“We’ve LOVED dehydrated sweet potatoes as a treat option for Basil for many reasons. They are completely natural and made from a healthy whole food for starters.
Other benefits include the fact that they actually take him a while to eat (he has to work at them) and they can “regulate” his system in times of need, if you catch our drift…
Sam’s Yams brand sweet potato chews have been our choice so far since they are the straight up sweet potatoes — no added fillers or supplement claims. They also come in large packages with the giant thick chews. All of this being said, these packaged sweet potato treats are pretty expensive — enough so that we get them in limited quantities and every single time we do buy them we ask ourselves why we couldn’t make them
ourselves.
Up until this point, we’ve always thought we couldn’t make them since we don’t yet own a food dehydrator. That being said, we made a batch of homemade fruit leather this past fall in our own oven that called for a slow dehydrating process — so we thought we’d try the same process to try to dehydrate some sweet potatoes…
