my first attempts with my food dehydrator

I bought a Mr. Coffee "The Food Dehydrator" model FD5 awhile back for about 7$ at the Goodwill and tried it out a few weeks ago. The motor was seized so I took it apart and cleaned and lubricated. It was a fairly simple job to do this. It is a clean machine that looks almost unused. I tried it out on some celery leaves and it worked great.

This week I ran into some tomatoes on the reduced rack, 99 cents for about 2 kilos, and lots of peppers so I decided to take the plunge. It took a couple of days of drying but I ended up with a very small bag of dried green peppers which were about 25 cents each, and about 80 grams of dried tomatoes.

I have now to find recipes for sun dried tomatoes.

I use a mandolin slicer and it would be next to impossible to get the consistent slices of tomatoes without this device. It takes no time at all to slice a tomato into almost perfect slices.

I think I will try this again if I run across surplus veggies, the time involved is not that great, other than the waiting, and the stored veggies should last awhile in storage.

Just what I need, a portable shopping cart washer

http://gadgets.boingboing.net/2008/11/12/however-do-you-cope.html

I am too lazy to post the picture so you can go to the link to take a look. It is a portable cabinet on wheels like a mini car wash for those skuzzy shopping carts that have diaper residue in the kiddies' seat and have crushed produce and meat juices in the main part that have been marinating in the sun, that you have to put your food into. I wonder if they have a model that has larger wheels that I can tow behind my car?

I have heard that the handle of shopping carts are dirtier than a toilet seat.

They also have a similar system for dogs. Any dog I know would freek out being loaded into one of these things.
http://www.medcoequipment.com/dog-washers.html