Welcome to life in the parsonage. We are a family of 3 living life in small town America. My husband is a pastor and we have one little boy who brings the excitement to our home. He also likes to help type, so pardon the typos. My little one loves fruit leather. We spend a fortune on little tiny boxes of that stuff so I decided that there has got to be a more economical solution. So I borrowed a friends food dehydrator and set out to make some dried fruit that I could turn into some healthy snacks. I may eventually get brave enough to actually try fruit leather. Today I decided to give bananas a try. The grocery store had bags of ripe bananas today for $.39/lb so I bought a bag, brought them home, and started dehdrating.
The starting point. Nice ripe bananas. I tossed them in some lemon juice to keep them from turning brown.
I put them in the dehydrator and let them dry for about 18 hours. Everything I read said to let them dry 8-16 hours but I asked the hubby to unplug them before he went to bed and he forgot so they got left on over night. I was worried they were ruined, but I think the fact our house is so humid saved the day.
The finished product. They are super yummy. I am suprised there are still some left because the hubby said the tasted like candy and was eating them as such.
It was so easy to do I decided to make some more today. I had some blueberries in the freezer that we picked last summer and some apples that needed to be used up so those are drying now. I hope they're as good as the bananas, I'll let you know how they turn out.
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