Food & Traveling
Ok, we are brand new to the RV world, and camping. How do you plan your food purchases, how much, dos and don'ts. I guess frozen is out of the question since we can't travel with refrigerator on.
Forum Discussion
wing_zealot wrote:Allworth wrote:You are apparently willing to take a much bigger risk and drive to your destination. Your willingness drive vs. non use of propane is just plain nonsense.
I cannot believe that I am the only one on this forum who is NOT comfortable with the propane on while in motion. I turn it off at the tanks. Every time the trailer turns a wheel.
The chance of a propane accident is tiny, but why risk it if it is not absolutely necessary. I watched a TT burn in the median about 10 years ago (after rolling over) and while I know there have been improvements in valves and controls, I'm not risking it.
We usually travel one day and then sit and play tourist for one or two days before moving on. On travel days the critical cold stuff goes in an RTIC (think YETI)cooler with blue ice packs and stays there until initial cool down of the fridge is complete at the new location.
Your trailer; your choice! I don't see it as worth even a very small risk.
Until I started reading things on this forum I had never heard of anyone not running there propane fridge while driving and I don't know of anyone that turns the fridge off at the gas pump.
Moving stuff from the fridge to a cooler and back again is just plain nonsense. Stuff in fridge is cold so lets move it to a hot cooler then add blue ice packs which are barely one step above cold to cool the cooler and keep the food cold. Why not just put the blue ice packs or better yet some frozen water bottles in the fridge compartment and keep the door closed? If you left the food in the fridge with some ice bottles there would be no initial cool down of the fridge when you got to your new location as the fridge would still be fairly cool.
People have to make small stuff way harder then it needs to be.
