Ah, okay, that makes sense. I'm learning that meat actually keeps pretty well in the fridge.

I've actually had really good experiences (on a car camping trip) with having pre-cooked ground beef patties just in a cooler. They lasted for about 3 or 4 days, even though the ice had melted.

I deliberately keep on eating these beef patties past the point of where more cautious people would have stopped because they may have gone bad. I think it was on the 4th morning, after eating it, I did get some diarrhea, nothing too serious but enough that I stopped eating them.

I'll write up a post soon about another method of having great meat, without needing refrigeration - shawarma.