Don't dismiss taking meat down, I used dry ice and vacuum sealing and it would take a day or 2 to thaw out. Plus its not like you can even buy decent stuff on the island. Maybe someone else has bought the mystery bags in the deep freeze can tell you what it is.
Lots of dry and tinned goods. Nothing really fresh to speak of. I would not plan on getting anything other than snacks, pop, pasta and sauce. I got Debbie to get us bread, booze and some veg. There is a lady who bakes bread who owns the store next to Porters, get Debbie to order a loaf for you. One of the stores had UK Cadbury bars, I was in heaven!!!!
No idea on the fish as I don't eat it but I don't see why it shouldn't be available.
It would be cheaper even with all the extra bag fees to take stuff down.
This was some advice I posted a few years ago:
There are tricks to use. We always take down meat and I've posted here about it.
We use a beer can cooler inside a small suitcase. Buy all you meat at once and pack it in the cooler THEN freeze it. Makes everything more snug. Learned that the hard way. Another trick is easy for me to pull off. Buy some dry ice the day before, thankfully I have a place minutes from my shop where I can easily buy a few lbs for $1/lb. Also makes for nifty science experiments for my 12yr old son.
With gloves on I place a towel over the frozen meat and dump the dry ice on top. This is done with the cooler in the chest freezer. All this does is drop the temp way down. Minutes before the taxi arrives I remove the dry ice except for a few cubes take the cooler out and duct tape it shut.
When we arrived in
Salt Cay around 5pm everything was frozen solid. We left the house at 6:30am. Also worked in
Cayman Brac with an arrival at 9:30pm however that time I placed the dry ice in the cooler just before we left. In that case you have to have 5lbs or less and declare that you are shipping dry ice. Not a huge deal but we had to take the suitcase to a special luggage area in the terminal. For some reason the staffers managing this area are grouchy and condescending. So to avoid this next time I did the night before trick only to have our dive bags suddenly become "special luggage" unlike the time before. And true to form the staffer was as I mentioned. No escape!!!