Project Put Together: Food Dehydrator

Dehydrating BananasTrying to reduce my gluten intake means I need to find all new snack foods. I love snacking. Dangit, I love it SO MUCH! But I have to let go of the crackers and find something else to eat.

When I was a young teenager I used to babysit for a family that had a food dehydrator and would dehydrate everything. Their shelves were stocked with fruit leather and vegetable soup mix, and dried bananas. And every time I was there I made a beeline for that pantry and gorged myself on those bananas. I did it so often that the bananas eventually disappeared and I swore they hid them from me. Gosh I was a terrible babysitter.

But that memory came back to me when I was thinking of what snack food could possibly replace my beloved Cheez-its. So I kicked up the old Amazon Prime and in a couple of days I was making them myself. Although I made the mistake of giving Atti some, and now a war is waging over the “candy bananas.” They don’t last very long around here.