Making Your Own Food

[clousehouse]

I'm looking into making my own dried foods for my crab babies. Can anyone tell me how to dry out egg shells, so that they dont go bad and i can save them to make mixes? or how to dry out rose petals and stuff. Do i need a dehydrator or will my oven work? Any input would be amazing. Thank You

[curlysister]

In summer, I dried a bunch of stuff on the dash of my Jeep! I used a shallow cardboard box (like from a flat of canned cat food) on the front dash, in the hot sun. I dried various kinds of flowers (marigolds, roses, petunias, lilacs, day lillies, thistles, clover, etc), leaves (from trees/ bushes as well as squash, dandilions, clover, etc), kale, and swiss chard.
I have also dried stuff in the oven - I just put it on a cookie sheet and put it in the oven when I was done baking something (oven off). I checked on it every 10mins til it was all dried how I wanted.
As for eggshells, when I hard cook my eggs, I actually cook them in the oven. A dozen eggs in a muffin tin at 325 for 29 minutes. Then when I peel the eggs, I put the shells in baggie in the freezer.

[blackberry75]

I use my oven or a solar oven in the summer. I put it on the lowest temp and keep an eye on whatever is in there. Flowers, leaves, fruit/veg, eggshells, etc.

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