Cinnamon Apple Chips

My favorite part of having parties as a kid was all the nasty junk food!  Potato chips and cheese or ranch dip were my all time favorite junk foods.  Yum!!

I haven't bought a bag of potato chips in years.  I honestly don't know what would happen to my body if I ate like I did in high school these days.  Let's not find out.

Kind of went a little heavy on the cinnamon, but it was still amazing!

Instead... with the help of my new incredible dehydrator, Let's make healthy and delicious apple chips!!  Don't worry if you don't have a dehydrator.  You should go out and just buy one, but if you don't want to, you can also bake these in the oven instead.

Enjoy!

Cinnamon Apple Chips

Ingredients:
4-5 large apples cored and sliced thinly (using a mandolin helps to keep them the same size)
2 tablespoons of lemon juice
1 cup water
2 tablespoons cinnamon sugar

Directions:
Mix together the water and lemon juice.  Once the apples are sliced, soak them in the lemon juice mixture for about 3 minutes. Place the apples on your dehydrator racks being sure not to overlap.  Lightly sprinkle cinnamon over apples.  Turn dehydrator on 135 degrees for about 6 hours.  Be sure to check back towards the end because if you over dehydrate the apples, they lose some nutrients. Let cool and snack away!!  These are seriously my new favorite go-to snack! Store in an airtight container in a cool, dry place.  

If baking:  After soaking apples in the lemon juice mixture, place on a baking sheet (using parchment paper), sprinkle with cinnamon sugar, and bake at 200 degrees for 2 hours, turning once after an hour.  Let cool on a cooling rack.