Freeze Dried Fruit

Freeze Dried Fruit are a Delicious Form of Disaster Preparedness and a Great Source of Energy on Hikes and Campouts

Freeze dried fruit can be a delicious snack, and since it keeps a long time, it's great to store for emergencies.

And it makes a perfect food to take along when you go outdoors -- camping, hiking, mountain climbing, fishing, hunting, white water rafting, backpacking, canoeing, and even just on a picnic at your local park.

Make Freeze Dried Fruit an Essential Part of Your Home Food Storage

You can use a dehydrator to dry out your own fruits that you either raised in your garden or bought from a farmer's market, highway stand or at the supermarket. Or from a health food store or whole foods store that sells organic produce. You can also find otherwise rare and exotic (in America) produce at Asian food stores. This eliminates the food additives and preservatives and food dyes that may be added.

Stores are full of dried fruit snacks because it's so sweet and nutritious. Raisins, prunes, dried apples, apricots and many more. In Asia I've bought snack packages of dried mango, banana chips and papaya and those're really good tasting.

Or you can buy prepackaged dried fruit in bulk online.

Honeyville makes and sells dried fruits you don't normally see: strawberries, blueberries, apples, blackberries, peaches and mangos, as well as bananas and apricots. A few cases of their products would go well with your freeze dried food for disaster preparedness or for hiking food.

Brothers All Natural has a line of dried fruit as part of their branding as the number one freeze-dried snack brand in the world. Their fruit crisps come in Fuji Apple, Asian Pear, Strawberry-Banana, White and Yellow Peach, Pineapple, Strawberry and Banana.

They've also partnered with Disney to come up with lines of fruit crisps for children: Clubhouse Pineapple, Mickey Mouse Apple, Donald Duck Pear, Goofy Strawberry-Banana, Pluto Peach, Hannah Montana Apple, Hannah Montana Pear, Hannah Montana Peach, Hannah Montana Strawberry-Banana, and Hannah Montana Variety.

Just Tomatoes carries a large line of dried fruit snacks. Some of them are made from conventional fruit, some from organically grown fruit.

Freeze Dried Fruit Flavors Include:

Just Apples, Just Apricots, Organic Just Gone Bananas, Organic Just Blueberries, Just Blackberries, Organic Just Blueberries, Just Cherries, Just Cranberries, Organic Just Cherries, Just Fruit Munchies, Organic Just Fruit Munchies, Just Fruit Salad (Pear, Apple, Peach, Banana, Strawberry and Red Grapes), Just Fruit Snacks, Just Grapes, Just Mango, Organic Just Mango, Organic Just Peaches, Just Peaches, Just Persimmon, Just Pineapple, Just Pomegranate, Just Raisins, Just Raspberries, Organic Just Raspberries, Just Strawberries, Organic Just Strawberries, Just Strawberries 'n Bananas, and Just Tropical Treats.

Some prominent emergency food and backpacking supply companies don't really carry dried fruit per se, since their business is in either giving outdoors people total meals or supply emergency dehydrated food for disaster kits or 72 hour kits. This includes Mountain House Foods and Food Insurance.

Crispy Green makes FruitziO, a line of fruit treats in resealable pouches with only 100 calories per pouch. You can order FruitziO Apples and Strawberries and FruitziO Strawberries. Both come with added cane sugar. This line is obviously aimed at producing snacks for children.

Serious campers and backpackers who want freeze dried camping foods will want to stick with the more standard packaging of freeze dried fruit. People who want to stock up on survival food will find large packaging that's sealed until needed better fits their needs.

Next: Freeze Dried Meals -- store many meals of freeze dried foods.