Healthy Snack: Dehydrated Banana Chips

As I have mentioned before, it is a struggle to get Alex to eat anything that is not dairy or a starch. The last time we were in Vermont, his grandmother had made dehydrated banana slices—he ended up loving them. I decided to dust off the old food dehydrator and make a stock pile. We take them with us to the park now—they are a really easy snack and have no sugar added.  

You should wait till the bananas are pretty ripe, but not so ripe they are completely brown. 

I cut the bananas in slices (like you would if you were putting them on a piece of toast) and toss them in a little lemon juice. 

I then put them on the food dehydrator trays and dehydrate for about 12-15 hours.

My food dehydrator can do about 2-3 bunches at a time and I always try to do them in batches.

This is the food dehydrator I have—I love it because you get a lot of dehydrating space, but it isn’t as massive as many of the ones I have seen.