Car Trip Meal Equipment
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- Опубликовано: 3 янв 2023
- We are adding a third way we plan to travel using Jim's new car and we will need new strategies for doing meals on the road. We show the equipment we plan to use to keep food cold, to heat up meals in the car, and show two examples of meals we plan to use.
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I watched an Amish family noshing on delicious treats, all neatly packed into a Samsonite Toiletry/Vanity Make-up case. I was so fascinated as these tiny plastic containers appeared, filled with nuts, crackers, sliced cheese, malted milk balls, Teddy Grahams, Cheese its, fruit cups, peanut butter, random cookies and who knows what else. The man nodded to me and smiled as I watch, eating my fig newtons. It changed everything. My thoughts on road trips, day tripping, nature walks... Why couldn't we posh, nosh on the go. I grabbed a partitioned small tackle box and made it my Snackle Box! I found a good sized decorative box at Dollar General for $5, in that I tucked a tiny cutting board, cutlery, napkins, salt and pepper, as well as some small plates. I tossed in my Coleman cook mug and a small multi fuel, stackable stove in a sack. A pour over coffee maker and some fresh coffee in a jar, sugar, tea bags and powdered creamer.
Love the idea of a small fridge, as I drive back and forth between West Virginia and Rhode Island, often.
That is so fantastic! I love what you have done!
I've got to see this!
Recent camping trip we packed jar salads, just dump and go. We also packed a jar with pho soup/cookedmeat without the water. All we needed to cook was boiling water. Why not use freeze dried meals? Add water and heat up in your travel oven. For all meals we used a large paper bowl, toss in trash when done, no dishes. I stored the used glass jars back in the cooler and when I got home they went right into the dishwasher. Our meals were stress free!
Love that idea! Thank you.
🧼 Washing dishes on the go. A tip I learned from my favorite Aunt Dorothy who sold Tupperware in the 1950s & 60s and took her children on many camping/fishing car trips all across America. After breakfast or lunch she would half fill her huge Tupperware bowl with soapy water, put the dirty dishes in, seal the lid then place the bowl in the back of the station wagon. The motion of the car caused the water to slosh around and “wash” the dishes. When they reached their next destination the kids only had to rinse the dishes.
I have a Tupperware bowl that was my car/hotel/camper sink for over 30 years. Two years ago I traded it in for the new 26 cup Tupperware bowl that has straight sides. It takes up less room and is deeper. It fits perfectly in one of those delivery meals zip bag with a small bottle of dish soap, a roll of paper towels, a kitchen towel and a small flannel backed plastic tablecloth.
Something similar may work for you on your future car trips. I am so excited for your new adventures.
Love that story! Thanks for sharing.
We bring our 3 qt instant pot to heat up food in hotel rooms
Great idea!
Your new wheeled cart/dolly will be great for taking the refrigerator and bluetti up into the hotel room to plug in at night. They will be handy, then, for making dinner in the room.
That's the plan! Thanks.
I used to drive a big truck and bought my cook ware in truck stops. I have a skillet, sauce pan, and an oven that looks like a lunch box. I also had a microwave. the cook ware is basically for a single person, but was large enough for when my husband joined me.
All are 12 volt.
Good to know! I had not thought to shop at truck stops, but that makes a lot of sense! Thanks for sharing.
Congratulations on your retirement!!! 🎉
Thank you!
You are so wonderful love your creativity you knock everyones excuse away who is older like myself love your gadgets be safe you and your hubby out there i am inspired to stretch myself and be adventurous as you and your hubby are
Congrats on your retirement
Thank you so much for your kind remarks.
You are welcomed you inspire us all to action and adventures
Thank you.
Have you figured out the power requirements of the oven to the capacity of the Bluetti? Also we have one of those refrigerator/freezers. Suggestion, Plug it in the night before at the house and get it as cold as possible before you leave. It takes these units some time to cool, so starting it off very cold from the house 110V will save you power draw on the battery of the car.
We did use the car oven on the Bluetti for 3 hours on a day trip with lots of power to spare, so it works perfectly. Great idea to pre-cool the fridge! thanks.
This is a great video! I always pack lots of food and healthy snacks for road trips. It’s fun to plan meals and snacks for different trips. Sometimes I pre cook taco meat, and prep all the fixings. It’s an easy, satisfying meal for both my husband and I. The only challenge I always run into is keeping the coffee in the thermos hot for many hours. Sometimes we can’t find good coffee on the road 😅.
Thank you for sharing!
Hi Pam and Jim, have to let you know your dinner roll recipie makes the best travel sandwiches! They require a toothpick bc my husband really packs a sandwich, but we love the portion size and he can drive and eat his 1/2 sandwich or eat multipules when we take a break at a rest stop. We can pack cheese cubes, cutie oranges, or other seasonal fruit, veggie sticks with salad dressing already on them..we can go for 5-14 hrs with just quick stops to use the Lu. Drinks are in travel cups with lids, water, gatoraide, ginger beer(ale), etc. Can't wait for more of your adventures!
Love those ideas! Thank you so much for sharing.
Make sure you take a separate dish pan. Don't use the coffee pot either in a hotel room. Take your disinfectant! I have very good reasons for this advice. What a great setup.
Great advice. We always travel with our steramine spray bottle!
@@trailgrazers3690 steramine was my 1st purchase thanks to your channels. Best purchase. Funny as I used to work in a kitchen and a bar and had completely forgotten about steramine. Thank you for the reminder🌷
How exciting! I'm going on a car trip next week! I'm a backpacker/minimalist camper, so I'm figuring, what the heck, it's just like that, except my truck will be my tent. I'm the road trip queen actually. I'm more comfortable with that than flying right now.
I use my backpacking burner & make delicious pressed coffee. Bars, nuts & dried fruit for breakfast. Canned meat, dehydrated veggies, and minute rice/pasta/ramen/couscous for quick meals.
You sound like a true adventurer! Thanks for sharing what you do.
I have a friend who has a cooker like yours. She cooked a pork roast when she came to visit. It was wonderful!
Wow--that is impressive. Thanks.
Great equipment!
Thanks. We hope it works for us in the way we think it will!
Cant wait for the next video.
Glad to feel that way!
I have a fridge similar to that one and I have used it for business travel as I don't go out to restaurants every day to eat. Works great. I also have a pot and hot plate for in the room. The 2nd reason I got it is for my husbands medicine that needs to be refrigerated. It doesn't use a lot of power and worked during the deep freeze here in Texas in 2021. It will work great if there are summer power outages as well.
I had not thought about medications needing refrigeration while on the road--thanks! I enjoyed reading your post.
@@RoseRedHomestead My husband is diabetic and uses Trulicy, which needs refrigeration. There may be other meds in the same catagory, I'm not sure. This is the only one we have concern about.
It is always good to think ahead like that. Thanks.
Can't wait for the road trips. See you two get away. Great containers and setup. Have fun.
Thanks, Donna. We are really looking forward to that.
E only travel with our 5th wheel. My husband doesn’t usually eat 3 meals, only 2. This causes me trouble bc I am a3-meal-a-day person. I think this plug-in oven/warmer will work great for us. I am going to follow your constant example and try it out a few times at home and hopefully be ready for our next trip with me able to have a healthy lunch instead of survival crackers and fuel station pickin’s. THANKS
You are welcome. Jim and I face that as well. He is not a breakfast person, but I am trying to convert him now that I am home in the mornings! LOL
How exciting! Can’t wait to hear how the “test run” goes. 😊
Us too! It has been so rainy and cold here. Hopefully it will dry out a bit next week and we can try it all out!
We did a road trip from MI to FL in late September, early October. We packed freeze dried meals, and frozen meals. We purchased a lifetime cooler, like a yeti but 1/4 th the price for the size...but warning these are heavy coolers, even empty. Because it was so close to hurricane Ian, we even had to pack 12 gallons for cooking and drinking. So glad that I checked with the owner of the airbnb about water. He said that the city well had be compromised and they were still boiling water. Great trip, with healthy food.
So glad to hear that! Way to go!
Love this subject!
So glad to hear that.
Boka Saul rice is a type of rice that can be prepared by soaking it without cooking. Do you mind considering a review of this product as it pertains to traveling, preparedness, and overall nutrition? I believe it may also be called Komal Saul rice.
Thank you for all that you do, Pam and Jim. ❤
I will look into it. I have never heard of that type of rice!
This us a really fun channel. I am new. Im so glad i found you
You have alot of energy. Thank you..
We have a good sized motor home, and I have always taken food to cook, but we usually ended up eating out! In February we’re going to Florida for four weeks, I have my new freeze dryer and am doing meals that we can just add hot water to and eat. Soups and stews mostly. I also have some canned chicken and meats now as well that I will take. We will probably still eat out a few meals but it will be healthier for us to eat our own food! Good luck with your trips and can’t wait to see how it goes. I plan on being home in March to start my outside garden and get some flower and vegetable seeds starting going in greenhouse. We have a big greenhouse and have had fresh veggies this winter. . All these fun things we can do when we’re retired. I hope our health and yours holds out so we can ck continue to have fun !
That sounds like a great plan! Enjoy your trip.
Retirement looks fabulous on you Pam! I’m enjoying all your videos even though I don’t comment, I’m here. Blessings for the year 2023….😊 oh! I see this was 6 days ago….I was on vacation too and I’m catching up. I took a break from utube and everyone.
I am catching up as well. Thanks for your kind words and it is reassuring to know you are there! I have always appreciated your comments.
I use a 12v tea kettle and a 12 v Hot Logic and a mini USB pod coffee maker (or pour over or instant). With hot water and the Hot Logic you can cook most things, especially if using freeze dried or dehydrated foods. We use a cooler and wrap it in blankets. McDonald's has good sized bags of ice for $1. If we stay in motels we get ice from their machine and fill zip 2 gallon bags. We like the mini packets of boiled eggs, pickles and olives for quick snacks.
Sounds great!
That was fun 😄
Thanks!
Wonderful information, we hope to travel the Oregon west coast in the last spring (June). You have given all of us ideas to save money while traveling. Thank you
Glad it was helpful! Thanks for watching.
That got me laughing. Canning duh!! Lol
Yes, I couldn't believe I forgot to mention that!
What nifty devices! I’m going to check those out…♥️
We just tried them out on a trip this week and they worked great! We will show that on a video soon.
I have celiac and have been gluten-free and dairy-free for 36 years. I take my food wherever I go. I love the Thermos brand 2 or 3 cup stainless steel thermoses. The 2 cup has a folding spoon in the lid. It's easy to preheat with boiling water either on a camp stove or in a microwave at a hotel. Preheat the thermos. Then heat the soup and pour it in. They stay hot for 8+ hours. It's easy to do that at breakfast time and have it ready for lunch. Last weekend my husband was with some family members ATVing. Along with the rest of his food, I had hot soup. (It was a cold day.). Another thing that I do is I have a very small 3-day cooler. I can put frozen food in it with dry ice and it will stay frozen for days. It's fun seeing what you are doing for travel. I always have to take my food everywhere as I react to many of the junk food ingredients in gluten-free foods so I'm always looking for ideas. All eight members of our family are gluten-free. Everyone has there own thermos.
Thank you so much for sharing what you do. This is great information.
I shopped at a Military store and found a couple of food containers similar to the one you got. It has the utensils and two level of containers that fit nicely together. I use for work lunches when I do my long hours of home care. The most important element I love…no leaking!!
That sounds fantastic. I had not of shopping there for some of the things we would like. Thank you for that idea!
Beautious detail on the cupboard doors. Love the information except for using plastic containers to store and heat food.
Thank you!
That sounds like a great plan for your car trips. Where do you cook the meals to have on the return trip? Or do you pack like mountain house heat-water pouch meals or salads, etc for that? Do you take the fridge, bluetti and car oven into hotel at night since theft is so common and also to recharge? Thank you for the ideas!!!
I worry about theft too
Yes, we certainly will be taking them into the hotel room. We would need to charge the Bluetti for sure, as well.
Can’t wait to follow your adventures!
That sounds great!
We got this same one! Hadn't seen your review until we watched the Zion video today.
We did get an adaptor for our oven, so we have the option of using a regular plug or cigarette lighter plug.
We haven't used ours yet. So happy we got the same one. Makes me feel like we made a good choice!
It certainly works great for us. And it holds food for both of us as well. We tried a different one that did not have enough room in it.
This may not be quite the direction you're going with this, but we've really gone back to road trips. It was something we did when I was growing up and have fond memories so we just readopted the practice. Back then, we didn't eat in a lot of restaurants, Mostly because we were kids and dad didn't want to stop every three hours. So mom packed food.
One of my favorite tricks is to pick up a protein box from Starbucks, Keep it in my travel case which is semi insulated so it keeps it cool. Since I'm my mother's daughter, I keep the containers and re- use them..making my own protein boxes. They seem to be just the right size and they're very healthy.
Pacific northwest? I grew up in Bend.
That sounds great! We are headed up to Tri-Cities and then Seattle sometime this summer.
Hi, we recently bought a plug in cooler and love it. The car oven is brilliant. We have to travel 900 km due to a death in the family and wished I knew about them. But we will take food and eat it cold if we run into any issues along the way. But I think I will be ordering one of them. Thank you for all your great ideas. ❄️🇨🇦❄️
You are so welcome, Lyn. So glad it gave you some ideas.
So sorry for your loss. Safe travels and Blessings🌷
@@sharonjones7674 aww thanks Sharon…💕
I’m so excited you did a video like this. Such great ideas. I love road trips! I hope you enjoy retirement.
Thank you so much!!
Wonderful!!
Love all of it!!
Havfun!!
Thank you!
If you have a butane stove, a thermal cooker and a small box of basic kitchen utensils...you can have food cooking in the thermal cooker as you travel all day.
Yes, we have also done that and it works great.
nice video😍😍😍😍
Thanks 🤗
Just wanted to say, "Congratulations on your recent retirement!!" We two are empty nesters and are trying to plan our next year of "glamping"(as I like to call it). We used to tent camp i.e. roughin it, lol, when our children were young, but now it luxury all the way, baby! Those two products have sparked my interest!!
For 14 years, I was a school bus driving and then eventually took a library aide position in 2007-08 until 2020 when I retired. I knew by the first two RoseRed videos I watched, that you just had to be an educator by the way you were explaining everything. I, as others have commented before me, would've loved to have been there in your classroom! Keep pedaling through it, lady!
Thank you for your kind words--we appreciate that.
Instant pot makes a dual mini designed for two people which would make it really easy for you to prepare some of your freeze dried meals for dinner in your hotel room.
Yes, that certainly would work. Thanks.
I have a couple bentgo salad containers. They hold about half a bag of salad mix and have a tray for toppings, a container for dressing and a spork. I use them for work lunches all the time. Also a lot of the little mini fridges made for a dozen sodas or makeup storage have car adapters too, I have one that can be used to cool or warm things.
Good to know! Thanks.
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Love love love the car warmer/oven. Showed this to the hubby who loves it as well and said "we need one of those"
He also said that could be a great at home warmer if the grid goes down and we are too lazy to use some of our other options. How I asked. Well we have that great brand new marine battery it will be nothing to hook that warmer/oven to it and just cook/heat on the counter.
Got to just love a man who is a thinker. Jack of all trades type guy. So I thought I would share his thought.
We have other options for heating food but this just adds another option that can stay home or travel too.
Thank you both.🌷
Fantastic! Great ideas.
Don't forget your steramine, if unable to wash, spray with steramine until you can.
We always carry it! Thanks.
Great video, thank you both. Please excuse my social media tech ignorance , but when I log into Trail Grasers it shows me a list of 6 videos, I have only just noticed beside your TG logo that you have made
26 videos. Same happens in RR . Maybe this explains why some of your videos have a lot more views than others. Non tech like myself only watching what YT put in front of us🙄 on sites that we subscribe to.
If you go directly to our channel, all of our videos will show up. The link is in the video description.
Thank you , just figured it out, I definitely go directly to your channel as I am subscribed but I have just realised that I stay on the ‘Home’ page and only see a few videos that appear there. I have only just ‘seen’ the video ‘button’ and clicked it 🙈🙄. My goodness a whole new world on YT😂❤️
Hey you wonderful woman, and Jim too, could you do an air fryer tutorial? I just got my first air fryer.
We have a couple of videos using an air fryer. I am fairy new at it as well.
You guys are living my best life! Unfortunately, my husband has traveled all his work life and is adverse to doing so now that he doesn't have to. I'm so happy for you! I hope you will share some of your adventures! Happy travels!
Thank you so much. We will be happy to share our experiences with you!
Indeed! We used a car fridge many years ago. So much easier than ice and ice chest. It eventually quit so I'm back to ice chest but my trips are mostly 1 long 10 to 11 hour travel day and the same trip back home with a stay of 4 days to 2 weeks in between. This time I packed Taco soup in 2 half gallon jars, leaving a good gead space for elevation change, in my ice chest. Makes a great microwavable lunch for the 3 of us for the 3 to 4 days we are here. I brought a box of crackers to go with the soup, a loaf of banana bread and some banana nut muffins for breakfasts ( both banana flavored but so different), and a batch of brownies for dessert. We are eating 1 meal a day out. We are at a house. I could cook but don't want to spend the time doing it or the cleanup. It's a break from the norm, makes it a vacation of sorts even though we are taking care of some business. The glass mason jars handled the soup perfectly in the ice chest. I put water bottles between as a cushion.
Sounds fantastic! Thanks for sharing.
How will you power up the bluetti to keep the fridge going?
The Bluetti will run the fridge all day. At night we will plug it in in the hotel room. Great question!
How’s life?-dear~Bravo,that is fantastic masterpiece. see you on my side! :)
Thank you.
I don't know if it is only myself, but I cannot see any of the products offered. All I can see are the headings.
Some others have also mentioned that while most people are able to see them. You can check your privacy settings and ad settings--some people say that is the problem.
Question: did you happen to put one of your handicap monitors inside the “oven“ to see to what temperature it registers?
Yes, it got up to 165°F, which is plenty hot for warming up food.
Does the plastic hold up to the heat? Wouild it leach into the food? I have one of the mini lunch boxes that can be plugged into the car to heat food in our BOB, but we also take on road trips! Saves money!
We just did a little trip and used them and they did fine. They were quite hot when done, but still in find shape.
I don’t know how I missed this!! 😊
So what is this brand you are using for your fridge and oven? Thank you.
You can find both of them in our Amazon store if you wish to check them out. Just click on the store link at the top of the page. roseredhomestead.com
Could you use aluminum foil to line the containers so you don't have to do dishes?
That is a thought! Thanks.
If you can't wash you might want to try disposables.
Thank you.
I can’t find your store on Amazon. Is there a link?
It is not on Amazon. You access it through our website. Just click on the link at the top of the page. We have one for each of our 2 channels. roseredhomestead.com
Thanks Pam & Jim! My wife and I do 1-3 day car trips often, so I found this informative. I
'm going to mention again that I am unable to see your Amazon store. I've tried on two different laptops and three different browsers as well as mt iPhone. I can see all my other YT subscriptions Amazon stores, just not yours. Is it just me, or are others having trouble too? Is it searchable on the Amazon site? I have been unsuccessful in my approach. Instead of reposting the items from Amazon on your web site, can we get the link to your Amazon Store on the Amazon site?
That is crazy. Most people can see the items, but there are a few others who cant. We have been advised it may have to do with privacy settings or settings having to do with ads.
@@trailgrazers3690 OK, good to know! I'll check things on my side better.
I've heard of people putting their food on top of the motor while driving.
For what purpose? I don't get that...!
@@trailgrazers3690 to cook the food
Oh my...I haven’t thought about cooking or warming food on the truck motor for years. Our large family loved to camp and travel with our truck and camper but some meat meals required a larger oven then we had in the camper. I would put a meal together and wrap it in foil and my husband would place it on a flat spot on top of the motor. We would check it when we stopped for gas. We had read about that little trick in Trailer Life magazine. 😊
Yes
I do not feel safe heating in plastic. No matter what they say about it being safe.
Then you shouldn't do it! It is important to trust your own instincts.