Food in the caravan freezer
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D3an there are three threads running on this by this poster. (2 staryed today at the same time the website isdue? AND 1 last evening). Plus somewhere on CT there are loads of threads with hundreds of answers on this subject. But the search facility is rubbish and I couldn't find them last night.
The constant advice given and used by us vanners for journeys of long duration is as follows
- Pre chill if possible. We store away from home and can't but it still works!
- Pack the fridge and freezer to capacity
- Use cartons of juice, milk, water to fill gaps frozen is good too.
- Ensure you travel with the fridge on 12v
- Keep the door closed and as little as possible opening until you're back on gas or EHU.
- Most folks, including us will tell you that the frozen meal you put in the fridge to thaw on the journey is still very frozen even after such journeys!
- There is no need to add extra stuff to take or add to the weight, remember that is a vital part of a trip 😉
- Should you wish to use a cool box or bag at your destination then fill that too.
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I would do everything that Bakers2 recommends, except running the fridge on 12volt once your engine is turned off. This will just drain the battery.
We pack every square inch of our fridge space, with small packs of orange juice, milk, even things like sachets of cook-in sauces, etc., which can be squeezed in. If there are small spaces where nothing frozen will fit, then fold a J cloth or similar to fill the cap - to remove as much 'spare air' as possible. If you do that everything should stay cold for the duration of the crossing, (even on the longer crossings to Spain) and the food in your freezer will stay frozen.
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Absolutely agree with the above posts, we do the 24 hrs crossing to Spain so fridge off for around 27 hrs, everything still frozen in the freezer even the 4 pint of milk that was frozen and place in the door of the fridge hadn't fully defrosted. Anything with good water/solid type food will stay frozen for the journey. I usually have a few meals like curry, chilli, bolognase and then frozen chicken legs, sausages and burgers, a couple of freezer blocks and they all are still solid on arrival.
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You don't like Spanish food, Tammy?
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Whatever happened to shopping for local produce or markets in every country ?? All that weight you're carry in in the fridge/freezer too !! Agree ,some peoples diets are specific ,or to carry the odd emergency meal ,,,BUT ??.All that lovely continental food ,Mmmm 
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We do shop locally, not much choice when your away for 10 weeks. I guess I'm one of those people that likes to be organised and prepared for any eventuality, so taking a bit of food with us allows us freedom of where we spend the night without having to do shopping on the way or find a site with a restaurant nearby (although I probably wouldn't use it anyway)
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Good point ValDa re 12v. We're a motorhome and 12v ceases when engine turned off.
We tend to load fridge/freezer for first meals and ensure we have sufficient milk etc until we've sussed out new area. Can't store that much in van fridges 😉. Once away we shop locally and occasionally eat out. Fridge runs itself down naturally. Even when only half full everything going stays as it should whilst we're out and about even on hot days. The fridge is like a giant cool box in its own right.
I'm with Tammygirl to a certain extent I have to know ( & hubby more so) what a dish will consist of before ordering or eating, sometimes it's very expensive to eat little or nothing 😲. We are also not drinkers, that doesn't mean we don't but not even a weekly occurrence 😉
I love to shop locally home or away.
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Thanks to everyone who replied, it was all good advice. I thought that the first thread had not been included on the sight therefore I posted the second. We have travelled to Europe several times with the caravan but only on the short crossings. The frozen food is to cover us for the first few days until we are settled and have found the local supermarkets etc where we do enjoy the shopping.
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