Living without a fridge

cyberbob

As GV when we go camping we always keep milk in a cold bucket of water. If you have someone nearby who can freeze the blue blocks for cool boxes for you you could have a cool box and swap over the blocks frequently

bevan840

very good idea's, last time I went camping was when I was little with my parents. Will definitely look into the electric coolboxes, I can only find one in Argos at the moment, but will keep it in mind until we move and see if we need it or if the fridge magically appears early *gets on her knees and prays!!* Thanks guys for your replies

Penelope_Penguin

Take a look at this older thread on living without a fridge I'll merge this later to keep ideas together.

The_Thrilla

When I was a kid, the family did not get a fridge until I was 13 years old. As I recall, none of us ever went down with food poisoning. I suppose the way to look at it is that there is a still a fridge, but it is on the retailers' premises.

As has been said, a bucket of water will keep the milk cool. You could try putting the butter in a tupperware container and put that in cold water, too.

Items like yoghurt are usually kept in the fridge. But in hot countries (e.g. Turkey) they are not. My understanding of yoghurt is that the bacteria that sours the milk is good for you and actually zaps the bacteria that causes food poisoning. Also, it is made in warm conditions, so it seems logical to me that it need not be kept cool.

blackcrow

Hiya,

Please don't shoot me down in flames for this, ' tis only a thought... could you ask on freecycle? and put it back on when your new one is delivered? even if you were offered one that looked awful but you could clean and disinfect the inside to be usable for a few weeks?

BC x

candlepower_2

when I went camping with the school some 35 years ago before health and safety ,but with common sense.we did not have a fridge .
they dug a deep hole and placed a large tupperware type box in to which we put our wrapped perishables ie sauasages, cheese , bacon meat cooked /uncooked this was placed in the ground for safe keeping and sticks layed over and the turf replaced.
worked well.
I also can remember the day we got a smallfridgeand ice box at home.(Iwas able to enjoy milk for the first time as it was cold.
Mum would shopp daily or every other day keep thing in our not very cold pantry, have a marble slab etc, it is possible.
regards Candlepower

bevan840

I'm watching the freegle site up here but nothing come up yet, I'd also have a problem in getting it from and to the house unless they were willing to deliver it, thanks for all the idea's, be using the bucket full of water idea the most I think, or get a little electric cool box

WelshWoofer

Hi,
My fridge had decided to die and the new one isn't coming until Weds.
Luckily there's not too much in there as I am due to go shopping tomorrow so only a few things to throw away (some can be frozen/used today I guess).

I thought about borrowing my mum's coolbox to keep essentials like milk in - does anyone else have any fab ideas to tide us over?

Thank you!

Trinny

Not sure if this will work

Do you have neighbours who will store a few items for you - thinking of milk and butter.

Otherwise - do you have a freezer and is that working ok?

Can you stash some fridge items at your Mums house?

If you are stuck on fridge items to use up - post them here and the OS experts will be able to tell you how to use them up quickly.

Trin

Trinny

Also - not the nicest, but powdered milk might be an option for hot drinks

Trin