While most vegetables are prepared by cooking, some such as carrots can be eaten raw after rehydration. Vegetable snacks and chips are, of course, eaten in the dried state. Try rehydrating blueberries in grape juice or apples in apple juice. The same principle applies to fruit leathers. Rehydrate vegetables in vegetable juice like a multi-vegetable mixture juice.
Some vegetable are excellent when rehydrated in milk.
Herbs, vegetables, meats, and fruits can be added to your favorite recipes. When doing this, keep in mind that as a general rule you should allow 30 minutes to 1 hour to rehydrate when added to a soup or a stew. Small pieces of dried food need only 15 to 30 minutes of soaking. Rehydration time can be speeded up by pouring boiling water over any kind of dried food or by using one of the many steamers currently on the market. The amount of water used for cooking should be as near as possible to the amount which the food will take up.