Eating Well With A Tiny Fridge
Eating Well With A Tiny Fridge
Eat great meals—and go up to three weeks between grocery store trips, even with a tiny refrigerator on your boat or RV. Real-life tested how-to.
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Enjoy Great Meals
Imagine having everything you need to create satisfying, delicious meals—even when it’s been weeks since your last grocery stop and your refrigerator is about the size of a typical bar fridge. With Eating Well With A Tiny Fridge, you’ll discover how to make the most of your small refrigerator, safely store food outside of it, and spend less time worrying about provisions and more time enjoying your adventures.
Whether you’re exploring remote destinations, taking extended trips, or simply looking to make life easier aboard, this course enables you to confidently store fresh ingredients, reduce waste, and savor the freedom of traveling further without sacrificing great meals.
- Maximize Your Refrigerator Space: Use your tiny fridge effectively with real solutions that make every inch count.
- Store Food Without Refrigeration: Learn how to safely keep produce, dairy, and more fresh outside the fridge.
- Plan for Longer Trips: Go up to three weeks without a grocery stop while still enjoying real, satisfying meals.
- Tame the Grocery Struggle: Spend more time exploring and less time shopping.
- Avoid Food Waste: Stop losing food to spoilage or improper storage.
- Step-by-Step Online Course: Learn how to reorganize your fridge, make the most of limited space, and store commonly refrigerated foods outside the fridge. Over 80 photos guide you through every step.
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Companion Ebook – Storing Food Without Refrigeration: A 229-page resource packed with practical advice and detailed instructions for storing food without refrigeration. This updated 3rd edition (September 2024) includes:
- How to safely store fresh meat, seafood, produce, dairy, and more
- Over 60 main dish ideas and 40+ recipes for everyday meals
- Tips for buying and using non-refrigerated ingredients
- A handy chart of produce, from shortest to longest-lasting
- Techniques for making sour cream, yogurt, ricotta cheese, and more
- Guidance on shopping, meal planning, and provisioning for longer trips
- A four-day sample meal plan and additional meal ideas
- Provisioning Spreadsheet: Includes detailed instructions on calculating the amounts of food and ingredients you’ll need for any trip.
This course isn’t just a collection of tips—it’s a proven system, developed and refined over 17 years of cruising and living aboard with a tiny fridge. Carolyn Shearlock, your instructor, combines real-world experience with practical, time-tested strategies to help you use your fridge differently and enjoy better meals wherever your travels take you.
- Immediate Access: Get started right away with a login link provided on your purchase confirmation screen. Prefer to start later? Login details are also emailed to you.
- Lifetime Access: Revisit the course whenever you need it, including all future updates.
- On Your Schedule: Complete the course at your own pace—no set times or deadlines.
- Clear and Concise: Primarily text with helpful photos and diagrams to make every step clear.
Carolyn Shearlock has 17 years of experience cruising and preparing meals with a small refrigerator. Over those years, she developed and refined techniques to make the most of limited fridge space and store food safely outside of refrigeration.
As a seasoned cruiser, Carolyn has sailed over 14,000 miles in the Sea of Cortez, Pacific Mexico, Central America, Florida, and the Bahamas. She’s the author of The Boat Galley Cookbook and Storing Food Without Refrigeration and an instructor at Cruisers University at the Annapolis Boat Shows.
Carolyn’s course is designed to help you spend more time enjoying your travels and less time worrying about your fridge or your meals.
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How You'll Access Eating Well With A Tiny Fridge
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Start right away with the login link on your confirmation screen.
Prefer to start later? Login details will also be emailed to you.
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All online, no shipping
On your schedule, no set times or deadlines
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Written format with helpful pictures—no fluff and no videos
Lifetime access including all updates
At The Boat Galley, we have one mission: to help you cruise with confidence.
As liveaboard cruisers, we understand the challenges and questions that come with boat life. That’s why we create practical products and courses designed to tackle the same issues we’ve faced ourselves—making your life on the water easier, safer, and more enjoyable.
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Raved About By Rhon N. . . .
"Carolyn's ideas and new techniques about storing food without refrigeration and making the most of a tiny refrigerator on the boat is a treasure house of knowledge."
Verified Purchaser, Eating Well With A Tiny Fridge
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Meet The Boat Galley Team
At The Boat Galley, we’re all cruisers. We know the joys—and the challenges—of boat life. The steep learning curve, costly mistakes, and hours spent searching for answers can be overwhelming. We’ve been there. That’s why we’ve created practical tools, trusted resources, and real-world guides to help you skip the frustrations and focus on enjoying your cruising life.
- Founder of The Boat Galley
- 17 years liveaboard cruiser
- US, Mexico, Bahamas, Central America, Virgin Islands, Turkey
- Cruisers University instructor
- Cruising Guide creator
- 6 years living aboard and cruising
- US East Coast from Florida Keys to Maine and Bahamas
- Ex-Air Force; singlehander
- Provisioning guru; podcaster
- On & off living aboard since 1992
- Atlantic crossing; US, Caribbean, and Bahamas
- Years of cruising with kids
- VHF pro and frugal cruiser
- Cruiser and delivery captain
- US East Coast, Bahamas, Haiti, and Caribbean
- Cruisers University instructor
- Creator of Cruising With Your Dog
- 7 years cruising with Honey
- US East Coast and ICW
- Part of the Go Pet Friendly team
- 15+ years writing about dogs
- Graphics designer
- 8 years living aboard
- US East Coast to SE Caribbean
- Design and layout for all printed products
- Social media coordinator
- Pacific Ocean: Seattle, WA to New Zealand, incl. French Polynesia
- Complete newbie to sailing prior to her 11,000 nm voyage
- Boatshow booth "mom"
- Sabbatical and part-year cruiser
- US, Bahamas, Caribbean
- Family cruising New England to southern Caribbean
Curious about our story and what drives us? Learn more about us here.
I haven't taken the time to read the whole article, but have edited and printed the provision sheet. It's very helpful. Thank you for making this available.
I especially liked the storage ideas for items that don’t need refrigeration. Frees up lots of space
This module is just the ticket for offering up an excellent overview of the subject. Great insight and some surprising items as well. Thanks for a great product.
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