Ready Made Dehydrated Proteins

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Ready Made Dehydrated Proteins

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Does anyone have any experience with dehydrated beef or chicken such as https://www.amazon.com/Mountain-House-G ... B000M7V1EA?

I'm looking to move away from the ready made dinners, and create my own meals using the above, and other dehydrated veggies such as this: https://www.amazon.com/Harmony-House-Fo ... ouse+foods

Does anyone have any experience with doing this? Any feedback/experience would be most welcome.
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I've used chicken from Honeyville Farms with good results. I just put together some meals last night using it; chicken and stuffing and cheesy chicken and broccoli.
http://shop.honeyville.com/products/fre ... eats.html/
One nice thing is that they have smaller cans also, when they're in stock.
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I have the Mtn House Ground Beef and add it to meals. The calorie density is great (6.3 Cal/gm). The taste is decent, but it does remain slightly chewy after the 10 min steeping typical for Mtn House meals.
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I dehydrate turkey or ground beef into gravel. No MSG in my meals. Canned chicken dehydrates and then comes back resembling chicken, just throwing uncooked chicken in a dehydrator doesn't work.

Tossing a can of chili in a tray and dehydrating works. Lentil based dishes dehydrate well.

Dehydrated a tuna casserole - brings all the cats in for miles... works okay.

Anything dehydrated at home should be eaten within a few weeks or frozen, by the way. It doesn't remove all the moisture and things can go moldy. But it does the trick when drying leftovers the week before a trip.
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I use the freeze dried chicken from Mountain House all the time. Mix it with dehydrated refries and wrap in a burrito and your good to go.
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Okay great. Was thinking of making chicken burritos with dehydrated refried beans, fritos, tortilla, and minute rice.

Skurka has some decent recipes on his site which I was thinking of adding chicken to.

Thanks for the input, I think I will try the honeyville.
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If you get a dehydrator you can cut out the middle man.
http://highsierratopix.com/community/vi ... 26&t=14097
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