Gimp_of_01 should chime in sometime soon, cuz his wife dehydrates chilis, stews, and casseroles for us.  So damn good that we don't eat freeze-dried dinners any more (but we bring one along as a just-in-case-we're-laid-over dinner.)

Sometimes the bigger chunks of meat or beans take a bit of sitting time to rehydrate to remove the crunch.  We usually rehydrate by double sealing it in a one-zip bag in the AM and letting it sit thru the day.  On travel day dinners we boil up water before adding it to speed up rehydration.

She makes jerky too - once she packed along fish jerky.  Why send fish jerky when we're eating it fresh from the lake?  I dunno...Gimp passed the stuff around, threatening that if we ended up bringing it back his wife might lose her zeal to dehydrate the real yummy stuff.  It didn't work, in many dimensions.