Drunken Dried Fruit Fun

Everyone knows that eating fruit is one of the best things you can do for your body. Everyone also knows that it can be a total pain in the ass. :) Have you seen the new product called "Fruit 2 Day"  http://www.fruit2day.com/
Its essentially a fruit cocktail in a bottle with a tad more liquid. You can't quite drink it, you can't chew it. Its just a bizarre situation in your mouth IMHO.

My solution to more fruit around our household is the much beloved dehydrator to the rescue! For this round, I used 3 different types of fruit. My favorite - pineapple rings, mango slices and red grapefruit. * A disclaimer - none of the fruit I used was local and it was probably dripping in high fructose corn syrup but I wanted it very sweet and thought that was the best way to try it first. Once fruit becomes more available at the market, I will go the pure natural route.

I dried these at about 180 degrees for 14 hours.

The Grapefruit probably could have used another hour or so.

But they were tasty tasty tasty!!

In fact, my husband litereally got 1 strip of mango right after they were dried and I ate the entire rest of the jar in 1 day.

They fit nicely into jars and are ready for whenever we are!

** As a fun side project - I added about 6 dehydrated pineapples to 8 oz of local Tito's vodka to make some pineapple infused vodka! We let it set about 2 weeks and then tried it. The shot was amazing with strong hints of pineapple and then if you eat the fruit itself, its like taking a shot. How exciting! Fun with fruit!!