Message Forums

Allo again...

I'm getting all excited about using my new Pathfinder but I had another question for other pennine owners..

Do you actually use your fridge ? Its so small a pint of milk and it would be full...

So what do you do ? Hire ? take another ? or a cool box ?

Many thanks for your replies...

No you get far more in there than you think.    We pack it all in lol!   Seriously we usually travel down with our plug in 12v cool box (with adaptor) for the actual journey and have all food in there that needs to be cool.  Once on site we switch the Pathfinder fridge on to cool and then trasfer most of the food over once cool.   You can fit in things like bacon, sasuages, eggs, milk, marge etc.  We also plug in our cool box too and keep what we cant fit in the fridge in there.  We tend to put the things that are not as important to keep cool in the cool box and the stuff that needs to be in a fridge all the time in the FC one.  As the food gets used we then transfer all food to the fridge and use the cool box as a drinks cooler.

With careful packing (and pre freezing ) you can get more in than you think and still keep things safely cool.  I would recommend removing any packaging around products that is not essential to save room too. 

Having said that don't expect to get your Sunday roast in there lol!

I drink Pepsi Max at home and naturally buy it in the 2lt bottles.

But when wwe are in the FC, we buy it in cans. Really, for using these wee fridges you have to think, "wee fridge" when you are buying anything. Or, if you are paking from home to go away, think wee fridge.

As Andcow says, removing some food packaging can save space.

We tend to cut off the cooking instructions and then repack the food in soft poly bags so that we can stuff some of our foods into smaller spaces.

Oh, and once you are away and on site and your fridge is down to temp, if you are in the UK (usual summer, not all that hot) you will probably be able to turn the fridge down a bit and save yourself some gas.

One thing Gallus, When you are away camping, cooking is not like at home.

We tend to live and eat more day to day and only buy in advance for up to two days.

When on a site we, more often than not, will travel about and explore one day and then laze about doing sod all the next day.

The exploring days are also the shopping days and the laze about days usually include some leisurely cooking.

Hour long breakfasts, sandwich lunches and fish suppers often take care of the exploring days, while the same breakies and lunches with 3 hour dinners take up the lazy days.

With your milk, butter, a couple of cans and your fresh meat in the fridge and the ice cream in the ice box, what more could a body ask for?