getting ice en route to Lake Eyre?

You should be OK with getting ice no prob's , don't try and get milk at William Creek when my wife asked she could buy milk from the William Creek Pub she was told by the Bar Lady in no certain way that she could get milk 300k that way at Roxby or 300k the other way at Coober Pedy. Nice Bar Lady emmmmm.

Cheers Scoof . :-)

Hi Holiday hound

There have been a few posts in the past about keeping the food in good condition.

These days we take a 25lt fridge but most of the stuff you mention doesn't go in it.

Mostly we use a good 5 day rated esky like Coleman and put ice in it at Port Augusta.

Bread, normally we don't buy white bread, but for trips we do, and just suck some of the air out of the packet and it keeps for a week out of the sun, up to two weeks if your prepared to check it and throw the odd mouldy bit out , milk has never been an issue as its just open a new container of long life stuff as required.

Vegies tend to be the same to , almost none of ours go in a fridge or esky, just wrapped in a cardboard box, tomato's - beyond enough for the first2 or 3 days would go in fridge.

Hope to be up there in a couple ourseleves and it sure looks like its going to be warm.

For milk take the long life stuff in cartons. Just put the opened carton in the esky, the rest can be carried anywhere.

Learn how to make a damper ;-)

Holiday Hound,

We do carry a fridge but not a big one and we carry a lot of perishables just in an Eski.

The secret for us is to use our meat as ice. by freezing the meat as cold as possible before leaving home and using some cryvac we have carried meat without problems for 11 or 12 days. We also carry stuff to make sure the eski has no air space in it this keeps the meat frozen longer.

Potatoes, onions, carrots even pumpkin will keep for a good while without refrigeration. Use lots of these. Once you cut a pumpkin it should go in the fridge. Buy small pumpkins and use it on 2 consecutive nights if you can't eat it all in one sitting. If you keep eggs cool and dark they will keep without refrigeration for about a week. We also use dried peas and corn, they keep indefinately without a fridge.

Milk is a problem. I learned to drink black tea out in the bush because I did not like any of the alternatives to fresh. Without knowing what you use the milk for you may be able to use long life custard as a dairy substitute. Keeps the cornflakes on your spoon and if you sell it as a holiday treatl the kids will love it.

Put your mind to it and you will come up with things that will work for your situation.

Duncs

Hello H H

If possible use block ice and break it up with a hammer yourself the crushed ice dosnt last as long the bigger the pieces of ice the longer it lasts.

Have a great trip.
Scoof . :-)