Hi all, Thanks for the responses about dehydrators. (Chad and I are still waiting for some more advice on dehydrated soups/meals!)(I think Rael is probably right... dehydrate the things you need and throw them together, maybe pre-cook things like beans and noodles.) Question: I think I've read of a home-made dehydrator: -make flat-ish boxes with plywood sides, screen/hardware mesh bottoms, no top. -stack them on top of eachother -for the bottom one, have holes in the sides, and a lightbulb -I think the idea is that the bulb heats the air, which flows up through your stacked boxes (with fruit on the mesh), and fresh air comes in through the bottom holes Anyone tried something like this? Sounds like it could be made fairly inexpensively - and be simple to fix if anything goes wrong. Thanks again, Keegan _________________________________________________________________ Chat with friends online, try MSN Messenger: http://messenger.msn.com