8cu ft refrigerator

How many of you that feel you need the larger fridge, spend time in rural areas where it could be an hour or more to a real grocery store? I am hoping to volunteer with state and national parks, where I could be that far from a real store.

We currently have a 10 cf fridge and the first couple of years of fulltiming had a 8cf fridge. Both worked out just fine. There are stores and farmers markets everywhere. We too prefer fresh veggies and fruit. We do have an Engel freezer but we bought that for our Alaska fish catch. We could live without it. I did not have one of those gigantic fridges in my S&B so maybe it was easier for us to adapt. I could have gotten the big fridge when we ordered our RV but preferred more counter space and a huge pantry.

Ours is 9 CuFt and we've been full time for three years. Two of us and feel we have enough space. Like someone said, seems like there are groceries available everywhere, so no need to carry supplies to last a long time. Plenty of room for cold drink container, milk, fruit, frozen veggies, meat, fish in freezer... A whole watermelon - no... two gallons of milk?... it's a squeeze. I think you'll be just fine with your choice.

retispcsi wrote:
We have full timed, snow birded and traveled for extended period of time. We now full time again. Our new rig on order has a 20 cu.ft. residential frig. We eat fresh food not canned or processed and of course fruit. The smaller fridge is a pain in the you know what. It depends on your habits and what type of food you like. We are looking forward to the ice maker and the larger freezer. Yes you can go off grid with a residential fridge. We have a 2800 inverter, 4 6v batteries a 6500 watt gen. and solar to be added after market. There is no best answer for everyone.

We do fresh food and home freezing as well. In truth I'd prefer if the freezer was larger than the fridge, LOL. I don't like storing a lot of produce in the fridge and in observing what I keep in my S+B's 20 cubic home unit, I see that condiments take up a lot more space than food. The trick for me will be to to learn to live w/o them. Or find a new way of storing them;).

We started with the small fridge but after the first year of full timing we decided to update to a new FW. The three deciding factors in getting a new unit was a bigger fridge, larger bed, and 6-point level up. Even with a small fridge in the basement we found that we had to have a large double door fridge in the kitchen. We were going to the store every other day with the small fridge.

We have full timed, snow birded and traveled for extended period of time. We now full time again. Our new rig on order has a 20 cu.ft. residential frig. We eat fresh food not canned or processed and of course fruit. The smaller fridge is a pain in the you know what. It depends on your habits and what type of food you like. We are looking forward to the ice maker and the larger freezer. Yes you can go off grid with a residential fridge. We have a 2800 inverter, 4 6v batteries a 6500 watt gen. and solar to be added after market. There is no best answer for everyone.

we camp for about 4 to 5 months at a time and never needed anything larger. *cu ft. has even done those smaller watermelons from Costco. Were we camp the ice is free so if we need to load up a cooler we can but normally do not use it other than to shop all day in the heat.

When we started "longtiming", we just adapted our shopping pattern to the size of the fridge. We're normally out and about enough that picking up things as we run low usually doesn't require many dedicated shopping trips.

We have a Dometic 8 cu. ft fridge, full timed for 7 yrs. and dang if there wasn't a grocery store every where we went.

Have a 17 cu ft. fridge in our house and I like the 8 cu.ft better. Stuff gets lost in back of shelves in the bigger one.

YES an 8 cu. ft. is plenty big........eggs, butter, milk, tea jug, beer, wine, condiments, fresh vegs, left overs etc. Never felt like we needed bigger or that we didn't have room for items that needed to be in fridge.
Steaks, chicken breasts, pork chops, hamburger, chili, sauces and ice cube trays etc. in freezer...no problem.

Sorry, I did not realize you already had a fridge. In that case I would consider buying one of those cheap small fridges that Walmart, Target, Home Depot and Lowes sells. The ones that are only about 2 ft tall. Commonly used by kids in the college dorms. I would keep it in the basement and set it outside for use when set up at a CG. It could probably hold all your drinks easily.

I also have one of those tabletop ice makers. Makes about 8-10 small finger-size cubes every 8-10 minutes. You just pour a gallon of water in it and plug it in. Replenish with water as cubes are made and consumed. It has a small UNINSULATED reservoir for the cubes. These things are great if you just need ice for drinks for a few people. Or bag the ice and put them in the fridge freezer as ice is made. I set it up every morning and just let it run, either outside or inside.