08-11-2014, 10:19 AM
As Carey said, packing the frig and freezer with home made ice-packs really helped keep the food cold. The frozens stayed frozen during our outage.
I was using plastic bottles, but my son came up with the idea to use zip-lock (with zipper closure) gallon freezer bags full of water, which we layered in one side of our bottom drawer style freezer. This provided for maximum frozen power with no wasted air space between the way there is with bottles. Also it makes for a lot of storage using one little box of bags as opposed to saving bottles.
The bottles I used I cleaned first and filled with drinking water that was filtered. As things thawed, they would provide cold delicious drinking water.
I was using plastic bottles, but my son came up with the idea to use zip-lock (with zipper closure) gallon freezer bags full of water, which we layered in one side of our bottom drawer style freezer. This provided for maximum frozen power with no wasted air space between the way there is with bottles. Also it makes for a lot of storage using one little box of bags as opposed to saving bottles.
The bottles I used I cleaned first and filled with drinking water that was filtered. As things thawed, they would provide cold delicious drinking water.