<p><span class="inline inline-left"><img src="http://www.energybulletin.net/sites/default/files/images/100_5998.thumbnail.JPG" alt="" title="" class="image image-thumbnail" width="100" height="75" /></span>I started dehydrating food out of simple necessity. I needed a fast and easy method to preserve the hundreds of pounds of peaches I get from my two peach trees every year. However, I soon became a food dehydration fan, searching out foods to dry to see how they would taste. This year my goal is to stop buying fruity lunch snacks for my son, who loves the dried peaches, bananas, apples, pears, cantaloupes, and even the tart plum chips that I make for him.</p>
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