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  1. Hi there from Minnesota. I was planning to dry cranberries and mix it with dried lemon peel, dried lemon grass and dried ginger to make my own detox natural homemade tea.
    I love my store bought herbal tea. I drink tea three times everyday, but just a thought maybe it is much better to make your own tea because you know what’s in it.

  2. My friend and I make home made Turkey Pot Pies and use both stuffing and cranberries (my idea) in them. No one wants mushy stuffing, so we bake stuffing balls (her idea) to get them a little crispy on the outside before tossing them last into the filling just before stuffing the pies. It’s like Turkey dinner in a pie and it’s heavenly!

  3. I keep various dried fruits on hand just to add sometimes to peanut/nut/seed butter on bananas or apples or rice cakes or just added to a spoonful of such butters, and sometimes just mixed with nuts/seeds etc. They last a long time for me because I only feel like eating them occasionally.

    But if something has too much sugar (naturally or because juice is added, as for dried cranberries) – another solution is to just eat less of it and less often. The bag of dried cranberries (sweetened with juice) claims 40 grams is a serving (1/3 cup). Ha ha ha ha ha. Try single digits in grams as a serving. This is why my little digital kitchen scale is so handy even though I’m kitchen-challenged and eat very simply. If I just want 4 grams of something, I can have that. Freedom!

  4. Since being diagnosed with kidney failure, I have used a lot of cranberries, red grapes (etc from Anthony William) which has my GFR #s slowly rising (I believe). Thanks for these recipes and ideas for sugarless dried. Maybe a little cane sugar, the darkest demerara brown sugar or apples like you suggest.

  5. Do the cranberries need to soak in the maple syrup for four hours, as detailed in your story, or do they just get a quick coating, and then into the dehydrator? Do they turn out differently?
    Thanks for your time.

  6. thanks so much for this recipe I can not wait to dry some fresh farmers market cranberries, sour foods are good for us and I believe cranberries can encourage us to eat a little sour. . . just pair them with something sweeter like apples as you suggest. . .I plan to add the dried cranberries to an American Indian recipe for pumpkin bread…in place of raisins.

  7. Want to make dried cranberries with dehydrater. Cannot find instructions how to sweeten with apple sauce or juice. Also they are frozen. I do want some sugar but a healthy way

  8. These are sooooooo tasty and easy. I’ve tried all kinds of different ways to preserve cranberries, this is by far the best way to me. God Bless

  9. toss in a salad for a little bit of zip along with a good cheese like feta :-) I am going to dehydrate some today. Thank you for the information. Found you via google search “how to dehydrate fresh cranberries”.

  10. Made these using 6 cups of cranberries with 1/2 cup maple syrup. Should have thought about the slats in my dehydrator first, because they are too wide and had a lot fall through! Took a total of 11 hours. Very happy with the results; going to bake me some orange-cranberry muffins!

  11. Hi Meghan:

    Thank you for the recipe. Can you please tell me how you store these; as freezing them is not appealing to me?