I was thinking about how to keep our food drier in the coolers, because I really don't like soggy food in coolers. So I wondered what it would be like to make my own freezer packs. It worked SOOOO good! Almost no water in the coolers AND the ice lasted Weds - Sat. The advantages of block ice without taking up the space that block ice does.
This is what I did: 1. Purchased good gallon freezer storage bags. The kind with the zipper was easiest to work with. 2. Doubled up two bags. 3. Filled up the inside bag 70 - 75% full of water. This is the equivalent of 7 lbs. 4. Zipped up both bags - getting excess air out of the bags. 5. Lay them flat in a freezer to freeze. It takes over 24 hours to freeze. 6. When we packed up coolers - large but not the over large kind of coolers - I put one on each end and one in the middle. That coupled with freezing everything else that we could freeze made it so that the ice packs lasted from 9:00 am Wednesday morning - Saturday. (With the 3 packs in each cooler it was the equivalent of 21 lbs of ice.) Two other things: 1. We were lucky enough that the cooler for the last day was a super good arctic type cooler so I know that helped, but the other coolers did SUPER well too. 2. I also packed "by the day." So 1 cooler was only for 1 day. That way we weren't getting in and out of all of the coolers all of the time.
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