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I have a cool box for no EHU weekends away we pre-freeze either 1.5 litre bottles filled with water or the inside silver bags from boxes of wine - filled with water of course.  These last a lot longer than the thin usually blue ice blocks and you can drink the water as it melts meaning you always have cold water.  also you can freeze it to the shape that you need for your coolbag/box. Freeze your meats too and milk of course.  I've also put the beer and wine in buckets too.  Lots good ideas on here.  Have fun.

Fiona

Quote: Originally posted by leonsmith on 31/8/2011

We bought a 3-way fridge last year - best thing we ever did.

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It's runs on gas, doesn't seem to use much and is completely silent too.

Brilliant gadget. Wouldn't be without it now. But yes, you do really need a canopy outside your tent to store it when it's running on gas.

We've just got back from a week long trip...we took our Igloo Maxcold and also an electric coolbox (for drinks as there were 5 of us)

I froze 4 x 2L bottles of water before we went and added ice blocks and some frozen food too, everything else was fridge cold.  We bought a bag of ice every couple of days as there was a Sainsbury's just up the road and it worked really well - the 2L frozen bottles were still half frozen when we got back yesterday tea time and everything stayed fridge cold.

It's the first time we've used it for more than a long weekend and we're so glad we bought it now, it cost approx £75 but is worth every penny in my humble opinion