>>334531Get a dehydrator. Dehydrate your own foods, seal them up. Once you get the dehydrator, it's way cheaper than the pre-made stuff (or run your stove at low temperatures for 12 hours straight with the food on a baking sheet, but this prolly doesn't work for people with kids or pets).
Beef Stroganoff is my fave dehydrated meal. Get lean ground beef, some onions, some mushrooms and garlic, some peas, beef broth, Worcestershire sauce, gravy mix, noodles, sour cream powder and butter powder. Cook the beef, rinse it with hot water. Saute the onions, garlic, mushrooms, peas and what. Add the beef and mix with salt, pepper, and beef broth with Worcestershire sauce and gravy, and cook. That's your stroganoff.
Then dehydrate everything for 10-12 hours at 160. Once it's all dehydrated, just seperate it into bags and this is when you add your powdered sour cream and powdered butter. Rehydrate simply by adding a little water, boiling it, and letting it sit for a bit.
You can very cheaply make a crap-ton of it, separated into different bags. Just add the dairy in to the dehydrated mix. If your mix is dehydrated and properly sealed? Good for a month, at least.
The trick is simply adding in the dairy as a powder to the dehydrated meal when you package it. Anything that doesn't have dairy or lots of lard or something? This works just fine for. Other noodle dishes, rice dishes, bean dishes, whatever.
It'll taste better than the dehydrated foods you get in the stores, and it'll be insanely cheaper.
