos for everyone!
I love the idea of minimizing waste–I’m famous for buying too much produce, then it goes bad before I can get to all of it! This fancy-shcmancy dehydrator would solve that problem! Sweet potato chips, kale chips, banana chips, dried fruits–I would definitely be busy! Thanks for such great information presented in a fun manner.
A food dehydrator is a must for making healthy snacks and also helps in not wasting food. I would like to make deer meat jerky first.
I would love to make healthy snacks for the entire family! And My first recipe would be using bananas 🙂
Oh my gosh, I would LOVE to have this dehydrater!! It would INCREDIBLY amazing to be able to make homemade fruit roll-ups for my little ones (and eventually the one I have on the way;)….I’d say mango, strawberry, blueberry combo, mmm mmm mmm 🙂 Love your website Dani!
I would love to have a food dehydrator to make my own dried fruit and leathers! My first recipe would be apple chips.
I have been contemplating purchasing a dehydrator for a while, so I would absolutely love to own this beauty! I’m most interested in make kale chips at home (to save massive $$$!), but would love to explore other recipes, like raw breads and crackers, as well as dried apples and other fruits. Thanks for the awesome giveaway!
What a great give away! Thank you! I would love to make apple chips- my Inlaws have a huge apple tree and have gifted us a very large box of apples- I love the idea of preserving them to eat through the next few months!
I would so love this dehydrator to be able to make healthy snacks for myself & my family! Buying dried fruit can get so expensive & often they’re packed with added sugar, anyway! I’d love to do mango & strawberries, and kale chips for sure!
Oh how I would love a new dehydrator, my old old one took a dump a few months ago, Hhmmm, think the first thing I would make is the kale chips since I keep burning them in the oven every time I make them!
In trying to get my family to eat more healthy I tend to overbuy fruits and vegetables. Almost always there is so much waste. Would love to win a dehydrator! Love jerky, kale chips, dried fruits.
I’ve always wanted to try the fruit roll ups they make in the infomercials.
I would love to have a food dehydrator so I could make snacks for my 6 and 7 yr olds. They love fresh fruit, but it doesn’t always travel well. I would try the apple chips first, I know they would love them!! For myself…I would try kale chips because I LOVE KALE!!!
Love the idea of eating good foods like this that are crunchy but not bad for you. Thank you. And, I would try the Kale chips above. I have tried numerous times in the oven only to have burned or soggy chips.
I’ve wanted a dehydrator forever! There are soooo many healthy things that are RAW that you can make with ones of these babies. And Zucchini chips are my fav!!! Not to mention if your ever going to invest in one of these machines SEDONA is the best. What a wonderful giveaway.
I would love the dehydrator to make homemade fruit roll ups for my kids. They love the store bought ones and I cringe everytime they ask me to buy them.
As a senior, adult nutrition is a serious business. We tend to cook less and snack more. I am saddened when my fruits and veggies turn bad before I am able to eat them. I try carrying good healthy snacks when I am out and about but already dehydrated foods are expensive and I am getting tired of nuts and crackers. I would love giving this dehydrator a chance to help me become a healthier older adult. Thank you for sharing your knowledge to the rest of us. So appreciated.
hmmm, what would I make first. Definitely beef jerky, dried mangos and fruit leather/rollups. Could not narrow it down to just one
Hi Dani! First of all I LOVE LOVE cleananddeliciou.com!!! I have 6 grandchildren & a couple who struggle with weight, so I thought it would be a great way to make clean & delicious snacks to kept them healthy & help with weight. So I would make the Kale chips & sweet potato chips. I have never had a food-dehydrator so this would be just awesome!
Thanks for the opportunity!
I’d like to win the food dehydrator because I’m looking for ways to jump start my health and nutrition and this would be a good tool to have for that. I love sweets and dehydrating some fruit to snack on, instead of turning to candy, woule be useful.
I’ve always wanted one to make my own homemade beef jerky! I don’t think I could ever make enough!
I would love to win that dehydrator. I’m ready to prepare all those yummy snacks. Please Dany keep posting those healthy recipes. Thanks
Being a senior and widow, it’s doubly difficult to eat healthy; shopping and cooking for one is challenging. Therefore, I share a lot of my (your) dishes with my family. And in between, I snack a lot!!! Our fave is your stove top granola with yogurt.
The dehydrator would make a healthier choice and cut down on the spoiled food. My first try would be the kale chips and from there the dried fruit which I know my great grand kids would love. Thanks for you lovely website. I always look forward to your videos and learning healthy choices.
I am a 68 year old baby boomer and I have 3 grand children, all of home I would like to feed healthy and nutritious food. I would also love to teach them how to behave consciously, eat properly, and have a real respect for food and their environment. I would love to win the dehydrator and share it with my family and friends.
I have a small garden and a dehydrator would be helpful to save all the extras.
If I had a dehydrater I woud dehydrate tomatoes to make sun dried tomatoes I would then use them fo pasta sauces, salads and additions to main dishes, Love sun dryed tomatoes, No preservatives and great tasting.
BEST GIVEAWAY EVER! Seriously. I have wanted to jump in to food dehydration for a while now, but haven’t wanted to bite the bullet with the expense. I am just about to have my first baby, so I love the options food dehydration gives for healthy snacking during these first few months when I’m so tired and don’t want to spend a lot of time preparing food when I’m hungry. The first thing I would probably make is kale chips because kale is so healthy and chips are one of the only ways I like to eat them. But I love thinking about the future when my baby gets older and making dried fruit leather, apple chips, sweet potato chips, anything to keep the cherrios and cheeze-its out of our house! I also would love to dry citrus for holiday decorating! The possibilities are ENDLESS! 🙂
Yes would love to have this to save foods that might have otherwise gone bad.
I would make the kale my first recipe cause I love Kale chips that Ive bought so would be even better to make them with my own ingredients huh??
Thanks for not making us jump thru hoops to enter
Thanks for offering this free!!
Hey Dani,
I would love to have, for the reason of sharing, my church family is made up of say at home Moms,some with large families on one income, by having one we can all save money and eat healthier
I’ve had a dehydrator on my Amazon wish list for what seems like forever. 🙂 I would definitely make kale chips first, or maybe fruit roll ups, or buckwheat krispies – so many choices! Thanks for hosting this giveaway! 🙂
This awesome! I would love to be able have one! So much of our vegetables end up going bad because we can’t eat them fast enough! I can’t imagine how much it would save on wasted food! Dehydration sounds like it has endless possibilities for snacks that are healthy and and yummy snacks . Hope I win this awesome giveaway!
i can’t tell you how long i have been wanting a food dehydrator but unfortunately it is not in my budget. I would likely to some kind of fruit first – whatever is currently in season.
Hello! First off I would like to say that your recipes are amazing! I have been into clean eating for 3 years now and it makes my body feel so good and healthy. I am now a freshman in college and clean eating has become a challenge, but I am trying my best! Keeping produce is quite hard since it can spoil easily, so having dried fruit and veggies are much easier for me to store and eat. The dried fruit here have a lot of added sugars and preservatives, which turns me off from, eating them. I would love to have a food dehydrator so it can help me continue in clean eating and help me with my college budget. The first recipe I would try would definitely be kale chips. I love that super food! Thanks so much for the opportunity.
Oh, Dani, my eyes completely lit up when I opened this email! I’ve been following C&D since I cooked my first spaghetti squash in college 4 years ago (thanks, YouTube search bar!) and am always so comforted and inspired by your accessibly healthy recipes, reliably delicious foods, and uniquely consistent style of blogging and video-ing. Two years out of college and a self-proclaimed clean food experimenter extraordinaire, owning a dehydrator has been a fantasy of mine. The ladel-wedged-in-the-oven-door method has its drawbacks :). The first recipe I’d make would probably be almond flour (via leftover almond milk pulp), herbed flax/chia crackers, fruit leather, or clean and delicious tahini kale chips! Thanks for the opportunity.
We don’t have a large freezer or much storage. This would help us to eat healthy and always have food on hand. I would probably dehydrate vegetables for soups.
Yum! Your tahini kale chip recipes sounds delicious. I would make a spicy nacho kale chip recipe (using a roasted red pepper and cashew butter blend to make the “nacho” flavor”) as well as zucchini chips!
Im so glad you did this video. I have never used a dehydrator and have usually steered cleared of those foods in the grocery store because they always seem to have so much added sugar. If I had this dehydrator I could make so many healthy options for my family especially for my daughter and encourage her to eat healthy and try new things. The Kale chips look great. I think I would try some fruit for sure and I would love to make turkey jerky 🙂 Thanks for always giving such healthy and fun options for food!!!!!!
I recently began clean eating and saw your kale recipe for food dehydration on my YouTube subscription feed. If I had a dehydrator I would start making my own snacks. Ive always wanted to make green beans with a spicy seasoning or my very own sun chips variety using carrots, green beans, sweet potato, taro and beets with a spice ontop.(I like spicy snacks). Im also interested in learning to store foods so this dehydrator would be great. When trying new recipes your channel is my first stop for ALL food-ventures. Great giveaway!
I have a friend who just got a dehydrator and she loves it! I would love to win this to experiment with different foods and hopefully find that using it will produce some yummy healthy snacks that even my picky toddler would be willing to eat! The first thing I’d make would be sweet potato chips! Mmm mmm! Or perhaps beef jerky… yes.. that does sound delicious! 🙂
I would love to win this prize, I would never be able to afford this dehydrator other wise. I’m always snacking and sometimes I don’t make the best choices, having this dehydrator would be awesome. The possibilities are endless with the amount of recipes I can make.I think the first I would try are sweet potatoes, plantains, banana and the tahini kale chips.
I would love to win the dehydrator!!! I’ve always wanted one but didn’t have the money for it. I would want to make kale chips and maybe carrot chips. I’m trying to find creative ways for my one year old to eat more veggies. He went on a veggie strike around his first birthday.
Would love to win this dehydrator. Next step towards my healthy lifestyle change!!
I have so much produce from my garden so I could really use this! I’d definitely try the Tahini Coated Kale Chips.
Hmmm, a dehydrator….I’d probably make some dried mangoes first. I am head over heals in love with mangoes in any form or shape. I was lucky enough to eat a ton of dried philippine mangoes this summer – so-so good, virtually impossible to stop eating them!
I am new to clean eating and it has been a huge challenge to break away from “old food habits”. Having a dehydrator would really help me preserve food for snacks and “go to” foods for fast snacks. Eating clean has really changed my life and I find your site recipes so much help. I am beginning to use them more and more. This dehydrator will help economically and nutritionally.
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I would love to own a dehydrator so I could get some nutrition into my very picky eater. She’s 7 and does not nearly get enough of the stuff. I’ve tried just about everything and dehydrating the foods just might be the trick. I would start off with the kale chips and progress forward with other veggies – she will eat fruit but veggies are not on the menu for her and they need to be.
I would make a ton of snacks for my kids to have at school and kale with tahini????….have to try that one!
Well, I am already a loser as I live in the United Kingdom., but you can still pick me as a winner . I can provide my cousin’s address. I threw ton of pulp from my juicer. If I had a dehydrator I would have made biscuit out of the pulp. These kind of biscuit are sold here and they are very expensive.my luck is in your hand now.
As a nutrition teacher, I would use this both at home and with my students. I would love to make the kale chips, as well as strawberries, blueberries, cherries, and pineapple. I think it would also be cool to try and make jerky.
This is a concept that is fairly new to me but I love the idea of being able to preserve fruit and veggies as mine often go bad very quickly (being I buy organic). I’m a college student and it’s challenging cooking for one, there is always a lot of waste. This waste frustrates me week after week because I spend a lot of money on good organic food only to have much of it spoil before I can eat it! I believe a new dehydrator would certainly help to eliminate this waste and also lower my budget every week! I also am big into sustainability and everything “green” so I would love to say I am doing my part in regards to lessening food waste.
I think the first thing I would make would be Kale chips! I would also make a dehydrated fruit, most likely pineapple or strawberries that I could eat as a healthy snack or in my morning yogurt/oatmeal/cereal! Thanks so much for the opportunity, good luck to all!
Neither my daughter nor I have been able to consistently make kale chips properly and this is one vegetable my grandchildren love. Also, it would be lovely to be able to offer them healthy dried fruits and veggies in their lunch bags.
I have tried multiple times to make kale chips in my oven and have always been disappointed. Dehydrating is a great way to preserve food! After the initial dehydration,the storage takes 0 energy! No freezers or boiling water baths! Preserving our food is becoming a lost art. I love to eat dried fruits and feel it is so much better for our bodies than other preservative filled snacks. I think the first thing I would try to make is the kale chips. It would be great to satisfy that “crunch” craving with something that would be great for my body!
It would be great to have a dehydrator. Food is so expensive for the average family that will allow ours to really stretch our dollars. I think the first thing we would make are apple chips as they’re in season right now!
I’ve been borrowing my friends dehydrator. I would make kale chips, apple rings, jerky, leathers, dehydate potatoes for backpacking, why not some beans and lentils. Make into a dry soup mix along with veggies!
I would love to win because it would help me be able to make my own healthy snacks and try new recipes and foods that I always want to make but do not have the materials to do it myself, and I can not afford this awesome dehydrator! thank you for the chance 🙂
That’s awesome, I love dehydrated apples too!
I would love to win this dehydrator. I have a garden that has been producing tons of produce. I am tired of canning and freezing everything. I would like to try to dehydrate some of it. I think I would try making the Kale Chips first and then dehydrate some of my tomatoes.
Oh Dani…what a wonderful giveaway. I have dreamed of having a dehydrator for so long. I participate in a food co-op. It is so nice to get lots of fresh fruits and vegetables…sometimes more than my family can eat. Dehydrating them would be a great way to eliminate waste.
I am also interested in emergency preparedness. I would much prefer to dehydrate and store my own food instead of buying MRE’s.
Thank you for the opportunity to win this beautiful dehydrator.
I would totally love to have one of these! I think I would keep it “boring”. Bananas and pineapple for me! 🙂
I think a variety of dried fruit is where I would start. Hope I win!
Would love to dehydrate my garden harvest for my wonderful family. Definitely would start with the kale chips.
I would love to win dehydrator because I’m obsess with clean, healthy and delicious foods, and it’s hard to find snacks that contain all of these. Having dehydrator will make much easier to have healthy and delicious snacks. And of course I would first want to try your Tahini Coated Kale Chips because I love kale.
I love crunchy food but this type of food out there are full of salt and unhealthy ingredients. Having a dehydrator means healthy life. Yes, I will definitely want one of this in my home and Kale chips sound so delicious and will be #1 on my list.
I would to have a dehydrator so that I can tryout a mango recipe. The ones you purchase in the store have added sugar which I would like to eliminate.
Hi Dani, I am SOOOO glad that I discovered your blog about a year ago, and can’t wait for your next videos and posts each week! As someone who struggles with poor food choices, your approach of grace and loving ourselves has helped me so much. My default is to bash myself, but more and more quickly, I give myself grace and pick up with better choices for the next meal rather than days or weeks of just giving up. Thank YOU!! I have been considering dehydrating for some time and this video has given me the information I was looking for to jump in! We have a wonderful, year-round garden in the San Diego area, and after my friends, neighbors and hens have had their fill, I need to somehow preserve our bountiful harvest so it doesn’t go to waste. I also train service dogs for our Wounded Warriors at Camp Pendleton and we use LOTS of treats in their positive reinforcement training and dehydrating fruits, veggies, and meats and fish will make great healthy treats for them. (You wouldn’t believe the harmful ingredients in most dog foods and treats!) I would LOVE to be the winner of your wonderful dehydrator, but will love you always either way. 🙂 Thank you for genuinely caring about your followers, Dani. Love and prayers to you and your adorable family. Blessings, Laurie
A.dehydrator has been on my kitchen need list. Love your videos…clear and precise. Thank you for making them! 🙂
I’ve wanted a dehydrator for a long time. I would definitely try fruit first! Then I would like to experiment with other things.
I look forward to drying tomatoes and onions. Years ago my mom dried onions and gave me some. They were so handy to throw into soups in the winter. What a great contest, Dani! I love that it is a tool to help make healthy foods and snacks.
I would love to win a dehydrator because I’m going to school in upstate New York, and there is very little access to fresh, local foods during the winter months (more than half of the year!). A dehydrator would be an amazing way for me to be able to squirrel away food, as freezing it has really been altering the taste of produce.
First thing I would dehydrate is definitely some meat! Beef jerky is such a great on-the-go snack for me, as it’s super easy to take with me, doesn’t squish, and gives me something to chew on so I don’t immediately reach for more. I’m super interested in trying new and lower sodium versions of beef jerky since the store options are all super salty (and only come in like, two flavors: original and teriyaki) and pricey!
I would love to have this dehydrator! The amount of healthy snacks to make would be awesome! I would definitely start out with some kale chips and some sweet potato chips. I would also maybe try out some jerky!
This would be perfect for me. As someone trying to lose a lot, (and I mean A LOT) of weight this would help me to create healthy meals and snacks.
I would LOVE to win this dehydrator! I need this in my life, I am trying to change the way I eat and am using your website to learn all I can about nutrition. I would make the Kale chips! Thanks.
I would love to win the dehydrator because I love fruits and vegetables! Getting a dehydrator would be an awesome way to eat fruits and vegetables in a new(and homemade) way. I think the first thing I would make if I got a dyhydrator would have to be apple chips and tahini coated kale chips(they look absolutaly delicious).
How could I possibly decide where to start. I would love to make dried apples, pineapple, kale chips. I even want to try zucchini (to use in place of pasta in recipes).I would love a dehydrator, I’m pretty sure a dehydrator would work better then the oven 🙂
I would love to have a dehydrator and this one looks amazing. I have been thinking about getting one for a while now! I would probably start with drying fruit. My 13 year old son loves dried fruit but I don’t like buying it for the obvious reasons…too many preservatives and added sugar! I would next make the kale and sweet potato chips!
I would definitely want to do fruit leathers for my kids and kale chips. I can’t do them in the oven 🙁 I always burn them. I have been wanting a dehydrator for years, but just can’t afford it.
Hi Dani! I love this recipe. I want to try it. We have an old round dehydrator that we got when we got married 23yrs ago. Its seen better days but still works. We are trying to get a nice garden going, so a quality dehydrator would be an awesome blessing. I have recently been making my sons fruit roll ups or fruit leather in our oven, so I think I would try that in this dehydrator first, if I won. Thanks for a great video and info.
I would LOVE to win a food dehydrator because I just got engaged and want to be in the best health possible for my wedding. The dehydrator would allow me to make yummy and healthy snacks so I can stay on track with my health goals. I know it’s going to be stressful at times planning the biggest party (by far!) that I’ve ever planned, and I plan to set myself up for success when all the stress kicks in. If I’m going to have an occasional “stress snack”, I want to have a whole, nutritious one!
I think I would start with some clean meat… I love jerky, but the stuff at the store is so full of junk! And some berries! And bananas! OK… I will dehydrate anything and everything I can get my hands on!
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I would make healthy treats for my pets and rescues, as well as the kale chips for me. Many thanks for your recipes!
I would love to try a really awesome receipe for a fruit leather i recently got on line. I also recently bought a book called Meals in Jars, that calls for all kind of dehydrated foods, that i would love to try.
I have a small scale market garden operation. I’m always looking for quick and easy ways to use and preserve left over produce. A food dehydrator would be a great option. It would also allow me to expand what I have to offer to my customers. Thanks!
I would love this dehydrator! I am trying to give healthier snacks to my children and this would work great!
Hey Dani, thanks for sharing this video. I’ve never thought about dehydrating food ….I thought it would be complicated!!! Seams easy enough!!. My daughter LOVES dehydrated mango and I’ve been buying it at Sam’s Club but it is SOOO expensive. Now I can do at hope for a fraction of the cost!
Hi Dani, I have always wanted a dehydrated special now than ever because I am more conscious of what I put in my body and I know that it’s important to eat clean not only for me but my family. I am really enjoying the Kale chips so it would be awesome to be able to use in the dehydrator and many other fruits and veggies.
Have many fresh veges! Would love to dehydrate for easier storage!
That such a cool thing! I would looove to have it to dry my fruit and try that kale recipe! xx love from Paris
I didn’t read the other 165 comments so my response may seem odd (or not). I REALLY want a food dehydrator for my beloved senior dog, 9-year-old Maylea.
I have been treating her with all natural dehydrated sweet potatoes that I get from the pet store, but they are really expensive. But they keep her “regular” and I enjoy making my “girl” happy.
I made some at home about a week ago utilizing the oven but they didn’t dehydrate completely. She still loved them but they don’t last as long. The idea of having to watch my oven for hours is daunting. Plus, I know I could find dozens of other options to use for myself. But she comes first.
I have several friends who own dehydrators but the challenge of transporting it across Nashville and returning it is a bit much.
Maylea hopes you pick us since it would fill her treat box. Too bad I can’t attach a picture of her or you would be “sold” on us. I wouldn’t mind making some jerky for myself. 😉
I would use it to preserve food that I have too much to eat before it goes bad. Love your personality and your videos!
I think my first thing I would do is strawberries, apples also kiwi and Banana chips, I love most of the fruits dehydrated because its still really nutritious for you and its a great way to start eating health
I am a new mom and gained 96lbs during pregnancy and trying to get it all of has proven challenging. I’d love to make healthy snacks for myself and little one. I don’t want him growing up eating so much processed stuff. Fresh is best! I’m really looking forward to making your Kale Chips they looks and sounded so good.
My third Gardenmaster dehydrator just died and I’d love another brand dehydrator! I make dried fruit and jerky. Appreciate your teaching videos. Your instructions for making almond milk have inspired me.
i’d love to own a dehydrator to make dried mangos… yummmm 🙂
Hi Dani, wow it looks pretty easier than I would ever think…. If I win it, I would love to try dried fruits like apples, bananas and pineapples 🙂 good for a great healthy snack!!!!!
My family loves to camp and I am always buying dried fruit or beef jerky (always the no nitrate, organic variety). It would be great to make my own. I would also try the Kale chips, no sugar banana chips, and some dehydrated greens, then chopped into a powder to add to smoothies, meals, etc.
Because of some recent health problems, I can no longer eat most snack foods (even organic and whole food ones) owning a dehydrator would make it so much more simple to make some delicious snacks that I can enjoy!
We LOVE LOVE LOVE homemade beef jerky – I would definitely use this to make all kind of jerky to snack on!
I would love to make banana chips! I always buy to many and need a new way to keep them out of the trash!
Being sugar and flour free, I would make crackers first. I miss having them to go with salads and soups. My Vegan friend, Mark, makes them all the time, and they are delicious! I’m sure he’d be happy to share his recipe! There are so many uses for a dehydrator — I’d keep it busy for sure!
I would love a quality dehydrator because my cheap one just died. My first project would be beef jerky…I love to have this available for snacks in the car. Second, chicken jerky treats for my pup. third – cinnamon/vanilla apple slices -yum!!!
I would love this for my growing family i have a 2yr old and currently pregnant i would love them to grow up with a high respect for food and i think this would be a good start. Currently my husband, son and i have no major health issue and i would like to keep it that way. What i would try first is the kale chips “KALE YEAH!!!!!”
Love this giveaway! I have wanted a food dehydrator for a while. I have been using my oven to dehydrate my food but found it is so hard to get the food to come out right. The first thing a would make is cabbage stakes.
Hi Dani, Love your quick and delicious videos. I have been wanting a dehydrator for several years now but have not been in the position to afford one. Your video made it look so good! I garden and I hope to expand to adding some fruit trees and berry bushes next year. A dehydrator would be a wonderful addition to my kitchen allowing me to dry foods as well as can and freeze them. Thanks for all your wonderful videos and recipes!
The first thing I would make with the new dehydrator are the tahini kale chips! I have a very (very) old dehydrator that is on its last leg. I used it 30 years ago a ton when my kids were growing up, less for a few years and more again the last five. It is such a healthy way to preserve food and I don’t have to have freezer space for it. My old dehydrator has been a good one, obviously, but I do have some duct tape holding some of the trays together! I would love to win this. Thanks for the chance!
Hi Dani, I would love to win the dehydrator, as I cannot eat nuts unless they have been soaked first, due to digestive issues. I love nuts, and I know that they make great healthy snacks, but without dehydrating them after soaking, there’s not much that can really be done with them (aside from baking). The first thing I would do would be to soak a bunch of nuts, then dehydrate them 🙂 Although, I live in Australia, so not sure if this giveaway is open to Aussies – no worries if it isn’t 🙂
Soooooooo many possibilities! With the garden winding down, I’d love to dehydrate tomatoes seasoned with basil for lo-cal ‘tomato chips’ and grind some to powder for reconsituting into quick sauce/paste. Also, treating pumpkin and winter squash the same way would save so much cooking time later and storage space! Maybe pumpkin pie flavored crackers? (My imagination is running wild 🙂 )
One of my favorite time-saving tips from your videos was simply cooking extra rice and storing it in the freezer or fridge. I’d like to make my own ‘instant’ brown rice and beans for quick meals later, or combination of seasoned quinoa and rice. These would be great bases for quick meals as an alternative to those fast food drive-through’s.
I’d also love to experiment with fruit combinations for fruit roll-ups.
And then there are the possibilities of drying the herbs from the garden instead of freezing them in butters……and making my own onion or garlic or sweet red pepper powders…..
Soooooooo many possibilites! And, of course, kale chipe 🙂
We would LOVE to save money by dehydrating our own food! Thank you Random.org for picking me as the winner!
I would love to be able to dehydrate food as snacks for my toddler. He is more of a grazer and it would be a good way to get him to eat his veggies and fruit. I would love to do all sorts of fruits and veggies and yogurt! The first thing I would do would probably be bananas. They are the little ones favorite!
Hello Dani,
I’m changing my life style and need to start to eat way better than I have in the past. I’ve been looking at ways to eat better and lose my unhealthy weight. I want to be healthy and happy again for me, and my family. I would like to find ways to prepare food in a dehydrator so I can take it to work. I work outside were the heat is sometimes too much. I find that trying to take sandwiches and other foods that need to say cool a big hassle. I find my food soggy most of the time and un-eatable. Let’s just say I end up getting something fast food like or a bag of chips that just add to my already over weight status. I believe that I could dehydrate food that I could keep in my work truck and not worry about the heat anymore. I would like to try my hand at fruit strips (fruit roll-ups). Thanks for the inspiration you give me with you cooking ideas.
Some competition already but I am doing your roasted-off the stalk-brussel spouts this very minute and wonder what a dehydrator/balsamic vinegar roasted brussel sprout reduction would be like? Would dehydrate everything possible, to include the dog food. Whahoo. xo
I would love to win a dehydrator! I’ve been really wanting to get into dehydrating to preserve and make different sorts of foods. I love finding new ways to make healthy food!
I would love to have one for healthy fruit strips instead of Fruit Roll-ups this would be a healthy alternative
Kale chips and flaxseed crackers would be my first recipes I would like to dehydrate. I would love a dehydrator so that I can still preserve the enzymes of the veggie/fruit but have it in a different state than raw…
I would love to have my own dehydrator to store fruits and vegetables for the winter. The first thing I would make is fruit leather.
I would first love to make the kale chips. Then sweet potato chips & maybe even my own bread. Two weeks ago I have started a raw eating lifestyle which I will eventually consume vegan food. I have decided to claim my life back & start eating healthy.
I would love a dehydrator to further explore the raw food lifestyle. The first thing I would try to make would have to be fruit leather!
Hey Dani! So being a new resident to Florida, I am discovering that everything molds and rots VeRy fast. I lost several mangos and pineapple this season because I simply could not eat them fast enough…I hate to waste food, and I know a food dehydrator would be the perfect fix!
I would first make lots of yummy snacks for the people at my work, so they don’t just munch of doughnuts. I would like to try dehydrating kale, pineapple, banana and of course, Mangos! ** Woo Hoo **
I’ve been looking at dehydrators a lot recently. I have started canning some foods. The first thing I would dehydrate is pineapple because it’s my daughter’s favorite.
My dream is to grow at least some of my food, and learn how to preserve it! I think I’d like to make fruit leather for my kids first 🙂
I love dried apricots. I would buy a box of them and make an endless supply! 🙂
Well, I really love & need this dehydrator. I have recently been diagnose with a rare disorder & been advised by my doctors at Stanford not to eat raw veggies. I missed my raw foods & the nutritional benefits, I had hope that I would be blessed with a dehydrator soon. As soon as I get it , I would crank that baby up & turn my juice pulp into crackers. Bring it on!
I’d love to have another dehydrator, mine got tired & went to the big oven depository in the sky. I like making jerky:)
My hubby and I have wanted to purchase a dehydrator for years to make Kale chips. We have apple farms around us so the Clean and Delicious recipe for apples would be a must. Love your channel and blog. Your can do attitude has encouraged me to try new recipes (like homemade almond milk). Thank you!
I would love to be able to store , fruits, veggies, meats, beans or any other type of food long term. Especially as the food prices go up! This would be a wonderful thing to have in our home! Thanks for the chance to win this beautiful dehydrator !! Thanks
I would love to own the dehydrator because I’m trying to break the processed food habit for my family and get us eating healthier foods and snacks. I really think this would help!
The first thing I would like to try making is fruit leather. My 3 year old son would would enjoy helping me make this snack for him. I would also like to try making kale chips, and apple and banana chips.
I would make some dehydrated fruit and jerky of some sort!
My daughter showed me this contest – she’s been asking for a dehydrator for months! We would start with the kale chip recipe above – sounds so yum! We are huge fans of tahini on everything – drizzled on roasted brussel sprouts is a fav at our house. Then it would be spiced apples and pears. It’s Canadian Thanksgiving and I’m in full fall mode this weekend… 🙂
Best of luck to all!
I love to sprout all of my nuts and seeds. It would be amazing to have a dehydrator to dry the nuts and seeds and make them awesomely crunchy. I would also make veggie chips and cakes in the dehydrator. Thanks!
I am the only one I my family who enjoys healthy eating. So, I find myself spending all of my time focused on their menu, leaving little time to prepare special treats for myself. This would be so nice to have! I love jerky!! But the store bought bags are ANYTHING but healthy! Being able to control ingredients would make me very happy!!
This would be fantastic! I’d start with apples, beef jerky, and pineapples. A great way to preserve fresh fruits and veggies while they are in season, and have them available when they are not.
I would love to do the Kale chips but add some chia seeds, grounded flax and hemp seeds in this new addition of our family, the dehydrator….Thanks a lot
I would go dried food crazy! I think banana chips would be the first thing I’d make. I thought about beef jerky being first, but I figure there’s less I can mess up with fruits or veggies. So banana chips, then kale, and then work up to jerky.
I think I’d really love to own one because I wouldn’t worry about wasting food as much. I want to buy fresh produce, but I don’t as much as I should because I’m scared it’ll go bad before I can use it all up. Having a food dehydrator would allow me to buy the produce for whatever recipe and use what I need and dehydrate the rest. I think I’d end up buying and eating a lot more veggies that way. And my husband and I need more veggies in our diets.
Hi Danny! I would love to make cinnamon apple chips, those are one of my favorite chips and it’s also healthy for you.
I have always wanted to own a dehydrator but found they are very expensive. I would love to make more clean meals for myself and family and fruits and vegetables can go bad if not eaten soon after purchase. I would first make kale chips because this is one of the few healthy foods that I can get my son to eat. Then I would make pineapples, apple chips, and mangoes! The possibilities are endless!
I loved what you said about not depriving ourselves of the foods we love. I tried for a little while and I realized good food and drink shared with loved ones is important to our happiness, and therefore our health.
Thank you for hosting the giveaway for the dehydrator. My mom used to make the most mouthwatering beef jerky. So the first thing I would do if I won is call her and get that recipe!
My dehydrator is 20 yrs, old and I am so looking forward to trying the new one on efficiency, and the glass door…I will your kale chip recipe to break it in!
1) mince and dry some garlic to sprinkle on 2) kale chips
I would love this to make some beef jerky, kale chips, apple chips, and new recipes.
I’ve been wanting a dehydrator for a while now, but didn’t know much about the differences in the cheaper ones vs the higher quality, more expensive ones. This one looks like the mother of all dehydrators! What WOULDN’T I make with this baby! hmmm…fruit leather, dried tomatoes, kale, apples, strawberries, mangoes, herbs, garlic, even jerky!! The possibilities are endless!
I would love to have a Dehydrator because I go on a lot of backpacking trips so I could use it and save a lot of money on dried fruit, beef jerky, etc. also, my favourite hiking supper is spaghetti, which you CAN make in a dehydrator! Amazing what they can do 🙂 anyway, I am going on a backpackig trip in a couple of weeks and so the first thing I would make is definitely some beef jerky and vegetarian spag 🙂
I have lost 102 lbs in the last year and a half and am learning to eat “clean and delicious”. I am trying to slowly move my family in the same direction. My developmentally disabled daughter is pretty obese. I bought her some apple chips a week or so ago and she loves them so they would probably be the first thing I would make!
Dear Dani,
This is an awesome contest. However, as a loyal Canadian reader, I am ineligible to submit an entry. BOO!
Chickpeas and kale would have been my first recipe though – great tv/movie snack seasoned with a little kosher salt and ground pepper. Yum!
I would definitely try kale chips, but also all fruit because it’s been so hard to find anything that doesn’t have the added sugar.
Dani, I truly love your show and always look forward to the bloppers at the end. We will be moving into our new home in a month and as I do the cooking in our home, I would love to have a Tribest Sedona Combo Dehydrator in my new kitchen. The first thing I would dehydrate in it would be the cinnamon apple chips! Love dem apples.
Thanks for all the great ideas and recipes. I am a site manager for 12 campgrounds during the summer months (6). Having dehydrated foods on hand is my preference for snacks. I don’t have a lot of space or time (live in a 5th wheel) to bake/prepare nutritious meals so having a dehydrator would work well for me. I want to try your “apples/cinnamon” recipe first, looks easy and tasty. Then, maybe a “pineapple/coconut” cookie.
I would SO love to receive this!!! I really want to buy one as I’ve become vegan, but can’t afford to because I take care of my 93 year old mother and can no longer work.
I am PRAYING!
Thanks SO much for offering this!
I don’t think this posted the first time, but I would make kale chips, from the kale in my organic garden. and apple chips from the apples in my organic orchard!
I would love a dehydrator! Dried fruit, veggies, meats and fish (dried salmon jerky)…First up, tropical fruit! Pineapple, papaya and mango, yummy!!!
Definitely would make some Apple chips first!
Bacon sweet potato chips and I will share!
I have tried a dehydrator in the past that was of poor quality. I have been reluctant to try again because my results were disastrous. This unit looks fabulous. I have wanted to dry fruits and vegetables again and thought about doing so in my oven but was concerned about the extra energy use. I would love to try this 🙂 thanks for the chance! I would like to try sweet potato chips as my first recipe. Good luck everyone !!
I would make any fruit and any veggie. I have Crohns and I’m a snacker.
This would be perfect for me to have super healthy snacks!
I would love to try sweet potato chips in this amazing dehydrator. I have tried a lesser quality plastic dehydrator many years ago with poor results :(. I heave read great reviews about this unit and would love to try it, Good luck everyone !!!
I’ve always wanted to try preserving my food with a dehydrator. First thing I’d try is fruit leather or banana chips. Yum!
I would definitely dehydrate some meat for jerky to send to my husband who is in Afghanistan. He keeps asking me to send him snacks and he is trying to eat healthy over there. It would be awesome to be able to make it myself and know it is all good. Oh I could send him dried fruits too! What a great opportunity to get a food dehydrator! Pick me Dani!
I have so many recipes I want to try out. I really want to make kale chips, apple chips and pineapple chunks but hands down the first thing I want to make is banana chips! My husband LOVES banana chips, I’ve tried to make them before and it was an epic fail! I did the bake on super low for a really long time. They shriveled up to almost nothing and still weren’t crunchy.
any and all fruit to mix with daily Greek Yogurt…yummy!!!
I would love to make dehydrated apple chips, along with kale, and other fruit. This would be great snacks for myself and my kids.
I always pick too many apples in the fall. I would definitely make apple chips if i had a dehydrator 🙂
Would love to get the dehydrater. I have been interested in dehydrating foods for some time and expense has made me hesitate. I would love to try the Kale Chips and also try some sweet potatoe chips as both would be wonderful snacks and another way to get some veggies in my diet. I am needing to lose weight so I can get knee replacements done, so really trying to get back to whole foods as a way of doing this. Thanks!!
You’re give away rocks. A prize we could actually use! I really, really want it. I love your recipes, your 101 lessons and your food journals. So of course…I would try one of your recipes. Tahini Kale, here we come! Pick me, pick me! My family and I would love this!!!!
It seems as the older I get (I am 38 now), I crave for something sweet and my son buy me these gummy life saver candies. I know they’re not good for me, but it seems to do the trick. If I was to win this dehydrator I could replace that candy by using pineapple and mango first, I could taste it now. Then I would adventure off by trying something different every time. Pinterest has a load of ideas for sweets, savory, and everything else under the sun. I would also be showing my son a different way of eating sweets. Treat bags for the kids on movie night. Jerky treats for the adults on game night. I know you said name the first thing, but you got me thinking, all of the possibilities. Fun! Fun! Fun!
Dani – from the moment i met you i knew you were one special lady. I love what you bring to the table. Thanks for sharing so much wonderful info and keeping it real. Sendin lots of love!
I would use the dehydrator to make coconut crusted banana chips. Yummy!
I would like to try many delicious fruit. I would love to dehydrate some mango, oranges, etc. I would also like to try to dehydrate some food for a quick soup: like mushrooms, carrots, red pepper, onions.
Lately I’ve being eating healtier than ever, this would be a great adition to my kitchen, also I haven’t won anything since I was in first grade of elememtary, (back in Costa Rica, many yeasr ago) I hope it happens again with this dehydrator 😀
We still have lots of peppers and even some tomatoes from this year’s garden. I would love to try dried peppers in a dehydrator. Those we do in the oven never come out quite right. So probably peppers (both hot and sweet) first. Next up would be apples. We’re headed to apple country soon.
i would love to win the dehydrator to encourage my husband and kids to eat healthier and to have delicious snacks like dried fruits, jerky and kale chips! Thanks for the giveaway.
I think I would make those beautiful apple chips or maybe the kale chips maybe both???
I would make the kale chips!
I’d try kale chips and toasted chickpeas…maybe with a bit of spice. This would be a first for me!
Onions! Love, love, love, crispy toppings on everything, and there must be work-around of my current (unhealthy) favorite – French fried onions. My first dehydrating project (in that awesome Tribest Sedona) would be lots of scrumptious shallots, experimenting with all different kinds of no-salt seasonings. Yum! (Dani, your honesty is so refreshing. You truly make all things food just plain fabulous and fun!)
this is an easy question for me…i had just finished chemotherapy and my brother died…ugh…i miss him so and i’d make his KILLER beef jerkey! i’m so happy i have his recipe!
Tahini kale chips for sure!!! I used to work for a raw food company long ago and
Was shocked to learn how beneficial it is to cook in the dehydrator vs the oven. Even if I don’t get a dehydrator this post has inspired me to eat more raw foods. Perhaps i’ll go soak sine almonds in the fridge now. 😉
Thank you for this wonderful giveaway! I would love a food dehydrator and would start dehydrating fruit and veggies. I have energy issues and this would really cut back on some of the time I spend making healthy foods for my family.
I just found your channel and subscribed. I would like to try dehydrating out. I think my first recipe would be banana chips!!!
I would love a food dehydrator to make healthy snacks for my 3 girls (& my husband and I!) I would have to try dried mangoes first, since they are a favorite in our home, followed by all types of friut and fruit leather combinations. Imagine the possibilities…!
I would love to make banana chips!!!
I’d love to try chicken jerky.
I want to try all kinds of food. I need to do some emergency preparedness for my family.
Sun-dried tomatoes! I love tossing them in salads
I’d love to win a dehydrator to make healthy snacks such as jerky, dried fruit, dried veggies, etc. I’ve always wanted to dry my own spices and a dehydrator would make this easier.
kymom13 at gmail dot com
I would love to start making healthier snacks for my family. Apple chips would be #1, 2 and 3 on my to do list for sure!
Wow! What a cool dehydrater! Mine is at least 20 years old and the little wires in the bottom have been soldered once. So I would love to use a new model for the 25 pounds of cranberries we picked up at the marsh. I’d also like to try kale chips, too. My first effort in the conventional oven can certainly be improved on.. Thanks for the opportunity to win this.
I wish to eat healthier and, therefore, would love to own such an excellent dehydrator and use it to venture with recipes such as your kale chip recipe.
I would make so many things with a food dehydrator. I love to sprout and dry almonds and currently use my oven so a dehydrator would simplify that for sure.
Dani first let me say you are terrific!!!! Probably the first thing I would make would be some kind of cookie with my left over almond pulp from when I make home made almond milk. Of course I would also try your kale chip recipe. Thanks for all the fun and delicious recipes. I really enjoy your videos (Especially the out takes…hilarious!!)
My son made dried persimmons at his preschool many years ago and thought they were so good. Maybe that would be the first recipe I would try. Or, experiment with jerky. Then move on to food for backpacking trips…would be so great.
I would love to make dried apples and banana chips!
Hi Dani, I just got introduced to your site and videos by a friend and I absolutely love them. This video brings back memories for me as the last time I’ve worked with a food dehydrator was back in elementary school with my best friend who’s parents had one. We used to make fruit roll ups using whatever fruit we could get our hands on and blend up. If you have any recipes for fruit that have spice mixtures that pair well with it I would love to see some videos of that. I’m sure there are a lot of fruit and spice mixtures that are creatively fun that I wouldn’t think to pair together. I would love to win this dehydrator and see if I could come up with some of my own!
OMG – AM I IN A DREAM?????? THANK YOU for making the entry soooooo easy! God Bless You!!!! I am soooo sick and tired of all of the Facebook (which I do NOT participate in for privacy reasons) and the Twitter and the blah blah blah just to enter a giveaway!!!!!!!!
I would love to win this I really want o use to make homemade jerky.
Have a great weekend and thank you again.
I’d love to try Apple Chips and Sweet Potato Chips, then move on to Kale Chips. This would start us on a fun and nutritious adventure. Thanks. I’m enjoying C and D and I agree with your food philosophy.
I would like to learn more about raw food diet/eating. I believe the food dehydrater is one of the main appliances used in this meal preparation.
I would love to receive food dehydrator..1st thing Id make is turkey jerky..I cant afford it at store as Im disabled Veteran on disability..I was just dx with t2d and am looking for healthy snacks to make economically..Thanks for your videos..Am making pumpkin pancakes tomorrow..
I love eating kale chips and your recipe looks amazing. I would love to try this recipe versus buying prepackaged.
I have wanted one of these for soooooooooooooo long…the first thing that I would make is a low sodium beef or turkey jerky.
I luv jerky but have to watch my sodium intake and can’t find any without lots of sodium in the marketplace.
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Oh how I woul love to win this dehydrator and start making my snacks healthy. It looks and sounds like the best dehydrator too. Your recipe for the simple apple slices made my mouth water. Thanks for this offer and I hope I am the winner!
I would LOVE to win this dehydrator and since it is apple season my first go would be apples! I love and NEED to crunch food so this would be perfect!!!
I would love to save all of my end of season garden fresh herbs by preserving them with the dehydrator!
Thanks for all your recipes and ideas. I have been in the market for a dehydrator lately. I work the summer months as a site manager for 12 campgrounds. Don’t have a lot of time to prepare nutritious meals. My first try would be your apple recipe, then I have a recipe for pineapple/coconut chips.
It would be nice to have the option of dehydrating the summer bounty. I think the first thing I would try would be kale.
Hi Dani. I’ve been subscribed to your youtube channel for a while now, I get excited every time I see a new video uploaded because I’ll get a new clean and delicious recipe!! I would love the dehydrator and the first recipe I would try would be the Kale Chips, they looked delish.
Veronica
I have a 5 year old daughter that is a very picky eater, but she loves apples and strawberries. I would start by having her help me prepare the fruit when in season so we can enjoy it much longer. I’m also looking for a way to include even more veggies, so I love the kale chip recipe!!
Who wouldn’t like to win such a great dehydrator? I am sure my first project would be apple chips, cause I know the whole family would enjoy them.
My younger son, Army Major, is being medically discharged from the Army. He is suffering from a myriad of medical issues and is sick & weak. He & his family (total 5) will be moving back in with us to heal. I have spent literally 100s of hours studying nutrition & gut healing & feel that I have good knowledge to get him well on his way to better health (I realize he still reqs med attention). The dehydrator would be such a help. Fruits, kale chips, healthy beef jerky…saw a video for plantain chips that looked really good. My head is spinning with useful thoughts. As a mother my heart cries for my son & all our sick warriors. Thank you for this opportunity…
HI Dani! I would love to win this dehydrator! I would love to experiment – make lots of fruits – blueberries, strawberries, pineapple, apples…. It would be so fun to make a delicious snack mix with dried fruits and nuts for my family. I know my son would dive into making beef jerky. It is so hard to find good jerky without added sugar. Having a dehydrator would just add more fun and adventure to the clean and delicious food journey. Thanks for the opportunity, Dani!
Hi Dani
Pick Me, Pick Me >>>>
I would love to win the dehydrator because I would have the opportunity to prepare raw and clean recipes for my family and save money at the same time! The first recipe I would make would be turkey jerky!
My sister lived in Hawaii and was able to get mangos from trees in her yard. She would dehydrate those fresh mangos and send them to us and they were so delicious! That is the first thing I would use the dehydrator for. I miss those dried mangos so much. I know mine wouldn’t be as fresh from the trees my sister sent but I think I would still love them.
Dani this is a great video – i enjoyed all the details. I have been thinking about getting a dehydrator for some time but it is so expensive. I hope i’m the lucky winner. Thank you.
I have a very old inexpensive dehydrator which barely works anymore. I am actually afraid to make jerky in it because it works so poorly now. I would love to have a new nice one and the first thing I would make would be jerky.
I would make either kale chips or turkey jerky. I can’t have certain seasonings and most of the time I feel limited in what I can eat. A dehydrator would empower me to freely and to not feel so restricted.
I’d love to try dehydrated mango and also kale chips. Thanks for sharing!
I love dried fruit but store bought is covered in sugar! so this would be fantastic to have!
My grandson, Andrew, suffers from ee disease and is on a very limited diet. My daughter-in-law and son are very vigilant re all the foods he cannot eat because of the various ingredients he’s not able to digest. His diet is very bland because of all the restrictions but feel he would be able to eat more of the wonderful dehydrated foods available with the dehydrator. Thank you. Stay well and happy.Joan
I would love to learn how to prepare all type of healthy food in this dehydrator for myself and family. Having you to reference as I learn is a plus. I refer to you for help preparing a lot of healthy recipes. Your videos are much appreciated! I would love to learn to make deer jerky to share with family and friends. I put my deer stand up yesterday! Deer season starts November 22.
Hi Dani! 🙂
I am really excited about this dehydrator so that I can continue making your recipes. I’ve been following your channel and site for over a year now, and i’ve learned how to live a more healthy lifestyle because of your advice. I’m most excited to make your apple cinnamon chips because i’m extremely allergic to raw apples, peaches, plums, etc, and a dehydrator changes the shape of the molecule, making it possible for me to consume these nutritious fruits which I otherwise would never be able to eat.
Thank you for the opportunity and I hope you are having a lovely day!
Paola
This looks so good . It’s got to be a thousand times healthy for you then these potato chips I’m eating right now. Would be nice to give it a try. Thanks
I would love to win this awesome prize :).
My first recipe I try will be banana chips.
I wanna win this awesome appliance!!! I would start with all fruit stuff. I’ve never dehydrated before but would love to for all kinds of good reasons 😛
Hi Dani, I would love to learn how to dehydrate food! Thanks for all of your awesome videos on YouTube! I watch them all, and have tried several of them!
Your cinnamon apple chips have really activated my salivary glands, and that’s probably what I would try first. Second might be cinnamon banana chips. Excuse me, I need to get a towel to catch the drool. I’m really enjoying your site and appreciate that you include videos for those of us who do better seeing a recipe put together.
I would love a food dehydrator. I teach a high school cooking class and I am always looking for different ways to play with food. The first thing I would make are dehydrated fruit blue berries, strawberries and other tasty morsels
I have been wanting a food dehydrator for a while. Number 1 on my list is dried mango for myself and my daughter. We can’t ever get enough mango! My husband is crazy for beef jerky but reading the label on the jerky disgusts me, so I would love to make it myself. And we can’t forget our puppy, a french bulldog who would love dried sweet potatoes.
Hi Dani, great video! I would LOVE to have a food dehydrator because one of my biggest challenges to eating clean & delicious is grab and go snack food on the run. How helpful would this be?!!
The first thing I would make in this dehydrator is banana chips!
I would love to have a food dehydrator like this one. I would use it often for dehydrating raw pulp from juicing fruits and greens along with ground flax seed to make a healthy sort of cracker without preservatives or other suspicious ingredients. I am doing that now in my oven, but a real dehydrator, especially one with controls for raw food would work so much better.
I would love a food dehydrator. We struggle in our family to eat healthy. It’s expensive, time consuming, and my kids are resistant. So I’m always trying to discover new ways to make healthy food “exciting”. This would be a good way to mix it up and save $$ when we have an overabundance of un-eaten fruits and veggies…. The first thing I would make would be dehydrated fruits & kale chips. 🙂
Hi Dani!!
I have been working hard on learning to make healthier eating decisions for my family. 2 of my children complain when their snack is fruit or a veggie. They all do love dehydrated fruit that is so expensive to buy at the store. I have wanted a dehydrator for several years and think it would be so AMAZING to finally have one. One of the first things I would dehydrate would be bananas & apricots…with cinnamon most likely. My family loves cinnamon.
Thanks for your great recipe alternatives that are healthy for my family!!
I would make apple ravioli’s. I would love to win this. I don’t have a lot of money but this would make a lot of healthier recipes possible for me and my family. 🙂
I have used a dehydrater to make shallot, jalapeño and wasabi “chips” for the finishing touches on some dishes. That being said I am excited to try the next level by making pomegranate jam crisps and chicharrones puffs with vegetables instead of pork/ salmon skin. Thanx!! Wish me luck, I need to win a dehydrater:)
I would love to try some dried mango, orange slices, or some mushrooms, carrots, etc. for a raw soup.
I would love, love, love this dehydrator! I have an old dehydrator I use now, but it does not have any temperature controls. I just turn it on and let it go until my food is done. The heating element is on the bottom so I have to continually rotate the trays. This dehydrator would be a huge step up and I would probably use it more.
We would probably make apple chips from our apple harvest this fall.
Thank you for all your great recipes and tips!
I would love a dehydrator to have in the kitchen to make super yummy and healthy treats. I am on a health journey to clear my skin and raw food is amazing for this. I would make orange cranberry raw sprouted buckwheat granola, recipe from holistic habits!
I’ve seen Christy Jordan from Southern Plate freeze dry veggies, meat, even rice so I thought this would be great to have. I would love to try Tahini Coated Kale Chips because I didn’t have much luck in the oven with this one.
I am on a health journey to clear my skin, detox, and improve my energy levels and raw plant-based foods are sooo good for this purpose. I would love a dehydrator in my kitchen to make super yummy and healthy raw treats and the first thing I would make would be orange-cranberry raw sprouted buckwheat granola, recipe from Holistic Habits!
I would love to own a dehydrator because the two I had owned, the cheapest one you can buy, died because I over used them. I currently have to drive all the way to my mom’s house to use her Excalibur dehydrator, which is always full with her stuff. My first recipe I would make if I got a new dehydrator would be either some spicy kale chips or fruit roll-ups for my three kids who love them.
I have been on a quest to get my health back for almost 3 years and would absolutely be thrilled to own one of these dehydrators!!
I would love to try beef or chicken on this along with the kale chips recipe you shared! I have a garden and would be interested in trying to dehydrate some beets and zucchini, so many fun options:)
Thanks for sharing with all of us, I love trying out your recipes and look forward to them.
Kale chips! Would also use it for drying mint for mint tea.
I would love to win this! I’ve got three hungry little boys to feed and this would add some variety to their diet. Since my monkeys…I mean toddlers, are in love with bananas right now, that would be the first thing I would try!
i always wanted one!!!! im a culinary student who looooooves to try new things. i would love to dehydrate coconut, pineapple, green mango and green papaya. i always wanted to make a tropical granola but the fruits in the store are filled with added sugar. i would looooove looooove loooooove to win this dehydrator!!!!!!
This must be the Rolls Royce of dehydrators,and I want one.
I would love to make kale chips and dehydrate bananas and sliced mango.
I would love to make my blanched almonds in a dehydrator rather than use my oven. I would feel so much better about not having my oven turned on for so long!
Hey Dani,
If I had this wonderful food dehydrator I would make healthy snacks for my growing family.My first snack would be garlic kale chips and Parmesan zucchini chips. I have tried these recipes before in my oven and it was an epic fail. The taste was great, but it lacked that crunch that we all love with the store bought chips.
In my house jerky is a must, and we love making it at home. However, I have been wanting to try drying fruits for a long time, so my first recipe would be pineapple or apples. I have been putting off trying fruit because my current dehydrator only has the settings of on and off, and no instructions what so ever.
just luv luv luv your ideas.can not afford a dehydrator like this,but sure i can buy an inexpensive one and try the healthy recipes u would show.keep up the good work.
Hi Dani! I found you on YouTube one day and I gotta say- I am a huge fan! Me and my mom spend time together by watching a few of your videos each night on the YouTube app on her smart TV. Thank you for all of the education and information you put out there for us. You teach us how to make foods that I would never normally try because I have no idea how to cook or eat them! I would LOVE this dehydrator, I have wanted one for a while. I have been struggling to lose weight for quite some time, and I’m only 27- it shouldn’t be this hard! But I am trying to change my diet gradually to eat clean, whole and unprocessed foods. My Achilles heel is snacks- I love to snack. I think while I sit at my work computer all day, it helps me get through it. I would love to be able to make
Kale chips, dried apples, dried berries and dried veggies to snack on instead of chips or unhealthy items. I hope you select me as the winner! Thanks again for all you do- I only wish you lived in south Florida so you could be my nutritionist! If you ever decide to take on clients via skype please let me know!
I have been wanting a food dehydrator FOREVER! Buying dried fruits from the store is so expensive. I would use it for kale chips and pineapple would be amazing along with fruit snack for my daughter’s lunch-yum!!
Everything. Meat, veggies, fruit, everything in my fridge.. The list goes on! I want to make my own trail mix, salad items, and on the go snacks! Plus, oven baked/ broiled “chips” do not even come close to what they can be!
I’ve been making your recipes religiously for two and half years now and have improved my health, taste buds, and knowledge of what a cleaner lifestyle is. Thank you so much for starting your videos and making this website! You rock!
Kale chips would probably be the first thing I’d make, my husband loves them. Fruit leather is also something I’m dying to make. Thanks for the chance to win this 🙂
No doubt, my first recipe would be those Tahini Kale Chips! Since starting a healthier lifestyle, the one piece I wish I had to add to it is dehydrating! This would be perfect.
I am really curious about dehydrating. I have read some wonderful recipes out there, but having returned to university in my later years it means money is tight. <y first recipe would probably be classic fruit leathers,or perhaps to dry the herbs from my garden more efficiently.
Oh, I would make fruit rolls! And lots of homemade chips….. my family might actually start eating healthier!
I have always wanted a food dehydrator forever! I want to try sweet potato chips, Kale chips. Yummmmmm!!!!!
I would really like to try that kale chip recipe. I made some in the oven the other day and loved them! Also, I would like to try dehydrating. I haven’t done much of it and it’s a great way to preserve the garden without canning. And my husband would love to do some jerky. It’s that time of the year, too. Maybe I should make him get his own dehydrator! =)
The first thing I would make would be dehydrated tomatoes! Would also dry some tulsi for tea.
I would love to get this dehydrator! I have always wanted to try making my own potato chips.
i am excited to do kale. The reason I want a dehydrator is so I can eat healthier, to be able to save money being on a limited income, and to take better care of myself in the next half of my life.
Hi Dani! I’ve been wanting a food dehydrator for quite a while but they are not cheap. The most important thing I would be making is almond flour. I always make almond milk and throw away the pulp because it doesn’t come out right in the oven. Thanks!!!!!!
Hi Dani! I would be so happy to have a food dehydrator. The first thing I would be making is almond flour. I always make almond milk and throw away all the pulp, it doesn’t come out good in the oven. Thanks!!!!!!!!!!
Ive never used one .
BUT Clean , healthy eating is important to me and my family . I have lupus and my son has CP, so we are very health conscious far as what we put in AND ON our bodies.
having healthy things readily available IS SOOO IMPORTANT
Being able to store and preserve more items for my family is an amazing way to save money… and actually be able to use the fruits and veggies you buy .. instead of having to throw them out if u cant use them in time
Id make pineapple chunks since my son loves chewing them . =)
I would really love this dehydrator because i am most interested in dehydrating fruits, veggies, and jerky. I’ve never used a machine, and my coworkers rave about them. I would love a good quality without spending an arm and a leg, since I am saving money or a house. I want a bigger kitchen to cook in. 🙂
Kale chips would be the first thing I’d make and us being hunters,venison jerky also,and lots of fruit….yum…
Hi Dani!
I would love a dehydrator so I don’t have to waste the surplus of vegetables I grow in the garden. Every year, I have too many courgettes, apples and tomatoes, and it is so sad to see them going bad.
My daughter is at college, and could use some extra vitamins that are easy to store! The first things I will dry are probably my fruits and vegetables from the previous harvest. I would also love to experiment with dehydrating yoghurt as it is a healthy snack for my kids!
Thank you very much,
Cecilia
I have been canning garden produce since the 1970’s. Never had considered ‘drying’ the produce. After exhausting my canning agenda, my pantry shelves are full. Now, I am thinking that ‘if’ husband and I had to make a quick evacuation to safer grounds having light weight dried foods are essential.
Cheers,
izzi~avis
I would like to try something new and make jerky,yogurt and fruit leather.Thanks
I can already smell that beef jerky! Best quality meat. Not too salty. Not too sweet. This would help so much to increase my protein in ‘snack form’ , limit my fructose, increase veggies….all so key in keeping diabetes at bay! What a great addition to my kitchen that would be!
I have embarked on a weight loss journey to lose 100 pounds. Dried fruit is a great alternative to more calorie laden desserts and a way to add more fruit to my diet withoutthe waste.
I would love the dehydrator to be able to enjoy seasonal fruit year round. I could control what’s in my food since I would be preparing it myself.
Endless possibilities! Been wanting one for a long time. My daughter just recently asked about this!
Ohdon’t know if I can even express how much I want one of these dehydrators! I have been looking for one to try out drying through and vegetables and beef jerky for a couple of years and have not found one that suits my purposes. This one looks absolutely perfect! My son and I have been trying to lose weight and be pretty good with walking and eating elf year but I now have a bulging disc in my back and it is stopping me from doing all the walking I was doing which is helping me lose weight I know that taking fresh fruits and festivals it will with this dehydrator willtake me to the higher and healthier level thanks for all your recipes that you put up I found so many that I love! People just have a wonderful evening.
Bunni
I’d like to make dried fruit for my kids, but the first thing I would make with it is beef jerky! I have been wanting to make that for a long time — so I need this! 🙂
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I would love the dehydrator, especially because after being diagnosed with celiac disease it would be wonderful to make flax crackers and other gluten free snacks. Thanks!
I would love to own a food dehydrator because it would help me and my boyfriend save money and maintain a healthy diet. It would also help me make tasty treats for my dogs who do not eat any processed foods.
I would like to win the dehydrator because it would be a good way to use up any extra fruits or vegetables that may go to waste, and a great way to enjoy them. The first thing I would like to try is making dehydrated fruits.
I would dry tomatoes, mushrooms, apples, onions, bananas, pineapple, and so much more. I would just love to have one. I wish I had one, I’m running out of room in my freezer.
Having a one year old poses many challenges and one of the constant challenge is healthy food options. Having a dehydrator would make life a little less combative and a little more clean and delicious with my first recipes of dried apples, bananas, carrots and so much more! So long to containers of rotten fruit molding at the bottom of my diaper bag and HELLO to deliciousness!!