Meal Prep: Extreme Edition - Slow Cooker Tuscan Chicken

Next up on our extreme cooking adventure is a Tuscan style chicken recipe - I can't remember where I originally found this one, but it is delicious!

This is another one where you basically just throw all of the ingredients into a slow cooker, and then let it do its thing :)

Slow Cooker Tuscan Style Chicken       |    Portions 24

Ingredients
- 15 chicken thighs, cubed
- 4 carrots, sliced
- 4 celery sticks, sliced
- 4 cloves garlic, crushed
- 4 tomatoes, diced
- 10 potatoes, cut into small chunks (I used brushed potatoes, but any would be fine)
- 1 litre chicken stock
- 2 tablespoons tomato paste
- 2 teaspoons fennel seeds
- salt & pepper

Method
Step 1: put all of the ingredients in the slowcooker
Step 2: cook on high for 5 hours (set a timer!)
Step 3: leave to cool before portioning

When you are ready to eat, defrost the portion, and heat it up.  Generally, because I don't want to do anything else, I would just heat in the microwave and that's it.  What you should probably do is pop it into a pan on the stove and heat it through - since the sauce is a little runny, you can reduce to thicken, or use a cornflour/water mixture to thicken quicker.   I then serve with crusty bread.

Adding balsamic vinegar to taste, or some chilli flakes, are nice additions to this recipe if you think it needs them/you like those flavours :).

This is so delicious - easily a family favourite.

Enjoy!
Hx

Roadtrip Australia: Wildlife

When you think about the wildlife in Australia, you think the standard kangaroos and koalas, and then the things that might kill you, the snakes and spiders.

This little post is simply to list the wildlife we saw on our desert trips (both the practice one and the real thing) - you will soon see that we didn't actually see any spiders and snakes on either!  Of course - they were there, so definitely keep an eye out, but don't let fear get in the way of adventure.

PS my animal photos are few and far between - it appears I didn't take all that many!  Noted for the next trip.

emu crossing in Flinders Ranges

Our practice trip
This trip was in December 2016, and was seriously hot (around 45+ each day).  We probably saw many more animals than is listed below, but once we started getting so much car trouble, we stopped counting.

On this trip we saw:

Beetle x 1 (it got into our be and woke us up)
Kangaroo x 2
Deer x 1
Rabbit x 2
Wallaby x 4
Billy goats x 20
Emu x 23
Lizard x 2
Eagle x 2

rock wallaby in Alice Springs

Our Uluru/Flinders Trip
This trip was in April 2017, and was still warm, but also so SO wet.  We counted the wildlife the whole way through this trip (which of course I didn't photograph) - we saw more emus than anything else, but certainly saw a good range.  Most animals are pretty harmless, as long as you respect them and their surroundings.  I would definitely be careful of dingos running around the campsite (we had this happen at King's Canyon) - be sure to keep all of your food properly stored!

camel farm on the side of the Sturt Highway

On this trip, we saw:

Billy goats x too many to count
Kanagroos x 14
Eagles x 20
Fox x 1
Emus x 46
Large lizard x 2
Small lizard x 1  **hahaha sorry my reptile knowledge is limited
Horses x 8
Cows x 36
Rock wallaby x 3
Desert skink x 1
Buzzard x 1
Mountain goats x 4
Rabbit x 1

And that's it!

be prepared for flies - SO many flies!

This little series is going to take a hiatus until after our Tassie trip in June, mostly because I have run out of useful things to say for now haha.

Our next trip is totally opposite from our last trip.  We have gone from 'do we have enough sunscreen, and hats and are we sure our electronic things won't overheat' to 'we should buy some extra thermals, and do we need snowchains'.  So that should be interesting!

I will relay that adventure in July when we are back, as well as covering safety, fuel and animals for it too!

Until then, I will still be regularly uploading my meal prepping blogs :)

Hx

Meal Prep: Extreme Edition - Slow Cooker Beef and Barley Stew

Next up in our meal prep journey is a delicious stew Tara and I discovered on one of our first ever cooking days, and had forgotten about until now.

I think the original recipe called it a soup... but it's a stew!

Slow Cooker Beef & Barley Stew      |     Portions: 16

Ingredients
- 1.5kg chuck steak, cubed
- 6 brushed potatoes, washed and diced (peeled if desired)
- 4 carrots, sliced
- 1 brown onion, diced
- 4 celery sticks, sliced
- 6 cloves garlic, minced
- 4 tbsp. tomato paste
- 2 tsp Worstershire sauce
- 4 bay leaves
- 2 litres beef stock
- 1 cup pearl barley
- fresh thyme
- salt & pepper to taste

Method
Step 1: heat vegetable oil on the stove and brown the meat
Step 2: Add all ingredients to the slow cooker, and cook on high for 5 hours
Step 3: remove bay leaves and thyme stalks, before portioning

I would serve this with some crusty bread - and that's it!

We had this for dinner the other night (forgot to take a photo!); I actually find this quite bland.  When I am eating this other night, I will be adding half a cup of water and heating it up on the stove - I will also be adding more salt & pepper, along with some paprika and maybe some chilli flakes.  I'm not sure yet - I will update the recipe once I know what works!

Join me next Wednesday for a delicious Tuscan chicken :)

Hx

Roadtrip Australia: Spot Gen 3

When you have a country as huge as Australia, it goes without saying that you might not have phone reception for some or a lot of your trip.

Telstra has the most coverage, so if you are with Telstra (and have a blue tick phone) then you will get reception pretty much anywhere!

Mack and I are both with Optus, and we figured we'd be OK without a phone sometimes so didn't bother to get a travel phone.  We do have one now - a little Samsung phone on Telstra for just in case.  Which we bought in Broken Hill when we were busy being broken down, because we felt it was safer to be able to call home with the situation we were in!

When we were planning this first trip, and we were thinking about the possibility of not having a phone, we started looking into GPS trackers and emergency systems.  We started off looking at EPIRBs - they are typically for boats, but we figured if we were stranded in the middle of nowhere it would be better than nothing.  But these are are 1 time thing, and they call the emergency services, so it has to be life or death before you use it.

And then we found the Spot Gen 3.  You can peruse their website here - you can also find where to by them from this website.

It is pretty much a one way satellite messenger, which works on a subscription basis (exactly the same as your phone on a monthly contract), and will pick up your location anywhere in the world.  And we freaking love it!

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So what does it do?
From my point of view, Spot has 2 main uses:
- tracks your location, and records your journey
- gives you a method of communication to be able to call for help if required

How does it work?
Spot works on a subscription service, so you pay a monthly fee to keep your Spot active.  The more you pay the more features you get.  We pay a higher amount than the base level, because we wanted to be able to drop a pin on the map every 2 minutes so we could see a really accurate trip!

It works on satellites, so it works everywhere - it obviously works best outside, but we did get signal inside some buildings.  We also clipped it to our bag when we went for big walks (like around Ayers Rock), so you can track your walking tracks too.  SO cool!  I would also strongly recommend getting the holder that sticks it to your window - we had it sliding around all over the place on our first trip haha.

There is then an app that you can pop on your phone, and you can see the trip as you go :)

What do the buttons do?
There are 5 buttons on the Spot Gen 3.

The bottom row from left to right:
 - Custom message - you can set this to say whatever you like.  My suggestion is decide what you want it to say, and tell the person you send it to what it means if it comes through
- Tracking - once you turn Spot on, press and hold this to tell it to track your every move.  If you have Extreme Tracker like we do, then it will drop a pin on the map every 2 minutes
- Check in - You can set what this message says too, and it pretty much means 'we have arrived'.  We pressed this every morning when we set off, and every night when we arrived.

Above these buttons, there are 2 covered buttons (so you can't accidentally press them):
- The one on the left is the ''it isn't life or death, but please send help' button - select someone you know and trust who knows what to do to help you when you in a rural situation and can't help yourself
- The one on the right is the 'SOS I might die' button.  ONLY use this if you have exhausted all other options and you have run out of water and food, or if you have been bitten by a deadly animal.  It contacts the emergency services and search and rescue comes to pick you up.  If it genuinely saves your life, its a free of charge service to rescue you; if it's a false alarm and you didn't really need saving, you pick up the bill afterwards (and you definitely don't want that!).

What we use it for?
Primarily, we had a it set to track our trip, so that when we got home we could look at the whole trip and see where we had been.  Actually, we use it not just for huge roadtrips, but also for when we take a weekend trip away, or go camping or 4 wheel driving, because we think it's great to be able to see exactly where we have travelled.

We also use the check in button on big trips to let a select group of people know that we had arrived at our destination for the night.  You can set up a group on the website, and give them access to the map to follow you, and send them an email or text when you press the check in button so they can see your GPS coordinates.

We didn't actually expect to need it to call for help haha!

We set up the custom button to basically say 'hey, we're OK, but we are delayed'.  This was sent only to Mack's parents, and basically meant we're having some issues but I think we're OK.

The send us help button we then used when we didn't have any other options.  Again we only sent it to Mack's parents, as we only really wanted 1 person trying to help, not many!  This we used when we had tried everything Mack knew to get the car going again and nothing was working and we didn't have the parts to do anything else.  Remember, though, that Spot literally sends a message that says where you are and that you need help.  Nothing else.  So be sure to select someone that knows you well and can successfully deduce what is wrong.  On our first Uluru trip, Mack's parents figured we probably had car trouble and sent a tow truck to our location :).

Why we love it so much?
From a safety point of view, it's perfect - you can literally not have a phone on you, and people back home (aka worried parents) can see where you are, and also know you have a way to let them know if you are not OK (and also that you are OK).

From a road-tripping point of view, it's really cool because you can record your trip and see everywhere you went!  I love that you can save your adventures to your account on the website to look back on your trips down the track.  I also think it's really cool that you can give your friends the link to the map and they can log in and follow your trip - you might not have a use for this feature, but our friends and family love it!

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If you haven't been to Australia before, and you are planning on coming over for a roadtrip adventure, do your research!  You would be amazed at how many people arrive, buy a dodgy car and set off on a trip without any kind of knowledge.  

Be sure that you know how far you're going (and actually believe someone when they say driving from one place to another will take 4 or 5 days, or more).  Know your car.  Know how much food and water you have, and take more than you think you will need.  Pack all of the sun protection you have - yes the desert really does get up in the 50s!  Have a first aid kit, and know what to do in the event of a spider or snake bite.  Have a plan for what you will do if you end up stranded somewhere without a phone. 

Thanks for joining me so far on the Roadtrip Australia series.  Join me next me when I talk about Australian wildlife.

I hope you have enjoyed so far, and that it has proved helpful!

Hx

Meal Prep: Extreme Edition - Slow Cooker Minestrone Soup

This original recipe for this delicious soup we found on Pintrest, and you can also find it here (where she also has a stovetop version if you don't have a slow cooker).  As with most recipes, Tara and I adapted it based on the ingredients we like and the sheer quantity we wanted to make.

This extreme cooking day involved lots of soups and stews because, by the time we need to cook again, it will be July (what an insane thought haha), and we will be well into Winter when we want hearty food that warms us from the inside.  And this soup does just that.

And to top it off, my boy, who doesn't really like veggies, absolutely loves this soup!

By the way, if Tim asks, they are all stews, because he is insistent that he doesn't like soup... minestrone stew anyone?

Slow Cooker Minestrone Soup     |     Portions: 12

Ingredients
for now
- 4 carrots, sliced
- 6 celery sticks, sliced
- 6 cloves garlic, crushed (I am not ashamed to say on huge cooking days, we use the already crushed garlic in a jar)
- 2 brown onions, diced
- 4 tsp dried basil
- 2 tsp dried oregano
- 2 tsp dried rosemary
- 2 cans tomatoes (400g cans, can be diced or whole, or whatever you have to hand)
- 6 tbsp tomato paste
- 4 bay leaves
- 1.5 litres vegetable stock
- 3 zucchinis, sliced
- 2 cans red kidney beans, drained and rinsed
- 2 cans cannellini beans, drained and rinsed
- a couple of handfuls of baby spinach
to serve
- dried pasta (I have pasta shells, but any pasta will do)
- Parmesan cheese, shaved
- salt and pepper
- fresh parsley, finely chopped

Method
Step 1: put the carrots, celery, garlic, onion, herbs, canned tomatoes, tomato paste and vegetable stock into the slow cooker and season with some salt and peppers
Step 2: cover with the lid and cook on high for 3 hours (set your timer!)
Step 3: when the timer goes off, add kidney beans, cannellini beans and zucchini and cook for a further 30 minutes (set another timer)
Step 4: turn off the slow cooker, stir in the baby spinach and leave to cool
Step 5: portion into 400g portions (in Tupperware) and freeze

When you are ready to eat:
- defrost the soup
- cook the dried pasta on its own (about 50g per person)
- put the soup on the stove with about a quarter cup of water and heat, stirring through the pasta and any additional seasoning
- serve with crusty bread and Parmesan cheese

And that's it - a super yummy, winter warmer soup!

Hx

Roadtrip Australia: Wikicamps

This blog is a little late - so sorry!  Usually I schedule my posts in advance, and I just forgot that I hadn't finished writing this one.  Never mind - here we are now :)

We discovered Wikicamps right before we left on our first Uluru roadtrip, and it really is the best thing ever!  Especially if you are looking to spend minimal $$ in accommodation, or find somewhere close to your location that would be nice/safe for the night.

Wikicamps is how we found the rest stop at Lake Hart - this view anyone?

The first step is to download the app, and then make an account.  I have a vague memory of paying something like $7ish to be able to use all of the features, but I can't quire remember.

Wikicamps has so many features - most of which I don't have a clue how to use or what they are even for!  One thing you definitely need to do is make sure you download the maps for each state, so you can be sure that you can access them anywhere, Wi-Fi or not.

The home page of the app looks like this:

Below is just one example the one feature we actually used - I'm sure there are lots of other things you could use this for.  But we pretty much just needed to know what was close by to us and where we could stay the night after a long day of driving.

Referring to the home page pic above, we clicked on 'View Map' - top row in the middle.

From there, we then clicked on 'location' (in the below pic, at the top in the middle) - and typed in the city we were nearest to.  Once you narrow down the area, you can then scroll around to see what's nearby.

This app shows:
- rest stops
- truck stops
- caravan parks
- actual accommodation
- points of interest
- probably more things I didn't take note of :)

Once you have a screen that looks like the above, you can then start clicking on the little icons and it will tell you what it is.  Some of them say things like 'gravel pit' or 'truck stop', and these are places to avoid! 

Rest areas, like Lake Hart, look like the below.  It shows the icons of the facilities that are there, as well as a review rating.  From here, you can get more info, or get directions to that location.

Free is obviously the $ with a \ through it - the others are also fairly self explanatory, but if you click on 'more details' it will explain them all for you by clicking on the icons (below is the 'more details' view).

Typically, I would look for sites where there is:

- no charge to stay

- toilets

- running water 

- phone signal 

Even though Lake Hart is missing most of these facilities, I would not miss this rest stop!  It is super safe, with lots of people stopping there for the night.  It is roughly half way between Port Augusta and Coober Pedy, which is a good distance to have a rest, and if you're on a trip that huge, chances are you will survive without running water and a phone for the night (I hope you're OK with a bush pee though haha).  You can then walk all the way down and wander around on the salt lake - which is incredible.  We took what would be about 1000 photos whilst we watched the sun set.  Such a great evening.

When choosing your place to stay, I would strongly recommend reading the comments (the tab at the top of the above pic).  As always, take people's reviews with a pinch of salt (because lots of the time people are so dramatic when they leave a review!), but definitely use them to help make a decision on where to stay.

We generally avoided anywhere that:
- had consistent bad reviews (pertaining to noise, safety or really messy)
- hadn't had a review in well over 6 months

Sometimes we ended up paying for some campsite (like if we selected a caravan park or something), but we only did that if it was the only safe option, or if we were due for a shower! :)

We are heading to Tassie in June, and we will be using Wikicamps the whole time - we have challenged ourselves to pay $0 for accommodation on this trip, which makes it more interesting.  After this trip, I will do the Wikicamps Tassie trip blog for you to see everywhere we stayed.

Join me next Sunday at 5pm for a review on our Satellite Messaging device - the Spot Gen 3.

Hx

Cook with Hannah: Aero

Revisiting the time I made Aero. That light, beautiful, bubbly goodness we all know and love.

The original recipe for this I found (I think) in this Zumbo book.

It was part of some huge complicated dessert recipe, but I just made this part, and it was amazing!

Milk Chocolate Aero

Ingredients:
500g milk chocolate [the best is callebaut, but sicao, or baking chocolate does work too]
125g cocoa butter [this you have to buy from specialist hospitality shops]

Method.
Step 1: line a tin with grease-proof paper [I use my square brownie tin], and place it in the freezer
Step 2: put the ingredients in a bowl over a pan of simmering water, and melt and stir until smooth
Step 3: allow the mixture to cool until 45oC [this part is actually really important so as to not seize up the cream canister]
Step 4: pour the cooled mixture into a 500ml cream canister, use 2 N2O bulbs, and pipe into the frozen tray
Step 5: place in the freezer for 5 minutes, and then refrigerate


My notes:

Don't use cheap chocolate, compound chocolate, or normal eating chocolate [like Cadbury] - it doesn't work as well.

Use these measurements for a 500ml cream canister - they don't work if they're too empty or too full!

Work fast and be patient - letting the chocolate cool too much, or pouring it in while it's too hot, or leaving it in the canister for too long will result in seizing the canister.  I've done it.. I can promise you it's annoying and not at all ideal.

You can make thin ones..

Or you can dip them in dark chocolate..

I wouldn't recommend making this with dark chocolate though [too dense]..

You could infuse oils, or herbs into the chocolate - to make orange, coconut, mint.. the possibilities are endless. You could try white chocolate - I haven't tried it yet so let me know how it is!

Have fun with it - whatever you try, you will end up with delicious, bubbly goodness! 

And don't be too disheartened if it doesn't work the first time.. it takes a little practice, but it is so, so worth it in the end :)

This was one of my favourite achievements - enjoy :)

Hx

Meal Prep: Extreme Edition - Slow Cooker Pulled Pork

The first of many recipes!

I am posting the recipes in the order in which we got them prepped and cooking on our extreme cooking day :).  The ingredients are the quantities we used on this particular day, and I will list how many portions we got out of each recipe - definitely for meal prep purposes, and not a quick dinner for two people (you will have to half or quarter some of these recipes for that!).

This pulled pork is so easy, and just so delicious.  I mainly use it to make pulled pork sliders with a BBQ sauce, but you could also use it in tacos or burritos - anything really.

Slow Cooker Pulled Pork     |      Portions: 16

Ingredients
- ~3kg boneless pork shoulder
- 2 onions, roughly chopped
- 2 tsp dried thyme
- 2 tsp dried rosemary
- 1 litre chicken stock

Method
Step 1: prep the meat by removing the string, and trimming any excess fat
Step 2: put the onion in the bottom of the slow cooker, and place the pork on top
Step 3: sprinkle with the thyme and rosemary, salt and pepper, and then pour the stock over the top
Step 4: put the lid on, and cook on low for 10 hours (set a timer!!!)
Step 5: after 10 hours, turn off the slow cooker, and leave to cook for half an hour or so (just long enough so you don't burn yourself!)
Step 6: transfer the meat into a bowl (leave the liquid behind) and shred with 2 forks
Step 7: leave to cool fully before portioning

We portioned this pork into 300g portions (to serve 2 people) in ziplock bags (not Tupperware, to save space).

This is the only pic I have of the pork, in the slow cooker...

I will update this blog with photos of the finished meal once I get to eating this one!

Join me next week for slow cooker minestrone soup :).

Hx

Monthly Update #3: March

I really cannot believe how fast this year is going!  How is it April already!?

I have had a rather quiet month, by my standards.  The first week or so was used to relax and sleep and just decompress from the crazy that was Psyfari!

The second weekend, I had a Melbourne adventure with Tara (and Tim).  My flight landed in the afternoon (yes I did fly, for once!), and we begun the trip by going shopping.  Didn't end up buying anything, but never mind.  We then headed to Supernormal for dinner.

I had never heard of this place, but my goodness!  It takes a lot to really impress me in a restaurant (thanks to a decade of hospitality life haha), and this one just exceeded all of my expectations.  Service was sensational (you wouldn't get better service in a hatted restaurant), and the food was incredible!  You can find them here - if you are ever in Melbourne, go check it out!

We then were really full, so to make room for dessert, we went for a walk around the park nearby.  Once it started getting dark, we went to Storyville - a delightfully themed book bar on a little side street.  The decor is so amazing in here, and their drinks are book themed.  I had the polyjuice potion :)

We had a reservation for dessert at 10pm, so we headed over to Om Noms for a late night dessert and cocktail feast.  If exquisite desserts and cocktails that are smoking with liquid nitrogen is your thing, then this is definitely the place for you :).

I feel like this monthly update has turned into a recommendation list for restaurants and bars in Melbourne!!

The following night, Tara and I headed to see Ed Sheeran!  We were in the standing section, so we arrived pretty early and waited for a couple of hours for the show to get going.  His support bands were Bliss N Eso and Missy Higgins, which was so great - 2 artists I probably wouldn't have bought tickets to go and see, but definitely enjoy their music, so it was cool to see them live.  Ed then played an amazing set!  Even though I have seen him before, I still think it's insane (and seriously impressive) that one human can keep a stadium that huge entertained on his own :).

I headed back on the early morning flight, straight to work.... but managed to miss my flight for the first time ever, so I was a little late!  Note to self - be earlier to the airport on a commuter flight!!

Other than cleaning the house and getting back into some sort of routine, the majority of the month continued to be pretty quiet.

I was involved in planning an event at Luna Park in late March, which was really fun!  I had never been to Luna Park so that was a bit exciting :).  The event was for work and SUVA - I won't go into  detail on a lifestyle blog about work, but if events and finding unique venues is something you are interested in, head here.

The last weekend in March was then my cooking weekend with Tara.  This particular weekend is getting a whole series on its own it was so massive!  We managed to make 12 weeks worth of food in about a day and a half.  The first in this series can be found here, and if you're into meal prepping, or are looking to start a meal prep routine, then this is for you.  To be honest, this weekend was more like Meal Prep: Extreme Edition, but if you would like advice on how to get started on meal prepping like a normal person, then follow the series, and feel free to comment/message with questions!

And that's it.  Thank you for being a bit calmer, March - it's been nice!

See you next month :)
Hx

Roadtrip Australia: The Fuel Situation

You've all seen these souvenir signs from Australia, right?

The kind of sign you might think is a joke, if you hadn't travelled around Australia by car.  They have them for 'last fuel for 240km' or watch for animals for the next however many kms too.

For those of your that don't think they're real... 

... this is the one we spotted in Cobar, on our way to Broken Hill!

So it is a thing.

On our journey to Uluru and around South Australia, we actually expected this to pop up more than it did.  We have a 110 litre long range fuel tank, and we always carried a full 20 litre jerry can as well, just in case.  We also decided right at the beginning of the trip that we would stop at every fuel stop and top up, because we didn't want to get caught out!  

I suppose if we had travelled these roads 20 or 30 years ago, we might have had to worry about such a thing, but we found that now there is not so much need to.

It is very important to note that we drove on well travelled, sealed roads a lot of the time for the Uluru-Flinders Ranges trip.  The only time we were a little concerned about fuel was on the Oodnadatta Track, where people and towns and shops were few and far between.  If you are travelling on the roads less travelled, especially in the Outback and very rural Australia, this should always be a concern!

On the trip where we made it to Uluru, I kept a note of all of our fuel stops that we made - the cost per litre, where we were and how far we traveled. This means that I can actually tell you how much to budget for fuel on a trip similar to the one we did!

I will keep this kind of log for all of our trips, so as I go along, I can update my Ultimate Guide (coming soon!) as we travel different roads around Australia :).

So.  How much should you budget for fuel for a 14 day trip to King's Canyon, Uluru, Alice Springs and the Flinders Ranges, starting and ending in Sydney?

The short answer: 7600km used 999.24 litres of fuel, which cost us $1535.86.  We got around 13L per 100km on this trip.

There are, of course, SO many variables here.  Are you travelling the same roads as us?  Is it really hot?  What model car do you have?  How loaded up is your car?  Is your vehicle running optimally?  How are petrol prices at the moment?  I could go on.

We drive a 2000 (I think) Holden Rodeo; it's part time 4WD, 6 cylinder engine with all terrain tyres; also with a canopy, roof cage, and I think we would have weighed close to 3 tonnes on this trip!  We also know for sure that the engine/cooling system isn't in the greatest of conditions - although we had patched it up since the last time (see our practice Uluru trip here).

We stopped in all of these places for fuel, over the course of 14 days.

And at the time of travel, the prices at each of these looked like the below - I have named the petrol station we used if I noted it down :)

April 2017 - important to note that we were travelling over Easter and in school holidays.

(all prices in cents)
- Caltex Pendle Hill: 139.9
- BP Dubbo West: 134.9
- Inland Cobar: 135.9
- Peterborough, SA: 126.9
- Puma, Port Augusta: 125.9
- Spuds, Pimba: 155.9
- Marla Roadhouse: 165.9
- Kulgara Roadhouse: 177.9
- King's Canyon: 210.9
- Ayers Rock: 192.8
- Puma, Alice Springs: 156.9
- Marla Roadhouse: 165.9
- Shell, Coober Pedy: 149.9
- Marree, SA: 180
- Hawker, SA: 141.9
- Caltex, Gladstone: 127.9
- OTR, Renmark: 128.9
- Caltex, Hay South: 131.9
- Coles, Wagga Wagga: 136.9

So our cheapest fuel was in Port Augusta, in South Australia, and then once we started heading up towards the Northern Territory, the price just escalated!  The most expensive was King's Canyon, with Ayer's Rock just behind that.

That is to be expected though - that fuel prices will jump up the more rural you go; I also wouldn't guarantee the quality of the fuel the more remote you are either.  We didn't have any issues in that department, but it is something to be aware of.

With 19 fuel stops, the average price of fuel was 151.95c.  The price of fuel around Australia jumps up and down randomly all the time, but this is a fairly good average to budget with, expecting it to be a touch less in large cities, and more in remote towns.

I hope you find this a helpful guide to fuel!

Join me next week when I chat about Wikicamps :)
Hx