Dehydration - a fridge free option

I have been dehydrating. After Geoff's Western Arthur trip where he survived on all dehydrated food, we decided to try some dehydrating for our next family camping trip in Tasmania.

The reasoning for this is four-fold: 1) It should basically negate our need for refrigeration/esky 2) We are going to be tight on space as we're not taking a trailer with us this time 3) We would like to minimise the need to regularly stop into shops - more time in the bush that way! 4) Our food prep at camp will be greatly reduced (boiling water isn't so hard) leaving more time for relaxing.

We will be camping for a total of 8 days (2 x 4 days), so I have worked a menu based around repeating meals. My dinner plans at this stage include: Apricot Chicken and rice, Sweet and Sour Mince with rice, Pasta with Veggie Tomato Sauce and perhaps a mexican style meal with refried beans and rice.

When we camp with an esky I usually have lots of veggies fresh on hand for lunches/dinners so one of my challenges is figuring out the best way to get our veggies while we are camping. I want to avoid cans due to the weight and space they take up in packing in a small space. One solution I have is dehydrating vegetable soup (such as pumpkin) that we can have for lunch.

So far I have successfully dehydrated Apricot Chicken, Sweet and Sour Mince, some rice, salmon and pumpkin soup. I will post more on these particular items in the coming days. And let you know how successful the rehydration process was when all is said and done.