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Re: Dinner Budgeting
[Re: losaltsailor]
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10/28/2016 10:32 AM
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The BBQ at the elm is very good, and the band is excellent. Seems like we spent about 25 per person for 3 types of BBQ. You can spend less if you just get one meat. We typically eat 3 or 4 dinners onboard, all breakfast and lunch on board and dine out for the remaining dinners. For a crew of 8 we provision and might spend 900 for food, beer and liquor. We don't scrimp on the dining out or At the pool bar at scrub island for example. Total cost per person including provisions, bar bills, dining out, moorings, and 1 dock fees runs about 240 to 400 per person depending on the crew dynamics. The higher price crews might have drinks, a couple bottles of wine with dinner, appetizers and deserts, we weren't trying to save Money. Not sure if it is in the budget but you might cover some of the food cost for the kids and take that source of worry out of the equation.
FYI, the dock fee at Leverick bay is about the same as a mooring ball. Call nick for a Ttol discount. We enjoy Michael Beans at leverick. Also nick can hook you up with a rental car/truck for a trip to the baths and hog heaven for lunch. Have fun.
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Re: Dinner Budgeting
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10/28/2016 11:10 AM
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Many folks here poo-poo the idea, but others do as we have done, too. We bring a cooler with some frozen meats and some pre-cooked, frozen meals. This can be aggregated over some time, within anyone's normal food budget. When chicken "parts" are on sale, when pork chops or pork tenderloin is on sale, bingo. It is all fair game and grillable, and when it comes to provisioning on island, you fill in the sides at that point. Make a good sized potato or pasta salad.
Over the course of a charter, there is a good chance that you'll have one " dinner time" when the weather makes it nasty to dinghy ashore for dinner and everyone is happy to have a hot meal aboard. If you have a " stash" of chili, pulled pork, or beef stew, you are way ahead of " macaroni and cheese".
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Re: Dinner Budgeting
[Re: losaltsailor]
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10/28/2016 11:52 AM
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I don't recall how much the BBQ at Elm cost, but it is reasonable and the music is fantastic. Friday night BBQ at the Elm, then over to Quito's for music and dancing. Makes for a fun night.
We also bring a cooler of meals with us each year. We check this cooler like a piece of luggage. This allows us to prepare meals ahead of time, makes for no fuss meals on the boat.
We bring frozen meat for the grill; marinated, seasoned and ready to put on the grill.
I also bring prepared taco meat, we have taco's one night, the leftovers are good for taco salad, nachos, or more tacos
We have also brought homemade spaghetti sauce with meatballs. Quick meal, just heat up the sauce and boil the noodles. Great for a rainy night, or any time.
Colleen
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Re: Dinner Budgeting
[Re: losaltsailor]
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10/29/2016 08:00 AM
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www.polarbearcoolers.com Use ttol for the promo code and get 20% off. Great coolers, meat still frozen upon arrival to boat. Many here on the forum use them. I purchased 2 solarbear models.
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Re: Dinner Budgeting
[Re: losaltsailor]
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10/29/2016 08:32 AM
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Hardsided cooler. We also used a strap, and yes, TSA opened and checked it, and replaced the strap. No Issue.
Coming home, we used the cooler for dirty laundry, and it was where we also tucked a couple of bottles of Pussers rum. Again, no issue.
Most of the charter companies will give you a few bucks for a used cooler if you don't want to bring it home.
Our cooler didn't have wheels, but we found it would sit nicely on top of my duffel which does have wheels. Easy. We wheeled it up to EIS from Trellis, as some of our crew were staying another couple of nights.
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Re: Dinner Budgeting
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10/31/2016 01:31 PM
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warren460 said: Leverick Friday night jumbies cost around $35 pp. that was last year price as best as I can remember Then it was DEFINITELY the bar tab that got us that night - ha ha!! Another big polar bear cooler fan here - we bought 2 when they had a buy one get one free sale a few years ago. Use it boating all summer long up north here!
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Re: Dinner Budgeting
[Re: RickinAtlanta]
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11/02/2016 06:09 AM
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For transporting food the Polarbear is probably the most convenient and cost effective choice. I bought a Polar Bear cooler for my CRC house sitting trip in August. It did keep 30 pounds of tightly packed steak and shrimp frozen solid for 3 days but not such a good job with ice and drinks. Filled with about 15 pounds of ice and 12 previously chilled beers it only lasted about 30 hours in shade. Almost any hard cooler would do better than that.
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Re: Dinner Budgeting
[Re: GlennA]
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11/02/2016 12:17 PM
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GlennA said: For transporting food the Polarbear is probably the most convenient and cost effective choice. I bought a Polar Bear cooler for my CRC house sitting trip in August. It did keep 30 pounds of tightly packed steak and shrimp frozen solid for 3 days but not such a good job with ice and drinks. Filled with about 15 pounds of ice and 12 previously chilled beers it only lasted about 30 hours in shade. Almost any hard cooler would do better than that. So WHY did it take 30 hours to drink just 12 beers?? <img src="http://www.traveltalkonline.com/forums/images/graemlins/toast.gif" alt="" />
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