I don't know why I hadn't thought of it sooner, but I've been dehydrating vegetables to take with me on the kayak. My awesome housemate Rachel was pleased the dehydrator was getting some use, and I was pretty suprised how much dehydrating the veggies saves space and weight. I mean, duh, but the difference in volume and weight of fresh versus dried veggies was greater than I'd imagined it would be. Now I can spice up my noodle dishes with mushrooms, leeks, carrots, peppers, onions.
An entire dehydrator full of fresh mushrooms yields just one quart-sized baggie of dried mushrooms. Sweet!
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