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We use some freezedried or dehydrated things too. Be careful if you have hypertension, though. A lot of freezedried foods are very high in sodium.

Hi, Jay's. We use the cricket pay-as-you-go service plan, paying $90 a month for 2 phones with the hotspot option with 15 gigs. We can drop more gigs as needed by buying an additional card, but I can only remember having to do it once in the last decade. You just have to make sure the phone has...

Makita makes a kettle that will heat soup or water that runs off one of their power tool batteries. You can also heat soups in a rice cooker powered by an inverter. Also, download fast food apps to find deals. We had roast beef & swiss subs with au jou Makita makes a kettle that will heat...

Tyvm for the advice. Not something I would have thought of.

Other than knowing to charge them with a trickle charger, I'm not terribly familiar with them.

Will definitely keep this in mind. Thanks.

Keeping the battery charged is my main concern. We run the inverter off the car battery & let the alternator charge it while running. We can't run a genny inside the van, & there isn't anywhere to put one outside it. But the deep cycle batteries do sound like a good idea. I've read some things...

I still need a snow shovel. Have went to sleep with clear sky & woke up to 30" of snow.

I made quesadillas in the Aroma just a few weeks ago. Was also surprised to discover I could brown meat in it despite reading several people online saying it was impossible in a rice cooker. It's a versatile, low wattage cooking tool, & very easy to clran. Will occasionally hook the air fryer up...

Alaska has high crime, especially theft. Our primary deterrences are a large firearm & an insanely territorial terrier/beardog cross.

The mosquitoes are so much worse in Alaska than in Texas & Louisiana. We also have literal clouds of noseeums. We use Thermacell & also a mosquito fogger around wherever we park. The Thermacell fuel pods can be refilled with a little modification & the chemical pads used can be resoaked & reused...

Thanks. We have already wintered in Alaska in a tent & have done 2 years here in a Subaru outback. Have used a gas genny for aux power. Had a larger Yeti at the time but it finally died. When we first came up 16 years ago we spent 3 years above the Arctic circle where we picked up a few tricks...

Thanks. I feel like I'm being paranoid. I've even speculated heat-shrinking some sort of barrier to the floor before adding flooring or having spray-on truck bed lining applied. We get the van in 2 weeks & will be racing the clock against the weather.

Thank you.