This salad is very earthy and you can’t help but feel healthy while you’re eating it. The fruit in this concoction is actually some plums from my in-laws backyard fruit trees that the kids and I picked, dehydrated and then sprinkled with stevia powder. Any kind of dried fruit would work though. Here’s some suggestions: dried figs, cranberries, dates, golden raisins, apricots…you get the idea.
Fruit ‘n Nut Salad
1 head romaine lettuce, chopped
3-4 radishes, thinly sliced
2 green onion, sliced
1/2 cup pine nuts
1/2-1 cup dried fruit
Lemon Poppy Seed Dressing
1/4 cup grapeseed oil
1/4 cup lemon juice
1/8 cup agave nectar
2 tbsp water
1 tsp garlic salt
1 tsp dried parsley, or 1 sprig chopped fine
1 tbsp poppy seeds
Combine dressing ingredients into bowl or bottle and mix thoroughly. Assemble salad and drizzle dressing over top.
* I recently joined in a food storage and emergency preparedness assembly line, in which we were instructed on the potentially life saving advantages of dehydrated prepared meals. We put on our hair nets and gloves and went to work filling mylar bags with ingredients for meals such as wheat skillet dinner (wheat, powdered tomatoes, dried vegetables, and herbs) The metallic bags were then sealed shut with a hot iron after adding in an oxygen absorbing packet.
Dehydrating food to store is not a new theory. Although recently it has made a big come back. This method of preserving food has been a necessary routine for centuries. I thought that the freezer was the best way to get your fruits, vegetables, and meats to last without losing vital nutrients. I am now much more informed. Not only is a dehydrator great for storing food, but also for making some fun recipes such as one’s I found on thehealingjournal.com I may have to do some dehydrated experiments of my own
http://www.livestrong.com/article/254798-health-benefits-of-a-food-dehydrator/
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