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This made wonder about chocolate covered cherry pie balls.

I use frozen wild blueberries for my pies. They have that blueberry flavor that is lacking in most regular frozen blueberries. Wymans is the brand and on their website they tell you how and why to use the frozen wild blueberries to get that perfect flavor.

May want to try blueberry pie filling or something along those lines. Looks good as always!

LorAnn oils has a blueberry flavor extract. loved the video now I have to convert it to gluten free and go find the strawberry one lol. thanks John love your work.

Maybe if you picked the blueberries, maybe more flavor?

Had the same problem trying to flavor my granola with blueberry flavoring. The wife says they sell blueberry oil for candy making. Try LorAnn Oil Super Strength. Just got done doing a 10 lb load of pineapple for the grand daughter. She loves her fruit.

John do u think it would work ok if you blended 3/4 blueberry and 1/4 gramcrackers together

Amazon has blueberry extract

I think my kids would enjoy making these. You did great!!! Thanks for sharing, John. I appreciate all of your efforts more than I could ever say.

Im sure you can make blueberry extract with vodka.😉🌻

Love the lite blue sugar on top....beautiful 🌻

John, you could simmer the blueberries down until they turn into a paste. That will make the flavor stronger and much more easier to pour. Just a thought, my friend! Mike

Just curious - where in the country do you live? (We live in the humidity capital - Florida).

Just made these, there great will definitely be doing again

Have u done rice crispy treats or make ur own cereal marshmallow treats? That might be a good series

What is the shelf life on this?

John, I admit, I did laugh a bit about freeze-drying Hamburger Helper. Growing up, I sure heard about it enough, saw the ads, but never had it. My mother was a great cook, did most things from scratch, and things like that were just an unneeded expense in a household that avoided expenses. Once on my own, I generally ate the same way, buying ingredients instead of prepared foods. But if you like it, and it works for you, great! I know how much you like getting things on special, saving money. So do I. As for retired at 62, good for you. I'm about to turn 60, have been retired for a while now, as is my wife who's just a few months younger than I am. I see too many people spend everything they make (and then some in many cases), staying permanently in debt and forced to work. We lived way under our means, which helped us in two ways. We saved money for retirement, of course, but we also accustomed ourselves to a less lavish lifestyle than most people in our income range. I wish more people would understand just how powerful that double-benefit of frugal living really is.

Maybe a ziploc bag would work well to fill the molds. Fill the bag, and then when you're ready cut the end. Throw away and use another when you need to fill more. Cheap and maybe would work.

I retired at 62 I'm mow 72. Everyday is a Saturday. Enjoy. Keep up the recipes. I have made almost all of your recipes

How many hours did it take in the freeze dryer?

How many hours did it take in the freeze dryer?

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John, I am making these today. Using blended cherry pie filling, then capping with some pebbles of freeze dried Ittibitz ice cream and graham cracker crumbs... They are in the freezer now.. then onto the freeze dryer....

The strawberry balls look delicious

Congratulations on retirement, John!!!! Going to try this one myself. Thanks for sharing!! Wish you the best.

John, Why don't you drain the juice from the mushrooms and us that as part of your liquid (water) measure? Enhance the flavor that way.

OMG, I LOVE THIS RECIPE!!!

Yes let’s see more flavors

Hey John, If you stir once, then just move the pouch up and down, the noodle won’t dissolve. This is also the method we’ve always used for gluten free pasta as well. 😃 Happy Retirement!

Nice getting things on sale.. and Freeze Drying it up.. I do the same. Good find.

Congratulations on the retirement. If you were using 80% beef, would you drain and rinse the hamburger? Just a note, when freeze drying hamburger, I have rinsed with broth made from bouillon. I think that helps retain some flavor. But I am wondering if I need to rinse when putting in a recipe. Thanks!!

I love hamburger helper beef stroganoff, I’m going to FD some for my own dinners, as my wife doesn’t care for it

Great idea. Like it. I’ve freeze dried many a box of potatoes au gratin which has worked out great. I also like how realistic your meal portions are. Great video

Congratulations on retirement!

did I hear you say you retired. well, just congratulations.. I also do some hamburger helper but mine mostly consist of leftovers so far. I take all my leftovers from supper and bag them up, then when I get enough of whatever I fd them as single portions. I hope to do larger batches. my son in law loves hamburger helper.

Price chopper? Are you in upstate Ny?

now im hungery.

you are far more expr than I, but why take chances vacuum sealing creating pin holes or bigger ?

Did the noodles hold up better in the beef pasta?

Great video my friend A side of mashed potatoes and salad will make that a super delicious meal God bless you my friend Keep your videos coming🙏♥️🙏

I freeze dry the beef pasta and it works beautifully.

Yep, great minds do think alike. It was Stroganoff and Beef Pasta that I had made and FD’d. I remember adding shredded cheese to something, but I had several boxes of hamburger helper and didn’t FD everything. With a Small FD, I can only get 2 pounds per tray and didn’t have the room you do. I cooked something up separately, but can’t recall what I added cheese to. I wish I had thought about adding mushrooms to the Stroganoff, that sounds good and it wasn’t until I read up on it, that I found out mushrooms is what most of it has (often without noodles). I also wish I had a Price Chopper near me, it seems they have the good stuff on sale quite a bit. Walmart is the cheapest place near me, everywhere else is too expensive. Huh, you’re older than me! I figured with all the talk about going to work in previous videos that I was the older one. I’m retired too, but that’s because I’m disabled and have been on Social Security Disability since 2019. Welcome to retirement! Have you run into the “problem” of trying to figure out when you ever found the time to go to work yet? 🤣

I really wish I had one! This is great.

I know this video is 6-7 months old, and you may have already figured this out.. I noticed the turkey, gravy, potatoes all crumbled as you were transferring them to Mylar bags.. in the future I suggest using a spatula-to transfer the food. If nothing else it could save a little time. It’s so amazing how you remember what you said earlier in the videos! Like taking one potato square from each tray. I know it’s usually a couple 2 or 3 days later between traying, freezing, freeze-drying and recording the bag process. Recently I made some hamburger helper meals (cause I’m lazy and don’t put as much efforts into my MRE’s as you do) and freeze dried them. I lost track of one of the bags and didn’t heat seal it let alone put an O2 absorber in it. A couple days later I found it abd decided I would taste test it. I followed your directions with rehydrating, put hot (boiling) water in the bag, sealed it for 2 minutes…opened and stirred then closing for another 2 minutes… opened and stirred once more and began eating it. It was perfect! Just as fresh as when I originally cooked it. You are amazing good sir!

John, Soooo happy to see you back :)

I wish I had read/watched this video BEFORE I tried freeze drying my homemade macaroni salad. I used Duke's mayo because it's sugar free. Well, after about 20 hours I happened to be walking past my freeze dryer and saw that my macaroni salad was 'boiling.' I'm sure it wasn't really boiling, but that's what it looked like. What a mess! It was all over the inside of my machine. I should have thought this one through before attempting it because I have made real mayonnaise before and I know it's almost all oil. Let my failure be a lesson to all of you. Use John's recipe instead!!

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what temperature was that water as you stated it can not be boiling but as seen in the video it is "steaming". Please advise. TIA