traveling-use dry ice to keep frozen?

[Guest guest]

Hi everyone,

Can you take frozen food in a cooler with dry ice and have it remain

firmly frozen. If so for how long in cooler max? Does the airline

have a problem with this? Would I carry it on? How do you buy and

put dry ice in cooler safely?

I am traveling to Disney World on Saturday! I am so worried about how

to take food with me and explain the fact that all the other cousins

will be pigging out on junk food. They have very bad eating habits and

snack all day on whatever they want whenever they want. We are

staying in a 5 room house so it makes it pretty close for comfort. I

feel like we are eating alot of nuts and meat. We eat alot of veggies

too but they are not as excited-go figure.

We haven't written or kept up in a while life has been busy.

Hansen-partly SCD for 1 year +

Grace Hansen-4 years old-SCD also exclusively 1 year+Multiple delayed

food allergies/constipation bad off diet

Preston Hansen-does sister's diet although shows no signs

[Guest guest]

,

I would recommend that you just freeze all of the meat and baked goods

that you plan to take with you. Then on the way to the house from the

airport, just stop at a grocery store. There are plenty in Kissimmee.

Pick up fresh fruit, juice and the veggies that you need there. That

will save you a lot of packing space and if you take the meat and nut

goods frozen, I don't think you will need dry ice or anything. Just

pack the frozen food in a padded cooler. We found the grocery prices

to be similar to ours here and it sure saves a lot of packing space.

I don't think you'll have any trouble with the food at the airport.

We never have.

Have fun!

Jody

mom to -7 and -9

SCD 1/03

[Guest guest]

I think airlines do have a problem with dry ice in a cooler. (I seem to

remember that if the cooler is tightly sealed pressure can build up and

explode the cooler.) When my family travels, we pack our frozen food in a

cooler and check it as baggage. It does fine travelling about 15 hours, if

the cooler is *full* of frozen food; everything stays frozen hard. If we've

got empty room in the cooler after all over food is in, we either fill it

with crumpled newspaper or add frozen ice packs or a big tight-lidded

plastic jug of frozen water. The airline baggage checkers always question

us carefully about what's in the cooler and the main thing they seem to want

to know is that there's no dry ice in it.

Kayla