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DEHYDRATED .VS. FREEZE DRIED FOOD

A lot of people are unsure about the differences between dehydrated foods and freeze dried foods. Both foods are optimum for long term storage.

Dehydrated foods are without any seasoning or additional ingredients (usually). Dehydrated foods are usually single ingredients. You can mix any dehydrated food with any other food product for a combination of tastes, textures and varieties.

Dehydrated foods require cooking and seasoning. Cooking times vary, but most are added to hot boiling water. You can also do "thermos cooking" by adding boiling water to a thermos, adding ingredients and letting it sit for a couple of hours. Just forget about it, it will cook itself. This will cook the food slowly using the minimum amount of energy.

By adding water, you're rehydrating the food back into it's original natural state before dehydration, but it's still "raw". It still needs to be cooked until tender. Most dehydrated food will benefit from adding seasoning.

Freeze dried foods, on the other hand, are usually foods containing a multitude of ingredients and seasonings. Nothing more is needed, just a little cook time in hot water to rehydrated them and have them ready to eat. They are pre-seasoned, pre-cooked and pre-mixed with other ingredients, making them the fastest, easiest and tastiest foods available.

Freeze dried food is usually an "entree", containing multiple items for a complete meal. Most dishes have several items included within them and you don't need to do any other cooking or adding ingredients to make a complete meal. Because it's freeze dried, you simply add hot water, and cook for about 10 minutes. This rehydrates the food completely and it's ready to eat! (In a pinch you can use clean cold water to rehydrate your Freeze Dried Food.)
 

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Frozen in Oklahoma

Sunday evening the sky looked like we might get some snow. I headed to bed around 10 pm and slept until about 2am. I was awoken by a strange noise. I looked out the window and I saw tiny ice pellets falling at a rapid speed from the sky. The small ice was mixed with rain and at this time was not sticking to the ground; instead it was bouncing off of the ground and hitting other objects. I watched it for a while and turned on the tv to see if we had any weather warnings. We had a small hail warning but nothing else, so i turned off the tv and went back to bed.

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Later, around 5am I was woken up again, this time because I was freezing. I looked up to look at the clock and that is when I realized the power was out. I got     up to look outside to see if it was storming and I couldn't believe what I saw. Powerlines, trees, cars, and everything else was coated with a thick ice shield.    

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I put my shoes on and went outside and it was silent. The tree branches cracking from the heavy ice is all that could be heard. I went back inside and lit a few candles and put on a few blankets and went back to sleep until 7.

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At that time I had received an automated message that the schools were closed until further notice.

 

The ice storm effects lasted about 3 weeks. People were with out power for long amounts of time. I got my power back on after 8 days but some people were not so lucky.