1.   Besides ice, quick chillers for a cooler are frozen gel packs and frozen bottles of water.

2.   - Place meats, dairy products, etc. on ice or frozen gel packs with heavier items on the bottom of the cooler.

3.   Heat packs are microwavable gel packs useful to help keep cooked or heated foods hot.

4.   If taking cooked eggs to work or school, pack them with a small frozen gel pack or a frozen juice box.

5.   In addition to the traditional hard lunch boxes, new zippered cloth bags, equipped with frozen gel packs, are a good alternative.

6.   Over the suits, the girls wore a white cooling vest equipped with four gel packs,

7.   Put the gel packs back in the freezer.

8.   Try gel packs, ice cubes or frozen peas wrapped in a thin towel.