Tomato Leather

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Tomatoes are a featured item in a lot of my soups and stews.  We even love to just eat stewed tomatoes and cornbread for a simple fast and delicious meal.  So naturally, these are getting added in to a lot of the soup packets I'm making for our trip.

Canned tomatoes are fantastically easy to dehydrate diced or stewed.  Crack the can and pour them out on the fruit roll up trays.  If I come across a chunk of tomato that is a bit too big I just smash between my fingers.  Done.

I put one can per tray, stack them up, then forget about them for 24 hours.

This is a tomato air dried flat and crispy.

7 cans of dried tomatoes take up very little space.  

When you nibble on a little bit of dried tomatoes you get a concentrated tomato flavor that tastes amazing.  The dried leather I crunch up into smaller pieces and will reconstitute awesome in soups and spaghetti.