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11/8/2014 at 1:27pm
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We are camping puritans who don't do EHU, and we manage with a cool bag, as long as there is somewhere to freeze ice packs or hire them already frozen.
We "pre-chill" it with a couple of frozen bottles of water, put our food in and ice packs. We always swap them over at the end of the day, so they stay cool overnight, and late morning on the following day, if it's hot. We then cover the cool bag with a wet towel, to keep it even cooler.
If it's hot and we're going for long drive, we put it in the car and have the air con on!
We only really use it for milk and butter, because we're lazy and mostly eat out, apart from breakfast, so don't tend to have a lot of meat in it.
We've never had food poisoning yet! And we cram the empty coolbag with our dirty laundry for the trip home!
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12/8/2014 at 1:21am
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Quote: Originally posted by fran1000 on 11/8/2014We are camping puritans who don't do EHU, and we manage with a cool bag, as long as there is somewhere to freeze ice packs or hire them already frozen.
Same here, we don't (and never will) do EHU.
Pointless as it is to try and convert the tech-loving crowd  , I could still share a few tips.
We, too, mostly eat out apart from breakfast. Now, for breakfast (usually porridge) and coffee we bring a pot of cream which takes up much less space than milk and would even do a good enough job diluted with water and poured over cereal.
Check the campsite details, if there's a shop they'd probably sell stuff like sausages, milk, butter, etc.
Before we had a coolbox, I used to just bury the cream pot in the ground (in the shade) or in damp leaves under a tree. Better still, if there's a stream running through the campsite, that could even keep raw meat fresh for 24 hours! Just stick whatever you're cooling into a plastic box/bag, submerge and make sure you tie the ends securely to something on the bank.
If you buy your milk/sausages/etc in the evening, you can safely store them like so till morning without any cool box.
Anything you cook will be safe to eat anyway - in the food industry, food is deemed free of bacteria if heated to above 65C (for longer than 5-10 min if memory serves).
If there's a supermarket within a 10-minute drive, or if you're driving through a town on your way to a local attraction (which in most places in the UK you would), buy ready meals on each trip, stick them in the coolbox with freshly frozen ice blocks, change blocks when you get back to campsite if needed. That way you won't have to lug around a massive fridge.
HTH!
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