I keep a bag of roasted soy nuts, dry roasted edamame, and raisens in my
purses for emergencys.  Not only is it yummy but it is really satisfying for
a long time.  Also - fruit?  Have a great weekend!
Teri

We just spent 5 days living out of coolers.

Granted - we have the 150gallon, superinsulated cooler.   We load that
with ice and 1 block of dry ice to super freeze the ice and that
pretty much lasts all weekend long.   That cooler houses the foods -
especially the parishables.  

The other cooler is your run of the mill day cooler on wheels.   This
we had to fill with 2 bags of ice each day.   It housed the non
parishable drinks. (water, soda, juice, poweraide, etc).

Of the foods we brought this was pretyt much my list:
Meat:
3 frozen boneless, skinless chicken breasts
1 frozen bag of hotdogs
3 frozen beef patties (burgers
2 frozen - pre-prepared beef shishkbobs
2 frozen pre-prepared pork shishkbobs

Veggies/salad mixes:
6 small pre-boiled red potatos
6 preboiled eggs
celery
carrots (presliced)
1 bag broccoli coleslaw mix
2 bags mixed veggies (broccoli, carrots, cauliflower)
2 cucumbers
1 pint cherry tomatos
1 bag premix salad mix
1/2 box pre-boiled whole wheat pasta

Fruit:
Grapes
Pears
apples
peaches

Snacks
1 bag barbque potato chips
2 bags of soy crisps.  1 bbq, 1 garlic flavored
granola bars
fig newtons

Lunches:
1lb deli sliced turkey
1lb deli sliced american cheese
1 block pepper/jack cheese
1 block tomatobasel/colby cheese
the mini snack boxes of tuna and crackers.
1 loaf low fat bread.

Breakfast foods:
1 dozen eggs
1 package of bacon
2 boxes of cereal (choice of the boys)

Condiments:
Miracle Whip
Mustard
Ketchup
Garlic/Italian/Ceaser type salad dressing
salt/pepper and other seasonings for the meats.

This was basically the list.  There may be a few others I missed.  But
in general this is it.    Mind you - in 5 days we didn't come close to
consuming all this food.   We came back with about half of what we
left with.   The only meat we returned with were the hotdogs and
leftover grilled chicken.   But we came back with alot of the salad
fixing leftovers, as well as fruit, and most of the snacks.

The bag of bbq chips came back more than 1/2 full.  and one bag of the
soycrisps was never opened.    

When we camp or travel I will precook the salad stuff and put it in
containers, so all I have to do on the road is to mix in the fixings
and create the salads.    We had coleslaw, potato and pasta salads
available.

If you have a well insulated cooler and keep it iced down well, and
put the chicken in a water tight container, it should keep.    If I
can't bring frozen meats that I can cook, then I usually try to eat
the most parishable foods the first days and leave the stuff like
hotdogs and other preservative packed foods for the later days that
can handle slightly less cool conditions for longer periods.

Oh, and the last time I had food poisoning of any kind was about 15
yrs ago when I ate a can of soup at my sister's house.   I've never
gotten sick off food that has been stored by myself.   And I'm one for
keeping leftovers for a week in the fridge before throwing them out
over eating them.

I'm a big fan of apples and wasa crackers with peanut butter.  When we
go out of town I usually bring a bunch of apples for myself and I often
bring some pb and wasa crackers as well.  It sounds like you more or
less have it covered though.  I'd bring yogurt, apples, wasa crackers,
pb, luna bars, oatmeal, hot pot and maybe some string cheese.  I would
probably toss in a few peaches for the first day but I don't think that
they travel that well so probably no peaches for any of the other days :-)

Good idea to take food with you.

Is your cooler a big cooler, for trunks of cars, or a little handbag
type cooler? Will you be able to buy ice to replace the melted ice?

Try to cook your chicken thoroughly, chill it right away in a clean
closed ziploc bag, and then put in the cooler, without opening the
ziploc bag. There is going to be very few bacteria this way, and so
the process of spoliation will take longer. Since you want to grill
the bird, make sure that it reached 180 degrees inside, that's
especially important when you don't eat it right away.

If there is still ice in the cooler and the chicken is cold, it is
unlikely that it went bad.

If your sense of smell is good, you should be able to detect when the
chicken goes bad, also. Eat chicken first and nuts/cheese on the
second day. Vegetables can easily handle a couple of days out of a
regrigerator, also.

i