Travel Lunches Non-Heat Non-Fridge?
I'm a single senior. I expect to head out for Big Bend NP next week and will be staying in the Chisos Mountain campground (no hookups but I have a 12v fridge). However, I will be taking day trips arou...
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Gary. wrote:
Super Dave-- I've thought about that quite a bit-- went to school with a metal lunch box with a sandwich that had meat in it and no refrigeration! Never got sick, also no childs seat in car. How the heck did we ever survive?
Former Health Inspector here.
Take it from me: provided it's fully cooked, practically NO food perhaps excepting plain milk will "spoil" or grow bad guys if unrefrigerated for five or six hours. All those old stories about dead-folks-at-the-picnic likely involved HOMEMADE mayo, which is uncooked. Commercial mayonnaise will keep indefinitely without refrigeration. Or at least as long as it takes for one to fix, carry, and eat a sandwich.
