Coolbox Recommendations

[MrsWombat]

We are going camping for 4 nights with 2 adults and 2 children, no EHU, and need a cool box that will keep fresh milk/butter/bacon etc cold. Any recommendations?

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Off camping this summer and landed here looking for ways to keep your food and drinks chilled for long periods? We’ve rounded up the best cool boxes as recommended by Mumsnet users. We hope you find it useful.
MNHQ

A Coleman Xtreme.

These, like the more expensive but fabulous Icey Tek, are high performance’passive’ cool boxes, and if you pre-chill, put stuff in ore-frozen, add ice or ice packs, and don’t leave it open or let the kids keep opening it, will keep stuff really cold for 4 days.

Or just get a regular cheaply cooler and keep changing the ice packs if the campsite has a freezer to use.

We have a Colman xtreme too.
I just couldn't justify the price of icey-tec and they look a more awkward shape to pack.

Thank you both! I've been looking at the xtreme and the icey-tec and couldn't justify the price difference either. I will definitely pre-chill with some frozen 2l water bottles.

Do you have electric hook up? If so, I recommend the Amazon Basics electric cool box. It has served us well x

We have the Coleman 28qt xtreme, new last year. It was excellent. Kept things cool beautifully. The campsite weren’t swapping ice packs so we had to make the cool last. I covered it in a couple of towels if we were out for the day (it was outside the tent). Also top tip for milk, we kept it in a thermos overnight to keep it really chilled.
If you are going to keep big bottles of ice in there, make sure you get a good large one, as it will take up more space than you think!

I have 2x Icey Teks that are awesome but have also heard good things about the Coleman.

Whichever you choose you do need to become the 'coolbox police' for your trip:

Nobody opens the coolbox without permission.

Never leave the lid open.

Ensure that no one tries to put warm wine into the coolbox to attempt to chill it (DH I am looking at you...)

And pre-chill really well for longer than you think, chill anything that's going into it, freeze as much as possible, try to keep it full.