When we were using the pop up, I put in a small apartment or student size fridge, Bought our meats and groceries for a few days at a time. Packed right you can get an awful lot in one of them little fridges, ours had a small freezer as well. More then paid for itself in the savings of ice and convienince. All this depends of course on whether or not you have electricity where you are camping.
Happy Trails. Tip.
Tip & Darcy
1965 Travco RMC270D
Class A Diesel
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90 Geo Metro LSi
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Fresh meat will easily keep from now until Sunday. Buy it fresh today (Tuesday). Repackage into doubled ziplocks or preferably heat sealed bags. Then put it all in the cooler and cover with plenty of ice. It will stay at 32 degrees as long as there is ice. Most home fridges are 38 to 40 degrees and that goes up every time you open the door. It will keep much better at 32.
For what it's worth I bought two fresh turkeys on Saturday. They've been in my Coleman Extreme cooler covered with ice ever since. I have no worries about their freshness come Thursday.
Jim
2002 Chalet Arrowhead
2004 Subaru Forester XT
Long Beach, California
Ground Beef and chicken are 2 meats I wouldn't trust to simply keep cold. I would freeze both and confine with dry ice, probably about a pound. You could then transfer the meat you want defrosted to another part of the cooler a day ahead.
2002 Ford F350 Crew, LB, DRW, 7.3L
Jayco Designer 34RLQS
I would buy meat, freeze it and put it in the refrigerator to defrost for two days before I wanted to use it. If it was a small amount of meat, one day would be enough. The chicken and dumplings idea shounds great.
Trick I have found to keep frozen meat frozen for a lot longer is freeze it and put it in a 6 pack cooler with a lb of dry ice. Then put the 6 pack cooler inside a bigger 5 day cooler. Stays frozen a long time
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