Dried raw recipes?

[Seeria]

Hello everyone
We're urban homesteaders here (not urban for much longer YaY), so we grow most of our food. Doing raw smoothies and such is proving to really tax a market/store food budget. Where we are right now isn't the right place to be doing indoor, winter gardens, so raw during the winter is a challenge or at least Costly.

While I realize raw fresh is best, has anyone seen dehydrated recipes? Or frozen even?

This garden year I would like to try drying some foods like greens, some fruits, some vegies, then freeze what can't be dried like melons, squash, some vegies.

Anyone know how much "less raw" benefit that would be?

[spicyfull]

While Fresh is always Best..Frozen and dried are just fine. "SPROUTING" is something you can do Anytime of the year. You can use Sprouts and use them to make your Smoothies. Sprouting is also Cheap, you just Soak overnight, rinse often daily and watch them Grow.

My Heart goes out to you because I am So Blessed to live in a place where I can get all of the Fresh Fruits and Vegetables and Very Reasonable prices. Come on to California, we can handle ONE more.

[Seeria]

heh Been there, born there, couldn't stand it. But Thank you for the invite :)
And the information. I'll see what I can find on sprouting, pretty sure the local coop has seeds (I think).