Puckster wrote on Sep 2^nd, 2013 at 6:16pm:

So I should dehydrate the meat separately, but cook the chili sauce then dehydrate it?

Yes, fry up the ground beef + bread crumbs and dehydrate it. Depending on how you make your chili, you can either dehydrate the sauce and add it to the ground beef "gravel", or dehydrate the sauce ingredients separately (bell peppers, tomatoes, cooked beans) and add them to the beef.

Make sure you read the directions for dehydrating ground beef first! If you don't start with ultra lean ground beef (<5% fat), you have to do some extra work to remove all the fat.

The backpacking chef chili recipe isn't bad:
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