Packed in South Africa
One hundred gramsof cabbage becomesseven hundred and thirty.
Easy Meals Direct SA packs dehydrated meal kits, single vegetables, dry soups and sauces and canned products. Sealed, light, no fridge, and twelve months on the shelf as a minimum.
- 20+
- Years in food preservation
- Dehydration, canning and freezing
- 98%
- GFSI rating at our supplying factory
- Audited by CPG, Kosher and Halal certified
- 12
- Months shelf life, minimum
- Sealed, clean, dry, ambient
- <8%
- Moisture at packing
- 92 to 95 percent of the water removed
(01)Watch it happen
A hundred grams of cabbage. Twenty minutes. Most of a cabbage.
Drying takes out the water, which is almost all of the weight. Put it back and the vegetable comes back. We print the ratio on every dried pack because it is the only number that tells you what you are really buying.
What a 100 g pack returns
(02)Our products
Conveniently packed, sealed, and good for a year.
Dried goods are light to carry and keep without a fridge, which makes them as useful on a hike as they are on a Tuesday night when there is nothing in the house.
Dehydrated Veg Soup Mix
Soup from a cupboard on the night there is nothing in the house.
Meal Pack
A meal and a pudding, in one bag, for a pot and a fire.
Potjie Dehydrated Veg
Cut large, for a pot that cooks slowly.
1 : 5.3Dehydrated Mixed Veg Minced
Minced fine, which is the cut that disappears into a sauce.
1 : 5.9Dehydrated Carrot
Fifteen kilograms of fresh carrot make one kilogram of this.
1 : 4.9Dehydrated Onion
Three or four medium onions in a pack that weighs a hundred grams.
(03)The range
Four things we make, and nothing we do not.
Hot-air dried, 100 g packs
Dehydrated vegetables
One vegetable or one blend to a pack, dried to under eight percent moisture and cut to a known size. No peeling, no slicing, no dicing.
A pot's worth in a packet
Meal packs and soups
One-pot meal packs, stew packs and soup mixes. Everything the pot needs, already measured, so the only fresh thing required is water.
Retort cooked, shelf stable
Canned products
Sealed and sterilised under pressure in a steam retort, which is what lets a tin sit in a cupboard for a year and still be food.
For manufacturers and kitchens
Bulk and trade
The same dehydrated vegetables by the ton, cut to specification, for food manufacturers, processors and kitchens cooking for a crowd.
(04)Why dried
The vegetables you did not throw away.
A year, not a week
Sealed and kept cool and dry, it is still food in twelve months. A bag of potatoes from the shop gives you a few days.
A seventh of the weight
Drying takes the water out, which is most of what you were carrying. Seven tons of onions dry down to one.
No fridge, no freezer
Nothing in the range needs cold storage, which matters when the power is off and matters more when you are nowhere near a plug.
The goodness stays
Drying costs a little nutritional value and almost none of the taste. Tested, not assumed.
(05)Three ways, all correct
You do not have to soak it.
Cold water, twenty minutes
Cover it and leave it. It swells back on its own, then pour the water off and cook as you normally would.
Hot water, ten minutes
Same result, half the wait. Useful when supper is already late.
Or skip it entirely
Put it straight in the pot with everything else and let the dish do the work. This is how George cooks it at home.
(06)Questions
The ones we get at every market.
It depends on the vegetable. Cabbage is about one to seven point three, so a hundred gram pack comes back as roughly seven hundred and thirty grams. We print the ratio on every dried product because it is the only number that tells you what you are actually buying.
Twelve months minimum, sealed, in a cool dry cupboard out of the sun. Canned products keep without refrigeration for the same reason: they are pressure cooked in a retort before they leave us.
Yes. Drying costs a little nutritional value and very little flavour. The quickest way to find out is to put a hundred grams in cold water and watch it for twenty minutes, which is what we do at markets.
No. Cold water for twenty minutes, hot water for ten, or straight into the pot with everything else. All three work.
It is good for camping because it is light and keeps. It is used far more often in ordinary kitchens, on the days when there are no fresh vegetables in the house and nobody is going to the shop.
Yes. There are separate price lists for canned goods, dried goods and mixes and sauces, and bulk pricing improves with volume. Ask and we will send the list that fits what you are buying.
Put a hundred grams in water and see for yourself.
Send us a message and we will tell you what we have, what it costs, and when we are next at a market near you.