Dehydrated Food Storage
Dehydrated Foods make another simple, affordable, long term food storage option. Some dehydrated foods can have a shelf life of more than 30 years!
Easy to Store – Dehydrated food is light weight, and easy to store. When food is dehydrated it shrinks, so dehydrated food actually takes up even less space than freeze dried food. A years supply of dehydrated food storage can easily fit in an apartment closet, and because of its long shelf life, you don’t have to rotate it.
Cheapest Food Storage Option – Dehydrated food is likely the most cost effective method for food storage. When purchasing a years supply, the average cost is about $1.50 a meal.
Healthy – The producers of dehydrated food storage argue that dehydrated food is actually healthier than freeze dried food. They claim that it maintains more nutrients and doesn’t use as many preservatives.
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Disadvantages of Dehydrated Food Storage
The biggest disadvantage of dehydrated food storage compared with freeze dried food storage is that the foods pretty much come as raw ingredients (Apples, Bananas, Raisins, Carrots, Corn, Eggs, Green Beans, Potatoes, Onions, Beans, Spaghetti, Macaroni, Rice, Wheat, Etc.). If you want to eat a meal, It will require preparation. This isn’t the “Instant Meal” approach found with freeze dried food storage. In the event of a real long term emergency, how long would you want to spend preparing meals? And of the dehydrated food products available, how many different meal options could you have? Would you and your kids really eat them?
No Meat – Dehydrated meat doesn’t have a long enough shelf life to serve as a viable long term food storage solution. For this reason, dehydrated food storage packages don’t have real meat. Instead they have “Textured Vegetable Proteins.”
Shorter Guaranteed Shelf Life – Some of the larger food storage packages EFoodsDirect offers only have a guaranteed shelf life of 15 years. Many of the other dehydrated products that can be purchased individually, like eggs, only have shelf life of five years. In comparison, all of the available freeze dried food products in #1- cans have a 25+ year shelf life.
Although the shelf life is only guaranteed for 15 or 25 years, most of these products will be good for much longer.
Overall, Dehydrated foods make an excellent, affordable food storage option. Click the link below to find out about the dehydrated food storage products provided by E-Foods Direct.
