What do you buy at your "grocery stop"?

[paduncan]

we bought a styrofoam cooler at Publix in Nov. for $2.99, I had priced and looked at collapsable coolers before we left but never found one under $20 that was comparable in size to styrofoam ones. If you expect to check right in, I wouldn't bother buying ice (unless you have ice cream or something), the hotels always have plenty of ice.
We bought milk, juice, multipacks of cereal, bananas, case of water, soda, juice boxes, small things of snacks, crackers, ziplock bags. Next time I would also buy sandwich fixings. We all got so tired of the pizza/hot dogs/fries options for lunch -- I know there are other foods at the parks, but these were the most readilyavailable w/o hunting around.

 

[whozit]

hopskip:

Check at one of the large sporting goods stores in your area. I bought one at the local Sports Authority store, the brand name was "California Innovations" and it said it would hold 24 cans of soda plus ice (they were also available in 12 can, 36 can and 48 can sizes). The 24 can size held 2 half gallon cartons of milk, a half gallon carton of juice, 10 8oz containers of yogurt, block of cheese and ziplocs full of ice to keepit all cold....and there was room to fit in a few pieces of fruit and a few juice boxes too. If you can't find one in your area, I did a search on the net and found the following web address:

http://www.sunwear.com/california_innovations.html

They have these collapsible coolers for sale at this website.

whozit