we have booked our first trip away this year next Friday with some friends to Harrow Wood, near Christchurch. We dont have electric for the first time and wondered how people keep their milk, bacon, sausages, (beer of course) and wine cold for 48 hours. THey do have a freezer so will be swapping freezer blocks. Any other tips would be greatly appreciated! Looking forward to it and hope this lovely weather holds!
a good cool box like the coleman extreme or an igloo max cold and avoid opening it to much
and freeze everything that you take with you like the bacon and sausage and if you have space freeze up a couple of bottles of water and put them in as well
Seperate your bacon into portions before freezing as it will make it easier when you want to use it. You can freeze OJ too. Keep cool box in the shady as much as poss, and try not to open lid too much! My OJ was still slightly frozen on the sunday morning, and the wine in the cool box was still nice and cool.
My freezer blocks are still frozen after 2 days camping by keeping it in the shade and only opening for a short while when needed. I freeze meat for the BBQ but make sure you dont leave it in the freezer at home like I did last time I went camping
Breezes tip for the frozen orange juice is good too but I found mine stayed too frozen so had to be defrosted before we could drink it - this was after 2 days.
My cool box isnt one of the branded ones - its just one of those that you can plug into chill stuff in but have never actually plugges it in.
We freeze capri sun drinks for the kids and get those tiny individual milk cartons and free those too. We also freeze 1 litre orange juice cartons and keep these in cool bags with ice block.
We're going away for our first time on the 4th of August, and we're going to freeze most of our food, plus 2x2ltr of water. We'll buy pints of milk when we arrive and buy bacon from delis as you can ask for a number of slices rather than weight. The wife is buying screw top wine, drinking a bit out and freezing that too.We're gonna keep the coolbox topped up with a bag of ice when we're there. Just remember liquid expands a bit if you're freezing bottles.
Hope you have fun.
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recently went aaway for a firday to sunday thing using just 2 standard cool boxes. the cheap ones. what i do is make sure every ting is well chilled before and that everything is in sealed in water tight containers that moer applie to thkngs like bacon and sausages make sure they in the sealed packs. then on day i leave i stop at local supermarket and get 3 big bags of ice £1 a bag for 2.5kg. i empty that in the to cool boxes. when it melts it turns to water of course but leave the water in there is like icy cold and everyhing stays ok. still had ice in box on sunday for trip home :)
Go for the 12v electric 25L Cool box was 49.99 on offer at Sainsburys for an amazing £12.50 with free fravel rug. Just got one today. Selling fast. Ask customer service to check the display cabinet for you or in store window display they sometimes have the odd last one around. It also keeps food warm.
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Topic: keeping food & drinks cold, off 1st aug!
i get a bucket of cold water for the wine and beer !!! does the trick ok.
