How to store food on long car ride?

Question

We're going on a trip by car and we'll be bringing food to cook there. The car ride plus before the food can reach a fridge would be around 6 - 7 hours. Food we're bringing are sirloin beef, and chopped veggies, like peppers, carrots, tomatoes, sealed in zip lock bags. Is putting them all in a cooler the best way to store them in the trunk of a car?

Answer 1

Its a long ride. What I usually do is pack all the food in Tupperware type containers. Plastic bags are good, but the plastic containers wrapped in plastic bags is better. Load the container and pour ice over all. store in the trunk. Check after a few hours, depending on the temperature outside the cooler you may have to replace the ice. Drain out the water, and buy ice at a gas station or pull into a hotel and take ice from the machine. We would pack food for a 18 hour trip to Florida from NY. This is how we did it.

Answer 2

A cooler in the trunk should be fine if you use plenty of ice. You might want to stop at a convenience store halfway there for fresh ice if it's really warm out - trunks can get pretty hot in the sun. You can also mix alcohol and water in a few ziploc bags and freeze that - the alcohol lets it get below freezing and will keep your food fresh longer. Good for the meat, anyway.

Answer 3

Yeah a cooler would be fine but don't keep it in the trunk if u want the ice to last long but ur idea should work

Answer 4

A Cooler in the trunk is the best

Answer 5

Pack it in a cooler with dry ice.

Answer 6

I saw the same thing on the simpsons and homer ate all the food before it had chance to go bad

Answer 7

DRY ICE!!! And have empty plastic bottles ready to make dry ice bombs - it's fun!!!

Answer 8

cooler

Answer 9

use dry ice