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Hi

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.

B

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.

xoopsx

Fill up a bowl with water, keep in shade and put your cans of beer, bottles of wine in there to keep cool !

 When im away and the cool box is full off food i get a bucket of cold water for the wine and beer !!! does the trick ok.

Dan

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Cheers  Ratty

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.

Hi

thanks everyone, some great tips there. Looking forward to our first trip away, just hope it doesnt rain all weekend! THanks again.

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.