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Re: Frozen-meals-from home ideas
[Re: ggffrr11]
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01/08/2019 02:08 PM
01/08/2019 02:08 PM
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Cleobeach
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Anyone with any "dry ice" experience on this? We are flying out early am > SJU airport that night > don't get to the boat until evening day #2. Are they still hitting you with a "tax" at BVI customs on meat, etc? thx Several times, we went door-to-door 36+ hours with no thawing, food was frozen solid with no dry ice. The key to so pack the cooler with high density items that are VERY well frozen and make sure that cooler is packed tight.
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Re: Frozen-meals-from home ideas
[Re: Shifty]
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01/09/2019 10:58 AM
01/09/2019 10:58 AM
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CottageGirl
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We’ve brought taco meat, premade burgers, steaks, shredded cheese, cooked chicken breasts (for salads), bacon precooked. Heck our first trip down we brought 3 quiches! As for customs we always declare what’s in the cooler, estimate it’s value at $100. Once we were asked to pay $10.
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Re: Frozen-meals-from home ideas
[Re: ggffrr11]
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01/10/2019 04:52 PM
01/10/2019 04:52 PM
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IAmCdn54
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Anyone with any "dry ice" experience on this? We are flying out early am > SJU airport that night > don't get to the boat until evening day #2. Are they still hitting you with a "tax" at BVI customs on meat, etc? thx Only did the cooler thing on one of 3 trips. Saved $$ but it was a PITA schlepping it and our luggage. That said we did Toronto to CLT to STT to Tortola over 2 days. Stayed overnight in STT and ferried the next day to Tortola. I watched the CLT-STT baggage handlers load our cooler and noticed that the extra luggage straps i added were gone. TSA in Toronto or CLT had left a note in the cooler ("kilroy was here") but they kept the straps. On the return leg I duct taped new luggage straps to the cooler. ( I had taken extra straps to test as a "ladder" to get back into the dinghy after snorkeling...FAIL) Once on our boat we found all food was still rock solid. In addition to our frozen goods I had packed 2 sheets of Techni-Ice ( http://www.techniiceusa.com/ice-packs.html) that I had kept in our freezer for about 1 month. The theory is that somehow these sheets get colder than ice and stay frozen longer. That was our experience after a 2 day journey. I gave away most of the 12 sheets that I bought. Subsequent usage saw me cut 2 cubes out for my step-daughter's post nose-job cooling.
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Re: Frozen-meals-from home ideas
[Re: Shifty]
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01/14/2019 12:05 PM
01/14/2019 12:05 PM
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Posts: 202 Chesapeake, VA
FatDaddyK
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High quality, soft-sided coolers have treated me and my crew well for years. As mentioned, all items should be frozen rock-solid and packed tightly. Have gotten 30-hours out of them before thawing. The only food issue we ever had was in 2016 when the C&I folks wanted to have a long chat about the chicken breasts we brought down. They even wanted to see the receipt! Had the receipt; was a non-issue, and paid $10. Quality is the big difference with bringing your own foods. We like good steaks and certain specialty foods that are unavailable there, so bringing a few things down is no big deal.
Last edited by FatDaddyK; 01/14/2019 12:17 PM. Reason: Adding trip Ticker
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