Another option which no one's mentioned is to have a second, "dormitory" sized fridge that can hold a couple bottles of beer, butter, half a dozen eggs, a container of milk, some cheese, maybe some salad ingredients, a package of steak, and a couple of ice cube trays in the freezer section. Keep it running in the garage or laundry shed. If the power goes out, transfer ONLY those items from your regular fridge to that one. Your solar generator will run that bad boy long enough that you don't have to worry about whether the sun comes out in the next couple of days or not. It'll also likely have plenty of juice left over to illuminate the home in the evening, but definitely not enough for the AC.
You can charge your tablet and/or phone from your car's USB port and if you have it, from your golf cart's USB port. You can cook your eggs on a griddle atop your grill outside your house - you can also learn to make a camp stove with newspaper and a coffee can (yes, you actually can do that). Then you don't even need a grill at all, just tin foil.
The toughest part of all of this will be living without air conditioning during a Florida summer. The refrigerator would be the least of my worries.
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