Tips to Keeping Your Food Fresh
If you have the luxury of RV camping, Willers says you can store about one week's worth of fresh meat and produce in a tiny dormsize fridge or a giant cooler that campers often carry. To save on space, here are her healthy food tips to consider when storing perishable items for your camping trip:
1. Take food out of its original packaging and transfer it to your own packaging. For example, if you buy greens in a large tub, transfer the greens into a gallon-sized zip-lock bag and squeeze the air out of it to save on fridge space. Go green tip: Wash and reuse those zip-lock bags to minimize plastic use.
2. Before your trip, trim and store all fresh vegetables that require refrigeration in air-tight Tupperware containers along with a clean paper towel (or a microfiber towel to minimize use of paper products). Storing in an air-tight container with a paper towel makes a HUGE difference in how long the product will last, by resisting condensation that creates soggy, water-logged vegetables. It also saves on space.
3. Pre-cook! The simplest way to prep food is to bulk prep your main categories. Cook up a big batch of protein (i.e. chicken) and a big batch of starchy carbs (i.e. rice or quinoa). Once cooked, store in Tupperware containers.
According to Willers, “When you have these prepped staples on hand, you can easily mix up a single skillet meal in 15 minutes.” Precooked meals come together very quickly, and you save on trash and water.