We Rehydrated one of our Freeze Dried Lower-Carb Biscuits N Sausage Gravy meals for Breakfast on our recent road trip - it was from March 2024 - Delicious!
It was a great opportunity to spot-check our bags in our storage bins, rotate some meals, and be sure that our processes are going well.
Before the trip, I went through some of our bins in storage to pick out the meals and snacks that we wanted to bring along this time. Of course Biscuits N Sausage Gravy is one of our favorites so I knew I was digging one of those out! Using our Custom-Built FD Log App on my phone, I was able to quickly look up the Bin Numbers to find the foods I needed for the trip.
I inspected each mylar bag to be sure that the seals were good and also gave a gentle squeeze to test that the contents were crunchy and dry.
When packaging this meal, so far our preferred technique is to first add the FD gravy in the bottom of the bag, and then place the FD Biscuit pieces on top. 
This way we can spoon or pour them out first to one side of our insulated food containers as we divide the meal between the two of us. Next we divide the sausage gravy portions. 
When on the road we bring along our handy Travel Utensils. They have 2 Spoons, 1 Fork, 2 Knives, Chopsticks, a Straw with Cleaning Brush, and even 2 Containers for seasonings!
Here's a photo from a 2024 road trip showing our travel utensil pouches and water heater being used for a past rehydration. At that time we just mixed our FD Biscuits N Sausage Gravy together, but now we like to separate them in the containers when rehydrating. Experiment to see what works best for you!
We use hot 160 F (but not boiling) bottled water to rehydrate. This keeps meats (especially eggs) from overcooking and getting rubbery. 
We have a Portable Water Heater we take traveling for just this purpose. It takes less than two minutes for the water to reach the temp we like. 
We drizzle the hot water over the biscuit pieces and sausage gravy, wait a couple minutes, then drizzle a bit more. A few gentle stirs of the sausage gravy and it’s ready to eat!
FD Tip: Use Filtered or Bottled Water for rehydrating freeze dried foods - tastes better than tap water!
Using Insulated Stainless Steel Food Containers keep everything warm while rehydrating and eating. We don’t stir the biscuit pieces since they are fragile and just scoop them up with spoonfuls of gravy - sooo gooood!
We have 3 different sets of containers that we use for rehydrating various types of meals. We use the round containers for soups and stews. We use the rectangular containers for most other meals. This shape allows more of the water to contact more of the food items for a faster rehydration. Think about it - if we used a cylindrical shaped container to rehydrate this meal, then all of the water would sit at the bottom and we would have to stir several times to make sure everything reached the water. Using rectangular containers distributes the hot water more evenly and makes rehydration more efficient. We bought these particular two containers at our local Walmart.
We buy the sausage gravy from Sam’s Club, and bake our own biscuits using a Lower-carb Mix. Besides the loaded breakfast eggs scramble my Husband makes, Biscuits N Sausage Gravy is one of our Favorite Freeze Dried Meals to enjoy!
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