Baking tins (1 of each). Plastic plates and glasses. These have worked out great. They save weight and don’t break. We bought one type of each pan (steamer, saucepan, large frying pan, small frying pan, small sauce pan). You can see that we like to cook. However, a wok would have been useful! We bought a toaster almost immediatly and it’s been essential! Later on we bought a crock pot and this has been excellent, especially if you’re plugged in somewhere for a couple of nights. We also bought our fondue and Raclette which is great fun, it’s the kids favorite! Food wise we basically emptied our home pantry into the RV. The problem was that there was so much that it’s taken us 4 months so far to try to use up what we had and we still have about 15 jars of curry paste left. Tracey did do a great job with our spice. Since we have so many and use so many for all the asian food we cook, we emptied the heavy glass jarsd into small lightweight plastic pots and then stacked these in the boxes they came in. We have about 36 underneath the RV and about 12 in the kitchen! • We bought the food processor - good decision. I was against it for weight reasons but Tracey was right, we use it all the time. We also bought a hand blender which we had which is also excellent for soups, sauces etc. Microwave glass bowls together with baking and serving bowls have proved useful.

Sleeping bags for the kids (we started with bedding but since they had to pull out their beds and make them every day, sleeping bags have worked much better) Sheets and blankets for us. You’d think that we wouldn’t be warm enough as sometimes it got to 40 degrees in our room but with the bed spread we’ve been fine (ok, so sometimes I wore PJ’s, socks and a beanie - very sexy!).

Tracey brought almost all thekids stuff as they are growing so quickly they'd have grown out of all their clothes by the time we got back. Because we were limited in space, especially wardrobe space, we kept our things to mostly warm weather things (our plan was to try and keep to the nice weather as much as possible - nice idea, shame it didn't quite work out like that!).

We love board games so decided to take quite a few with us. Tracey had a good idea to reduce the size and weight. She took all the bits out of the game and put them in a ziplock bag. You wouldn't believe how much space that saved! We took the kids bikes which has been great as they use them all the time exploring the campsites and going on bike rides with us, plus their roller blades which have been useful, especially for Ally. We did take a football and some outdoor games that we had although they haven't been quite as useful. We did fo

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