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hey back for another day in the life of
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a freeze-dried business owner my name is
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David I run a freeze-dried business in
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Idaho and for those of you who are new
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um I started this channel just to
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document how to run a freeze-dried
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business what are some things that
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people are currently doing myself
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included that can make things easier for
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you well tonight I day in the life I am
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filling up gas in my car
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uh price of gas right now in Boise Idaho
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is about 3.93 for unleaded so
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uh it's definitely creeping back up
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there for the summer time tonight I'm
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going to a Bulk Foods grocery store
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called WinCo and WinCo Foods is pretty
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well known around in this area and uh
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they do sell a lot of bulk candy they
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really great prices on produce
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and you know you wouldn't think that
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that gas stations uh he wouldn't think
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that some grocery stores
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you know uh pick out really high quality
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produce but actually WinCo from what I
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found out is they actually do purchase a
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lot of their fruit and produce veggies
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all of that uh very selectively and they
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have some of the most strictest
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processes of getting the best types of
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produce uh available and so that's why I
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go there because I found that out
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because I was actually going to a a
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uh produce distributor called grasmic
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produce and a couple other ones and they
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are the ones who actually told me that
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they distribute to them and give them
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that produce and they usually give a lot
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of stuff back to them because that
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doesn't meet their standards so I really
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feel confident with buying my fruit
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there and vegetables that I've started
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to do as well as I get some ice cream
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there ice cream sandwiches to do for my
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freeze-dried business as well as some of
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the candy so we're going to go to that
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store and I'll document a little bit
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all right we are here at WinCo Foods now
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this is like the mecca for most people
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who want to save money because this
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store doesn't allow you to pay via
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because they only take debit and
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basically you don't get any type of
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charges from the credit card companies
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so they actually discount a lot of
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prices not just from produce and things
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so they actually don't really have to
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mark up the prices that much to cover
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those credit card fees so
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they use debit cards here a lot of
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people shop here I do as well for the
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family both for the business as well
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all right so as you can see right down
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here 98 cents per pound for strawberries
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very much in season definitely taking
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advantage of this all the time now I do
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have various different fruits that I
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sell my freeze-dried business I sell
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apples strawberries raspberries
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blueberries and occasionally I'll do
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one-offs like peaches things like that
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now for strawberries I'm definitely
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loading up I'm using some of those
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bigger 15 gallon buckets I've mentioned
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those before I'll put a link in the
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description here but those are the ones
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that I store the fruit in and I put some
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desiccant packets in there just to keep
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it dry and keep the moisture out so if
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you want to take a look at that but
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strawberries for 98 cents per pound heck
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of a deal can definitely make great
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margins on this right now now I'm not
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here to buy the strawberries I'm here to
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buy specifically ice cream sandwiches
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and buy some raspberries raspberries are
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not in season because
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they're just not right now and I I need
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some raspberries for some sampling that
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I'm doing for a buying event
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I'm here coming up next week so I just
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need to get more of uh what I sell so
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that I can have future buys from some of
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these vendors that I'm going to have at
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the event for this coming quarter maybe
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even next year so it's a big event for
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me so I'm trying to just load up on
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different varieties of fruits to give
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them a taste of different things so
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um I don't even know if they really
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actually have raspberries here which I
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don't really see so I might have to end
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up going to Albertsons or something like
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that to get the raspberries let's go
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ahead and take it some take a look at
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just to give you an idea of what I'm
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taking a look at so let's take a look at
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some other prices of fruits and I'll
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give you some perspective on what I
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think are some good buys and what I
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so blueberries right here for five
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dollars five dollars for a
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five dollars for an 18 ounce of
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blueberries that's actually not that
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great of a deal usually if they're in
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season or if there's a sale I can
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usually get those for
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three dollars at the least amount up to
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about four dollars so I really kind of
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ballparked that for three to four
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dollars so I won't buy those blueberries
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unless I absolutely need to for that
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five dollar price 298 four peaches
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and 398 for apricots definitely could
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save almost a dollar less so I don't
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think that that's the greatest Price
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I hope this is helpful it's kind of the
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things that I I go into WinCo for
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um I'm just looking for the the best
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deals and uh when I do see a good deal
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that I snatch it up and I do it in the
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freeze dryer and I think most of you who
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have a free stripe business you're doing
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the same thing you know you're looking
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for a good price if there's a good price
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then you kind of switch in terms of what
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you're going to put in the freeze dryer
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58 cents for bananas per pound actually
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a very good deal I really like doing
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bananas now just because they are really
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cheap to do also you don't have to do as
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much washing and sanitation for these
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bananas because the peel protects them
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from those pesticides and so I really
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like putting them in combination with
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strawberries as well as just alone
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all right pineapple 224 each per
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pineapple definitely a a decent deal
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I've seen it at a dollar ninety eight
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before and uh also these are extremely
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um as you can see these pineapples are
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actually pretty ripe so I I probably
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wouldn't lean on these unless I'm
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planning on doing them right away
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that way I have plenty of time to cut
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them so if I was going to do pineapple I
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would be planning on doing it either
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tomorrow or the next day based on how
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ripe those are but if I wasn't then I
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would wait until they are a little bit
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more green and that way I have plenty of
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time to store them on the counter or
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things like that and then eventually
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prep them with the pineapple slicer
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now that's for the produce right now so
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I wasn't in WinCo to to buy the the
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produce so what we're gonna go is we're
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gonna go I'm gonna show you the candy
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section for bulk candy and this is
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something that you can take advantage of
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if you have a WinCo or if you have some
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type of bulk foods distributor grocery
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store now take a look at all this candy
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now now everything freeze dries if
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you've never really been a part of a
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freeze drying group on Facebook I'd
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highly suggest you just kind of search
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for freeze dried freeze-dried candy
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makers is a good one but basically a lot
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of people have done freeze drying candy
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they've tested different things I'm not
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the first person to do it I'm just
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probably the first person to document a
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little bit more of the videos and things
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like that I feel like because that's why
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I'm doing this channel but overall there
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are some things that you can actually
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freeze right here that's going to go
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over those right now AirHeads definitely
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um now we got the little Honeys now they
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changed the wrapper for bit of Honeys
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right here see that now it's not the
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yellow and the uh blue it's this
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different type of wrapper but bit of
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Honeys actually do freeze very well
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I did a lemon head video before lemon
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heads do freeze dry well they see the
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larger kinds so you're going to have to
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kind of adjust the temperatures for that
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peach rings are so thick on the freeze
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dryer and I know a lot of you have
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wanted me to do peach rings I've done
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them before I've gotten them to expand
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to Triple their size they are just so
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inconsistent that I just don't want to
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do it I don't want to buy them in bulk
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anymore and waste the product because I
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found that either the bottom or the top
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shelf just don't freeze dry off the
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Harvest Right freeze dryer and they
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don't pop and also they just it's really
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hard to kind of make sure that all of
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them are crunchy and not chewy and
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that's just why I don't do the peach
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rings but they do have peach rings here
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for nine dollars and 48 cents and
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basically about a three to five pound
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bag I believe so this is bulk the Bulk
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Foods now there's also some other things
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that I buy Here occasionally
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I also buy some of my candies at Costco
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I buy the high shoes at Costco and also
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Skittles most of you are probably by
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that as well and as well as Sam's Club
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now you can see here in these bulk bins
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we've got peach rings we've got the
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watermelon heat trains
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all right we're at the ice cream
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sandwiches now I've done an ice cream
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sandwich video for freeze drying ice
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cream sandwiches you can check out that
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video but I buy the polar Treats Ice
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and I buy the Neapolitan and they come
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in 12 ice cream bar sandwiches and what
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I do is I buy eight of them because
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eight of them actually fit on all five
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trays the Harvest Right large freeze
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so when I buy all of my ice cream
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sandwiches I buy this hat this box has
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and so all by eight Ice Cream Sandwich
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boxes and they have 12 bars in each and
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basically it's about one and a half
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boxes goes onto one tray so I've got
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that all figured out so I don't have to
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over buy anything now that's what I came
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to buy usually I'm actually stocking up
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a lot more on a grocery run I'm usually
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getting either ice cream a lot of
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different produce even candy on these
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runs but I just wanted to stick with the
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ice cream sandwiches for tonight because
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I've got to get them in the freeze dryer
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for an order coming up here really soon
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so that's a day in the life of a
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freeze-dried business owner on a grocery
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on a Saturday night and so we're gonna
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go check out for this particular segment
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but for now uh we'll close out at the
