Before my camping trip last week I wrote about how I was not ready and that packing was a last minute frenzy of tossing stuff into our vehicle, heading out the door, and hoping for the best. We did pretty good and only forgot a few things, namely our camera, tiki torches and hot dogs.

Thanks to modern technology, you will be reading this blog post while I am at Governor Dodge State Park in Wisconsin where I will have remembered to take the hot dogs in my fridge, plus my camera and tiki torches.

Forgetting food in my refrigerator and freezer that I have purchased for camping is something I do quite regularly but a fellow camper I was chatting with last week told me how she remembers to bring all her food. She saves the plastic shopping bags/sacks from the grocery store and puts everything she wants to take camping inside those bags and then places them in the refrigerator or freezer.

Then, when it is time to pack the camper fridge or coolers, she just opens the fridge or freezer door, grabs the plastic grocery bags and has everything she needs.

I thought, “how clever!” It’s a simple and easy solution to help make packing for camping trips faster and easier.

Now I’ll get to enjoy a fire roasted hot dog or two this week and maybe a chili cheese hot dog pudgie pie too because my hot dogs are “in the bag!”