awoodwaring
California
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facory wrote:We make our major meals at home and pack them up for travel. We've been using a Food Saver vacuum machine for years. Actually, we've had meals that were prepared and frozen up to a year ago and it tasted fresh. As stated before, it's amazing how much the refrig/freezer will hold. Of course, we always leave a shelf open for the beer. ;-)
We will have a separate cooler for the beer. 
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'68Monaco440HP
Corpus Christi, Texas
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This is a good topic.
Having a plan to cover a long period of time makes great sense. After all, the point of having an RV to travel for pleasure is to be away from metro areas, and assuming that food is always easily available makes no real sense when one thinks about it. Having an RV for when times are tough (natural disaster, man-made problems) it makes even more sense.
If nothing else, planning and experimenting with extended "boondocking" isn't just having a blue-boy and a solar panel, it's knowing how to use the supply of fresh water and food in a way that is best for the situation. Running out of water and food in just a few days seems the height of foolishness when only a bit of planning and mix of supplies could have avoided it.
I don't worry too much over refrigerator space for these purposes, but am interested in sowmthing as mundane as properly-shaped containers that can maximize the amount of food in freezer storage. I recently have been in touch with two oil & gas pipeline inspectors about purchasing their trailers, and, in both cases, both carry a portable freezer to increase the amount of home-cooked food for those 6-8 week assignments in remote areas of North America. On the days off, one can do the cooking/food storage to make the evening meal a good one (and without long prep times). A Wal-Mart or other may be a 150-mile roundtrip or farther.
To the same end, I'd want to know what mix of dried or canned food storage capacity is reasonable for my RV that needs little energy to prep. If I used it for pleasure travel, so much the better. But the utility of an RV goes to waste without some knowledge of how to use it when easily-obtained groceries cannot be assumed.
Ready to roll means fresh water and food will match one another. And that the energy needed to use them doesn't exceed other capacities. A one month plan seems a good place to start. Records to track or trend use is the obvious second item.
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