Cardeer I am constantly trying to come up with new ideas to post and I cannot believe I didn't ask the same question you did. All last fall I dried apples and came up with about 11 gallons worth. In the future I hope to get more but I start feeding in Jan and this year I will use just one gallon a week so it will last until the end of this month.
Problem is I don't think they are eating them. I set them out and they sit there for a while and the corn and soybeans are gone. I also freeze acorns to mix in with there feed. I also put carrots out and they were not touched. I have read that deer need time to get used to food they are not accustomed to eat. This happened to me when I began using pumpkins in the fall. They were slow to touch them, but when they did they hit them hard. So maybe because they are not used to eating something during that time of the year they are slow to approach them.
That wasn't the case of some old Halloween candy I put out. It was those peanut butter chewy candy things and the night i put them out they were gone the next day. What do you think of my deer smorgasbord?

Mike in MN