Dehydrated Potatoes

Dehydrated potatoes are a helpful and important addition to your food stockpile. Potatoes are filling and can be used to bulk up and improve many recipes. You can dehydrate your own potatoes, but if you don’t have the time or don’t want to do that, you have plenty of options to buy since most dehydrated food manufacturers have potatoes for sale.

Provident Pantry

Provident Pantry offers plenty of potato-based products in many different forms and sizes. For example, you can buy hash brown dehydrated potatoes, which make an easy and fun breakfast. Provident Pantry also sells potato flakes, which you can easily make into mashed potatoes. The potato flakes are small, so it only takes a few minutes to rehydrate them. Another product you can buy at Provident Pantry is the diced potato, which is just potatoes cut up into small chunks and dehydrated. Provident Pantry also has sweet potatoes, mashed potato mix and potato soup mix.

One can of dehydrated potatoes is usually between $5 and $10 depending on how it is stored and prepared as well as the size. Sizes vary, with some products holding only 15 ounces while others hold over 50 ounces. Check the size of the can before you buy to make sure you know what you’re getting.

Saratoga Farms

Another popular provider of dehydrated foods is Saratoga Farms. Like Provident Pantry, Saratoga Farms has plenty of dehydrated potatoes available for purchase. The company offers:

• Hashbrown potatoes
  
• Potato cubes
  
• Potato dices
  
• Potato chunks
  
• Potato slices
  
• Mashed potato granules
  
• Sweet potato dices
  

If you’re looking for something in addition to just potatoes, Saratoga Farms also has dehydrated meals that include potatoes. Examples include beef and mashed potatoes, mashed potatoes with broccoli and cheese.

Prices for Saratoga Farms potatoes range from as low as ten dollars to more than thirty dollars per can, depending on the way the potatoes are prepared and the size of the cans. When the potatoes are part of a meal, the cost is on the high end and when they are just potatoes, the cost is lower.

Saratoga Farms also offers what they call a ReadyPack of potatoes, which includes six cans of different types of potatoes. The ReadyPack has two cans of potato cubes, one can of hashbrown potatoes, two cans of mashed potato granules, and one can of potato slices. All six cans together cost $80, which is a significant savings over what you would spend to purchase them separately.

Mountain House

Mountain House has fewer potato-based products than the other two, but still has a few options available. For entrees, they have potatoes and cheddar with broccoli in a pouch, which are 4 ounces and two and a half servings for five dollars. Most of the Mountain House products are pre-made dehydrated meals and they do not often use potatoes.

Where to Buy

The best place to buy dehydrated foods of any kind is online. Most are on sale at Amazon and you can also check out websites like thereadystore.com and other sites that sell backpacking equipment and emergency provisions. If you want to buy in person, you may be able to find dehydrated foods at camping or sporting goods stores since many of these foods are geared towards backpackers. Your options when buying in person will be limited, more expensive, and you may not be able to find exactly what you want.

Dehydrated potatoes are a great addition to any food stockpile. They are easy to cook and even the pickiest eaters like them. Potatoes generally last for a long time normally and they last even longer when they’re dehydrated so they are really great if you want to store them for a long period of time in case you have an emergency.

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