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I'm going to be at college for 12hrs, plus another 2hrs driving time.
If I were to keep some food in an insulated bag, APPROXIMATELY (to your best knowledge) how many hours max would it stay fresh for if:
-the food was reallly hot or frozen?
-it was just sorta cold?
Thanks.
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I found this for you. Hope it helps!
Lunch Bags & Boxes
The first thing you will need is a container in which to pack the lunch. It doesn't need to cost a lot of money. For adults a small cooler makes a great lunch box. Fred uses a medium sized cooler. He is usually gone for 24 to 48 hours, so he needs alot of food to keep him going. For children and teenagers, you can usually find inexpensive lunch boxes and insulated lunch bags at yard sales and thrift stores.
Small children often prefer a plastic lunch box with cartoon characters on the side. I suggest you buy these as cheaply as possible. They only last for a year or two before the children drop them or the latch breaks. At $6 to $10 a piece, buying brand new boxes has never been a good investment for me. I have purchased them new when I desperately needed the thermoses that came with them. After the plastic lunch box broke, I purchased replacements from my local Goodwill. I continue to use the same thermos year after year.
If the art work on an older lunch box is shabby, you can easily replace it. Use rubber cement to glue down a new picture (cut to size) and then cover the picture with clear contact paper. I've done this, and it lasted almost 2 years, until the lunch box cracked and became unusable. Amy D. describes the process in detail in the first book of The Tightwad Gazette.
For older children insulated lunch bags work best. They don't have the juvenile connotations of plastic boxes with matching thermoses, so older kids usually don't object to carrying them. I like them because they don't break when they get drop-kicked across the livingroom by a budding football player. Since they have soft sides, it is easier to fit more food and odd-shaped containers in them too. They usually have zipper closing and shoulder straps for carrying them. I buy the largest ones I can find because I find them easier to fill. Many modern insulated bags have several extra zipper pockets and sections on the outside to carry little extras like napkins, spoons and salt or pepper packets. My boys like these but they aren't really necessary. Purchased brand-new, insulated lunch bags cost between $5 and $15. If you wait until back-to-school-sales you may find them cheaper. Over the summer they can often be found at yard sales. Insulated lunch bags usually do not come with their own thermos, so you will have to use some you already have or buy them separately.
I found this for you. Hope it helps!
Lunch Bags & Boxes
The first thing you will need is a container in which to pack the lunch. It doesn't need to cost a lot of money. For adults a small cooler makes a great lunch box. Fred uses a medium sized cooler. He is usually gone for 24 to 48 hours, so he needs alot of food to keep him going. For children and teenagers, you can usually find inexpensive lunch boxes and insulated lunch bags at yard sales and thrift stores.
Small children often prefer a plastic lunch box with cartoon characters on the side. I suggest you buy these as cheaply as possible. They only last for a year or two before the children drop them or the latch breaks. At $6 to $10 a piece, buying brand new boxes has never been a good investment for me. I have purchased them new when I desperately needed the thermoses that came with them. After the plastic lunch box broke, I purchased replacements from my local Goodwill. I continue to use the same thermos year after year.
If the art work on an older lunch box is shabby, you can easily replace it. Use rubber cement to glue down a new picture (cut to size) and then cover the picture with clear contact paper. I've done this, and it lasted almost 2 years, until the lunch box cracked and became unusable. Amy D. describes the process in detail in the first book of The Tightwad Gazette.
For older children insulated lunch bags work best. They don't have the juvenile connotations of plastic boxes with matching thermoses, so older kids usually don't object to carrying them. I like them because they don't break when they get drop-kicked across the livingroom by a budding football player. Since they have soft sides, it is easier to fit more food and odd-shaped containers in them too. They usually have zipper closing and shoulder straps for carrying them. I buy the largest ones I can find because I find them easier to fill. Many modern insulated bags have several extra zipper pockets and sections on the outside to carry little extras like napkins, spoons and salt or pepper packets. My boys like these but they aren't really necessary. Purchased brand-new, insulated lunch bags cost between $5 and $15. If you wait until back-to-school-sales you may find them cheaper. Over the summer they can often be found at yard sales. Insulated lunch bags usually do not come with their own thermos, so you will have to use some you already have or buy them separately.
what key strengths can I use for a extremely flawed character?
Ruby
Suffers from addiction, Bit of a player and completely misunderstood because the character just can't communicate. Instead of trying to talk she just dumps the person. She also has a bad habit of pushing people away when they get to close or is scared of hurting them.
Answer
Make her the only person patient with her grandfather since he came to live with the family after his stroke.
Or she could be her mentally retarded brother's best friend and ally, the only person who treats him with the respect he deserves--and the respect she doesn't give others.
Or make her someone who's sympathetic toward and tries to help animals, treating them better than she does people.
Make her book smart despite her personal and social problems. Or extremely well read and thoughtful, although she can't be bothered to do the work at school.
Or she could be creative and artistic, mastering some difficult form of art teens rarely get into, like metal sculpture using welding.
Or she could be the replacement-mom, managing the household since her mother died/left/started drinking/got cancer, being almost a parent to younger siblings, doing all the housework, without bragging about it to anybody, just doing what has to get done.
Or she could be kind to the creepy kid who seems to be homeless, snubbing him at school but making sure he has a sandwich, a sleeping bag, or school supplies, so long as nobody sees her do it.
There are a lot of possible ways to be strong.
Make her the only person patient with her grandfather since he came to live with the family after his stroke.
Or she could be her mentally retarded brother's best friend and ally, the only person who treats him with the respect he deserves--and the respect she doesn't give others.
Or make her someone who's sympathetic toward and tries to help animals, treating them better than she does people.
Make her book smart despite her personal and social problems. Or extremely well read and thoughtful, although she can't be bothered to do the work at school.
Or she could be creative and artistic, mastering some difficult form of art teens rarely get into, like metal sculpture using welding.
Or she could be the replacement-mom, managing the household since her mother died/left/started drinking/got cancer, being almost a parent to younger siblings, doing all the housework, without bragging about it to anybody, just doing what has to get done.
Or she could be kind to the creepy kid who seems to be homeless, snubbing him at school but making sure he has a sandwich, a sleeping bag, or school supplies, so long as nobody sees her do it.
There are a lot of possible ways to be strong.
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