Food & Traveling

Yes, you can travel with the refrigerator on. Some tunnels/bridges ask you to turn off the propane when driving through/over them but otherwise there's no reason to turn it off.

Even if you don't choose to run the fridge on propane while traveling, if you load frozen items into the freezer with a few freezer gel packs or just plain ice it should be fine for quite some time.

You can travel with the refrigerator on propane. Some tunnels require you turn it off and you may want to turn it off at the gas station (some do, some don't). We load ours the day before the trip and travel on.

We always travel with the fridge on. I don't know who told you that you couldn't but they are wrong.

I am on vacation when travelling... so I cook up a bunch of stuff for simple meals at home, freeze it, and take it along. If there's not enough space in the freezer I use an extra cooler. Things like spaghetti sauce, soups & stews, casseroles that freeze well. Less cooking and cleanup on vacation!

RBPerry wrote:
OI guess frozen is out of the question since we can't travel with refrigerator on.

I can.

I turn on my fridge on electric a day or two before leaving on a trip so that it can cool completely and thoroughly. I put it in auto so that it switches to propane while on the road. And it never gets turned off until we return home.

Before we leave our house we load up the freezer and fridge with all of the food from the house. Your system runs off the propane you can just leave it on. I never turn mine off when traveling.

For us it depends on where we are going, how far, what we plan on doing for the time we're there.

For long trips out of state we typically don't buy too many groceries until we get to our destination. On day of arrival we find a place to eat out and just relax.

On shorter trips in state we do most of shopping in advance. We like what we get from our local butcher. The fridge/freezer are just fine for the 3 or 4 hours most of our "local" trips take.

We have kept things in our fridge and freezer for up to 15 hours without having to run the propane. Just throw some freezer packs in both the fridge and freezer.

We carry a small dual power compressor refer set to frozen. I can pack about a months worth of frozen food between that and the refers freezer compartment. Not a big deal. But for all practical purposes you shoild be able to load a weeks worth of frozen food. Plan to shop about once a week.

Thanks for your responses, we misunderstood about refrigerator use while traveling, good news, and you all were a great help, this is a big learning process for us.
BB_TX, good idea to pre-cool.
I think husband has a little fear of propane, he has seen some propane fires.