Use a food dehydrator!
The very ripe pears, apples, plums make the best tasting snacks for kids and adults alike.
A good friend picked bags of pears of the ground in her garden and gave it to us to feed to the chickens.
The happy egg layers we have roaming around the barnyard sure got their share but I kept the best ones for ourselves.
It takes some time to cut off the bad parts, slice them and load the dryer but it's well worth it.
Food dryers is an item often found at Goodwill for a few dollars. Or if you want to, you can build you own. There are many plans on line.
After the pears are dried ( no more "moister"-pockets ) I put them in bags and store in the freezer.
When winter comes around and fruit is expensive and tasteless in the grocery store, you have your own, healthy, preserved fruit waiting. Perfect for a day on the ski slope, the hike, the school lunch...
Warning: Fruit-flies! Don't store the over ripe fruit indoors. You'll have fruit flies hovering in your kitchen and they are hard to get rid off. I'll post my favorite fruit-fly trap in the next post
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