Nine trays of shredded cabbage just went in the dehydrator.  After making cabbage rolls and holobchi there are always a bunch of little leaves left that are too small to roll.  Usually I just chop them up and freeze them to use in soups but my freezers are pretty much full, so this time instead I sliced them all thinly and laid them out in single layers on the trays. 

Spinach chips (made like kale chips), a can of pineapple tidbits that were not very flavorful and two bananas that were going to turn brown if I didn't dry them.   Dipped the banana slices in the pineapple juice before putting them on the trays.

Last week I tried Mary Bell's Unforgetable Spam Jerky from her book "Food Drying with an Attitude."  DH and DS like it but I can't forget I'm eating Spam…

Great deal on the dehydrator!

I've dried strawberries and like the way they turn out.  I don't do it regularly just because we love strawberries and I never have enough to preserve in all the ways I'd like to.

I just dehydrated 5 trays of sliced strawberries in my Excal.  I dried them at 95 degrees.  They retained their color and smell heavenly.  I used them last winter in muffins and in homemade yogurt.  The yogurt was also made in the Excal.  I took frozen strawberries and heated them gently, strained the juice and mixed it with applesauce to make fruit leathers.  I made 5 trays of strawberry/fruit leather Saturday.  It must be good because there is none left.  DD suggested mango/peach leather.  Sounded heavenly to  me.