Stuff to Keep Me Fuelled

I didn't take a cooking element with me - I'm not a big fan of cooking in a kitchen let alone in the bush, and I didn't want to add the weight of fuel and utensils to my load.

I made do with food I picked up at roadhouses and supermarkets en route. From halfway across the Nullarbor until the finished in Sydney I had a thermos, so when I wasn't camping I was able to prepare not tea or coffee for one day's journey. My brew usually stayed hot (wee, lukewarm anyway) until the next morning.

The following is a list of some of the food I ate along the way:
Apples
Assorted nuts
Bananas
Boiled eggs
Bread
Canned fruit, veggies
CCs
Chocolate
Coke
Coffee
Honey
Kiwi fruits
Muesli bars
Nutolene
Nutrition bars
Oranges
Pasta
Peanut butter
Pitted dates
Raspberry cordial
Raspberry tea
Rice cakes
Roadhouse meals - veggie burgers, chips, Coca-Cola, gooey chocolate cake. Food rewards! I ate all the things that I daydreamed about between one roadhouse and the next.
Ryvita crackers
Salt
Sports drinks
Tuna (no more tuna ever again!)
Vitamin supplements
Water

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