40 Apples a day

I realized last night that I am processing at least 40 apples a day. I think this should continue through next week since I still have 2 large bins to get through.

The picture on the left is yesterdays apple butter. I like it even though it was oven baked for about 6 hours. I finally got around to canning it at 11:00 last night! The recipe, "Marion's Apple Butter" is from Preserving the Harvest by Carol Costenbader.

I am also making dehydrated apple rings for the kids snacks. I can fit about 8 apples at a time in my dehydrator. It takes about all day to dehydrate them completely. The picture below is the batch Daughter helped me get going yesterday afternoon. I had to turn them off when I went to bed, so they are finishing up right now!

Dehydrated Apple Slices

This was a super simple school snack.

All you need is sliced cored apples
and a dehydrator.

Mine held 8 apples worth.
That's what's in the jar.

And a day at home.

This does take a while and,
since I don't like to leave home with anything left on,

I would recommend doing this while you are cleaning the house.

Its a super simple, healthy and YUMMY school snack.

Baby tried to run away with the jar!