I am embarking on a 12 hr road trip to NC with my hubby and son. For the first 6 hour leg, I was planning on some sippy cups full of milk in a cooler, and a jug of apple juice to pour from in the car. Is there anywhere along the road where I could find small quantities of milk for the 2nd day? Usually he has 7 sippies a day alternating between milk, juice and water. How many should I fill with milk? Thanks!!
kbk823
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Just bring a pint of milk or even a gallon of milk, and put it in the cooler. Use a bigger cooler, and pack snacks and drinks for everyone. Save yourself some money and don't stop at fast food places along the road. When the ice melts (and you'll get more than 12 hours out of a bag of ice), drain the water out of the cooler, and buy another bag of ice from any gas station that you stop at. Bring 3 sippy cups, one for each juice, milk and water. It's not going to kill the kid if you don't sterilize the cups between use, just rinse them out when you can. Store the empty cups, especially the milk ones in the cooler between uses.
Rationality is lost
Dont fill the sippies, just bring a couple single serve bottles of milk with you. Like what you'd get at the gas station. Stuff those in the cooler. You can buy those all along the road at rest stops and gas stations, as well as juice. You probably dont really need the cooler at all- we never did. We just along the thruway and pick up another milk as needed.
If you fill the sippies and they arent used then you have dirty milk sippies that you cant get clean. Just rinse and reuse the milk sippy through the day, and fill a new one as needed.
Anonymous
Why not just bring a gallon of milk and a jug of juice and keep in the cooler on ice that should keep cold until for 12 hours. Bring a few empty sippies so you can have a clean one between rest stops. At rest stops clean used sippies for the nest leg of the trip.
angedelapitie
Fill 3 with milk for the first day. Then for the second day you can stop at a gas station and get little 8 oz serving bottles of milk in the drink coolers to fill his sippy with.
Meems
I'd use as little juice as possible, he doesn't need to have extra sugar if he's going to be restrained in a car. You can get small cartons of milk at nearly any gas station that has a convenience store attached. I'd just stock up on water and use that for the majority of the trip.