Product Highlight: How do you like your potatoes?

Potatoes are such a great food:.  There are so many ways to use them!   There are also many ways to add potatoes to your food storage, or home store.  In fact, there are three ways.  Today, I'm going to highlight these three types of potatoes so you know just what the differences are and can be sure to add what you really want to your home store.

The three different types are (1) Freeze Dried Potato Dices, (2) Dehydrated Potato Chunks, and (3) Potato Beads.

Freeze Dried Potato Dices:
Potato Dices are real 100% potatoes that have been pre-cooked and then freeze dried and have a 25 year shelf life.  The only difference between these potatoes and fresh is that they don't have any water.  If you hydrate them, they will work just like potato dices you froze and then defrosted.  They have no additives or preservatives.  Nothing but potatoes here!  When dry, you can very easily crush them to a powder.  That powder works wonders as a thickener in soups, stews and gravies.  They hydrate very quickly and can be used in soups, breakfast casseroles or as hash browns.  They also make very tasty mashed potatoes: not like instant mashed potatoes, these taste just like fresh!  And they save time: no more washing and peeling and dicing.  Don't you wish you had some for Thanksgiving?  The only thing these potatoes can't really do is give you chunks in soup, potato salad etc.  They hydrate very quickly, and if you cook them too long, they just become extremely soft. These are my favorite potatoes.


Dehydrated Potato Chunks

Potato Chunks are 100% real potatoes that have been dehydrated and have a 25 year shelf life.  They are not as similar to fresh potatoes as the freeze dried dices b/c heat was applied to the chunks to remove the water and that changes their structure a bit (similar to how a grape is changed to a raisin).  They are very hard and cannot be broken with with your hand or crushed to a powder.  However, they are just potatoes: no additives or preservative here either!  And still no washing or pealing or dicing! They take 20-25 minutes to hydrate in boiling water and even then, they are still a bit chewy.  They work well in potato soups when you want a chunkier potato (like a chowder).  They also work well in potato salads.


Potato Beads
Potato Beads are not 100% real potatoes.  They have a 8 year shelf life. While the main ingredient is dehydrated potatoes, they also contain salt, oil, artificial colors and flavors and other preservatives.  They can easily be crushed to a powder.  They hydrate very quickly and are meant to be used as a thickener in soups & stews or as quick, flavorful mashed potatoes.  You can make tasty mashed potatoes in just 2 minutes with these beads. 


I was going to take pictures of the actual potatoes, but realized late last night that I'm out of the chunks.  I thought I could still post the other two, but the point really is for you to see the differences between them all.  So, if you'd like to see pictures of the actual potatoes (instead of just the cans), you can visit Shelf Reliance Sisters where she has great pictures of all three!

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