Help with lunchbox foods in the heat?
Hi all. This is my husbands first summer driving a delivery truck. I pack his lunch for him everyday, but we've run into some problems. The food is going bad before he can eat it! Not a good thing. The fact that his truck has no A/C doesn't help (it's over 100 most days here in Vegas).
I pack his lunch in a 16-can sized insulated soft cooler. Lunch usually consists of assorted plastic containers filled with cut up fruit, a salad with no dressing, trail mix (to snack on), and an entree or two (baked potatoe, pasta, grain pilaff, etc). He eats no dairy, so I don't include it in anything in the box. We are having the most difficulty with the fruits and salads. In the luchbox there is also 3-4 .5L bottles filled with fresh juices and/or chilled water. I also put in 4 or more frozen .5L bottles of water to keep things cool (as space allows).
Any suggestions on what to do? Would a hard-sided cooler make a difference? Anyone out there been in a similar situation?
You should get lunch mates! They are ice packs that are in their own container. I think they are some kind of gel on the inside, but anyway you put them in your freezer and they put them in lunch box or what ever you want to keep cool. They are made just so that they last longer then a frozen water bottle. I used to live in Texas and I would leave at like 5 in the morning, and they would be really really cold when I got back at 6pm they were no longer really cold, but still cool. Unless I set my lunch box directly in the sun, and it gets pretty hot in Texas. Maybe this will help you. I hope so. Oh by the way you can get them at most places that sell Lunch Boxes. I got mine from Wal*Mart. And i Never Used a soft lunch box, I always use a hard one I find they are better at keeping things cooler longer. I mean think about it like coolers you get to put drinks in and things, I don't know about but I have never seen a soft one.Well hope I have been able to help you. Best of luck!!!!!!!
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