Shopping and what to expect for your Australian road trip | Travelling around Australia

I grew up a rangers son and lived in the bush first 16 years of my life. We Dad and I would go into the bush to cut firewood and check on the Rreserves Catchment area of 336.7 km�. Lunch, morning tea and afternoon tea was alwways arnots biscuits, cut snadwiches and black and white billy tea with a spare themus of hot coffee. It was fine. You don't need to overshop but shop and plan wisely for extended trip noting shops and supermarkets along the way such as a Darwin to broome your have Katherine and Kununurra supermarkets.

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� Shopping can be fun or stenerious.
� I searched google for curiosity but mostly Amercian camping, shopping and food lists - all had 'Bear Sprays'. In Australia our Koala Bear are cute you don't need Bear Spray. The Pininterest list seem so long I think I would need a semi tralier not a 4wd to carry it all.


Fridge/Freezer
� Ever tried fitting a house full of food into a small 32L Engel Fridge/Freezer.
� Buy a super cheap foam esky and look for those 3 very small icebricks red,gree,blue AUD$20 for 3. Try woolworth's that's where I got ours and this is where we put our drinks and snaks. The less you open the fridge the better.
� I found if you drive cruising 3 hours it charged the 32L Engel 67% (not just engine on that's a different ratio charge)


Food - Just a few ideas not the entire list

� Basic rules there not much room so if you can replace perishables with non persihables then try to Fresh Milk for Dairy Powder Creamer for example
� I find no matter how many plates they supplier I always need more paper plates (I know not very Eco Green)
� Paper towels for cleaning the frypans superfical leftover cooking off first and then wash. It's cleaner and saves on water.
• Remember the cooking oil but you really only need a small
• Sugar, Pepper, Salt
• Cheese, lettuce, tomato.
• Vegies Cauilflower keeps the longest we found and
• Tinned fruit salad, beetroot (OMGosh Golden Circle is our favourite), as I said soups, tinned Peas (the frozen bags take too much room)
• Glad wrap and lot's of it.
• Sandwich bags
• Sweets or lollies that not persiahble - careful they will become addictive we found.
• Eggs are tricky if the storage area is relatively cool then the tend to carry. (Check the used by date)
• (Careful of the sugar content) But the old fashion fizzy drink powder just add water.
• Plastic bottle of drinks 1 litre good size to store and carry.
� Heinz tomato sauce, Amercian Mustard great on all sandwich sliced meats.
� Bread and more bread but get the best expiry dates.
� Watermelon a full one carries well till you cut it open.
� If you buy Coca Cola or lemonades I find it just makes you thirtier
� Marg and I found heavy cooking was hard work but nice every say alternative day. The other days simple soups and snadwiches surficed fine.
� Busicuits and more biscuits
� Canned pasta sauce and pasta always a easy dish to cook up
� Burgers whether ham or fish or chicken or vegie really easy to cook up.
� If you buy burger meet 1st night camping suggest you rerool and wrap in individual burger paddies


Cooking
• When cooking on your portable griller make sure you know where the fire extingusgher and remember how to quickly use it.
• Have extra plates ready
� Oh consder buying a food fly net cover you will tanks me later (the Great Australian Sulate is a aussie swating at a fly)

Food

� To reduce volume and weight, snap-top bags are great to hold food where you don�t need the whole pack
� It�s worthwhile buying some small containers at an outdoor shop to hold things like olive oil, powdered milk and sugar, as these are robust and easier to handle cleanly
� Always have some food as a reserve that cannot be affected by heat or go off, for example freeze-dried or canned, as part of your back-up supplies

Other Things

� A cheap wollen rug for eating outdoors. (10 to 1 as we say you will forget it whilst hiking somewhere)