Sweet Potato Chips

I remember growing up, my Grandma making apple chips in her dehydrator.  They were so delicious!  A sweet snack that I was way more anxious to eat than regular apples.  I also remember her telling me not to eat too many or I'm end up pooping a lot.  :P  Wise woman!  I'm now telling Avery the same thing about regular apples!  She loves them!  Well as Grandma and Grandpa have been moving and reducing their possessions, I was blessed to get the dehydrator!  I quickly got on Pinterest looking for recipes!  I love chips, so if I can make fruit and Veggie chips and have a healthier alternative to potato chips, I am all about that!  Yesterday I tried my hand at Sweet Potato Chips!  I had a large sweet potato in the fridge that needed used, so I got out my mandolin and sliced it as thin as I could.  I realized this summer I really like sea salt and cracked black pepper potato chips, so that was the flavor combination I went for.  I threw all the slices in a plastic bag with olive oil, salt, and pepper.  I shook the bag until all my slices were coated and seasoned and put them in a single layer in the dehydrator.  Actually, I used two dehydrators, because that's what Grandma brought over and I needed both to use up all my sweet potato slices.  The articles I saw on Pinterest said to dehydrate for 12-24 hours!  I thought to myself, surely that's a typo!  But as I ate chewy sweet potato chips 4 hours, 8 hours, and even 16 hours later, I realized that they were right.  :P  The longer they dehydrated, the crisper, and better they got.  Unfortunately, I didn't mind eating the chewy ones, so I only made it to 21 hours before I'd eaten them all.  ;)  Needless to say, sweet potatoes are on my shopping list for next week!  I really loved that these gave me something healthy to eat, the chewier ones took a little more work to eat, and they kept me from munching on unhealthy snacks throughout the day!  So I'm calling them a win!  :)  Stay tuned for many more dehydrator recipes to come!  Including apple chips!  :D