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14/8/2013 at 11:17am
Location: Scotland.
Outfit: Conway Camargue Lots of Vangos. .
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3-way fridge run on gas?
We do have EHU too, we go for up to a month at a time and yes, we take laptops and such then. But surprisingly the kids (16 & 11) hardly bother with the electronics when camping, they prefer books and Monopoly and whatever is going on at the games field.
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15/8/2013 at 6:18am
Location: South Staffs
Outfit: Vango Ventanas Cabanon Andorra & Calvi
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Never used electric in all the years we've been camping.
To keep the stuff cold we use a 3 way absorption fridge (just bough a new Combicool to replace the old one we had for over 10 years).
Yes the initial outlay is expensive but I think it pays for itself over time with not eating out
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15/8/2013 at 10:33pm
Location: Essex
Outfit: Croyde 6 Bude 4 Vango Zeal Klondike
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Hi - we have just come back from 2 weeks camping and don't use EHU at all. We take a coolbox which starts out filled up with some frozen food at the bottom, then ice blocks on top of this, chilled food on next layer then anything else to fill in the gaps on top of that. We book sites that have a facility to re-freeze ice packs and 2 sets of 3 (one set in the freezer whilst other is in coolbox). Another thing we do is buy big bag of ice in the supermarket as they also work well. We cook our evening meals on site about 70% of the time and take a picnic most days. Takes a bit of planning but that's part of the fun!?
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15/8/2013 at 10:46pm
Location: Dorset
Outfit: Royal Atlanta 6
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The only thing with ice packs and bags of ice is the costs associated. On our week away we filled a trug with ice every other day to keep the drinks cool, cost of this = £1.50 per bag = £6.00.
Ice blocks cost 10p each to re freeze, we only took 2 to use with the packed lunch per day, total cost £1.40.
Total cost of ice blocks and bags = £7.40 and that was just for a drinks bucket and a lunch box.
I suppose that's just over £1 per day for us but would be more if this was our only way of cooling down food in the cool box.
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15/8/2013 at 11:05pm
Location: Meath Ireland
Outfit: Raclet Quickstop quechua base 2nds 4.
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I think even if you have EHU, it won't be available on every site so it's better to have a set-up where you can manage with or without it. The icey-tek looks fab, it's on my camping shopping list but unfortunately after last weekend, it has been bumped down the list due to now needing to get decent SIMs to sleep on.
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16/8/2013 at 1:28pm
Location: South Wales
Outfit: Montana 6P & vango venture 600 dlx
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We do both types of camping, if no ehu we freeze everything and then use facilities to re freeze ice packs.
we have been to Midbrooks in Wiltshire where they have two fridge freezers free for campers to use.
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16/8/2013 at 6:52pm
Location: Aberdeenshire
Outfit: Several tents and a hammock
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I'm usually at sites without EHU or facilities for freezing ice packs so I just buy fresh food each day as I need it and take some UHT milk with me, opening a new pint each day.
Some sites have a fridge for the use of campers and that's really handy.
My ideal camping holiday would involve eating out every day! If only . . .
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17/8/2013 at 6:27pm
Location: Essex
Outfit: Croyde 6 Bude 4 Vango Zeal Klondike
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Ah cost can be an issue with re-freezing etc but we always check out the sites for our long stays and make sure they re-freeze for free! Am sure somewhere on here there's a great post about how to pack up a cool box - it was reading that that I learnt how to do it and have done it the way last 3 years. But yes, agree it can be expensive if they charge for each ice pack. Still cheaper than eating out all the time though.
Site we stayed on in Wales this year was fantastic - had a campers kitchen with toaster, fridge and microwave!
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