The way literally to have fruit any time you want it is to make dry fruit a multi-faceted part of your life. There are so many different kinds of dried fruits and endless ways you can learn to take advantage of this gift of nature. Some examples of how to be flexible are: You can keep this food in your panty and combine it with other food for all sorts of mixtures and recipes from dry fruit in both cold and hot cereals to ingredients in cakes and breads. You can really plan for the long term period of emergency or scarcity by having well designed containers for bulk storage. Dried fruits as snacks during the day are a wonderful substitute to sweets and other processed and highly salted food. They are so much better for you in terms of nutrition and fiber. When one is hiking or camping, the light weight nature and high nutritional value and long term integrity of dried fruit makes it the perfect complement to the camping and hiking menu. In addition for sports and hard physical labor, this fruit is easily and compactly stored and just the right kind of nutrition break that boosts energy just when you need it. Examples like these go on and on. The bottom line is that virtually everyone would benefit from making dried fruit an integral part of your life. There are key broad categories that a person should be familiar with such as orchard fruits, tropical fruits and berries. A natural compliment to dried fruits are nuts of all sorts; they tend to be categorized under the same umbrella with dry fruit since they go together so well. There are dozens and dozens of different kinds of fruits that can be dried successfully. Perhaps the oldest examples are figs, dates and raisins. Others that are very popular are apricots, cherries, apples, cranberries, apples, mangos, pineapples, pears peaches and tomatoes. The list goes on and on. Dried fruit does not have all the nutrition of fresh fruit, but other than vitamin C, most vitamins, minerals and other nutrients of fresh fruits are significantly available in dried fruit. In addition the taste tends to be more intense and the fiber more concentrated. It is hard to go wrong with a lot of dried fruit in one’s life.