Looking for Handy Hints with food while camping?

We tried it, and it didn't work. Bread was off in 5 days, tasted like vinegar. Maybe we used a tabloid instead of a broadsheet :-)

The only thing we have started doing in the last few years that is worth telling anyone about are those really big snaplok bags. We now use them for anything that does not come in re-sealable packaging. Chips, peanuts, bread, crackers, cheese, vege's in da fridge.

I know it's not rocket science, but stale food while camping is a rarity nowadays.

Also great for marinating meat in the fridge while travelling.
Also great for defrosting meat in the fridge, no more bulky plastic containers, and they are washable.

take the camp oven and make some !!! saves trying to throw those loaves of bread in somwhere ... need that room for the carton !!

Hi Laura

Its the oxygen that makes bread go off.

If you get your standard sliced loaf and suck some air out of it and put tie back on , such that you don't suck to much and squash it , it will last more than a week in the back of the car. Usually better to put another plastic bag over it to , often they come with odd hole already.

Usually carry 3 or 4 smaller loafs here so that after sealing you only open the one loaf as required until consumed.

Off course that assumes the kids don't open first one they see!

Robin Miller

You should have a look at the Travelling Homemakers Outlet in Canada. They have a spun aluminium container, with a snap latch lid, bit like a pressure cooker. You plug this baby into your 110 / 12 volt supply, and it has a very small pump, which pumps astronomical amounts of air pressure into the chamber.

Think of a can of spray paint, and how it doesn't dry in the tin. If I spray paint at work, with my spray gun, I can leave it in the pot for a few days, as long as there is enough air pressure in the lines. The air pressure stops the drying.

Scientists have now determined that moulds cannot survive, or propagate under atmospheres greater than 1 atmosphere. The pressure built up in the chamber is almost the same as an autoclave, and a hyperbolic chamber combined, whereby germs are killed.

It is always funny, to bring out a loaf of bread, if you've opened the lid too quickly (you are supposed to wait), the bread suffers from the bends! It goes all big and lopsided, looks really cool!!

Cheers

Wolfie

Laura

So whatcha gunna do?

Do as Robin does and take the air away, or follow Wolfies idea and pump more air in?

I hate choices.

Banjo (WA)

Lock & lock containers water proof air proof keep ya mobile in it while swimming or your bacon in it for up to 6 weeks in a fridge, all shapes and sizes my missus would rather i didnt come home if i lost a precious piece
steve

goodday laura b
sorry about taking so long to reanswer
just go to tvsn on the net or watch the shopping channel(i think i am brainwashed )
go to tvsn and its listed amongst the products and it does work
we bought our 1st lot at the caravan and camping show in melb got 1 big pack and use it as a water tight 1st aid box

steve