Simpson desert ten yrs on meetup July 5th Coober Pedy start 2024

[AB]

Well, I’m enjoying my $28 snittys tonight that I bought in Birdsville because I thought I would run out of food.

Go me lol



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[Plasnart]

Well, I’m enjoying my $28 snittys tonight that I bought in Birdsville because I thought I would run out of food.

Go me lol



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How did the vac packs go on the trip mate? A winner?

[jay see]

Well, I’m enjoying my $28 snittys tonight that I bought in Birdsville because I thought I would run out of food.

Go me lol



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I think we have enough frozen food that we have transferred from the car freezer to the home for a week.
Dinner sorted next week..

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[jay see]

Amazingly, we, as a NP.com.au crew made a 6,000km ++ trip across the country without a single tyre puncture
Upon exhausted return to the Hills late last night found 5 x small city sedans with P platers at the helm on our little highway. Each one of them, unknown to each other, had blown front left tyres with some rims destroyed
Finally made bed before midnight after clearing the highway of hazard lights, crushed rocked buckets and painting in the rain was fun too




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Correct not one tyre puncture, but 3 windscreens will need replacement..

Here's mine.
Along with the screen a couple minor issues all due to the corrugations.
Lost both LHS sway bar link nuts, screws fell out of the rear of the overhead console, cable ties holding it up now and the wire worked its way out of the back of the brake light plug.



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[AB]

How did the vac packs go on the trip mate? A winner?

Life changing mate, it was easy peezy just slow boiling the Meaks and rice packets or pasta.

Zero cleanup and they were delicious!

I’m never going back.


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[Plasnart]

Life changing mate, it was easy peezy just slow boiling the Meaks and rice packets or pasta.

Zero cleanup and they were delicious!

I’m never going back.


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Right on! It’s a lot more forward planning and preparation, but when you’re out bush not peeling onions and dicing carrots with a torch on your head and getting sand in your chicken it pays off big time! The kitchen’s for cookin’ and the bush is for relaxin’!

[AB]

Right on! It’s a lot more forward planning and preparation, but when you’re out bush not peeling onions and dicing carrots with a torch on your head and getting sand in your chicken it pays off big time! The kitchen’s for cookin’ and the bush is for relaxin’!

For sure!

I printed out an Excel table with a list and qty of meals and just crossed them off when used.

Each morning lachy and I just sat in the car warming it up and discussed the menu for tonight’s meal, take it out of freezer and tick it off.

Worked brilliantly!


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[Rossco]

Right on! It’s a lot more forward planning and preparation, but when you’re out bush not peeling onions and dicing carrots with a torch on your head and getting sand in your chicken it pays off big time! The kitchen’s for cookin’ and the bush is for relaxin’!

Yep 100% so much easier and the space saving is amazing. Run a small fridge and even with stuff for the little fella had heaps of room didn't even have to do the beer out beer in trick to maximise space. Taken a while but have re thought the food camping thing over the years no more salads for sandwiches that take up a heap of space and go mankey in a few days, camp roasts and the like are great but a bit of a novelty especially on trips where it's go go. . The only issue I had was running a small old Engel as a freezer combined with my old Engie fridge which even with a Lithium was pretty power hungry. .

The old GQ did well but found the alternator was a bit weak keeping the BCDC running plus other stuff, unfortunately it seems hard to get a good reliable alternator when restricted to having a vac pump on the back on the silvertop TD but looks like QIKAZZ are doing a genuine Hitachi 90A one which might be the go. Apart from that had a slight water leak that came and went from the water pump I think so will swap that out with a new one and just about to give the old girl a well deserved wash now. . Weather a bit better now than yesterday when we got back was very wild & wintery. . .

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[PeeBee]

Yep 100% so much easier and the space saving is amazing. Run a small fridge and even with stuff for the little fella had heaps of room didn't even have to do the beer out beer in trick to maximise space. Taken a while but have re thought the food camping thing over the years no more salads for sandwiches that take up a heap of space and go mankey in a few days, camp roasts and the like are great but a bit of a novelty especially on trips where it's go go. . The only issue I had was running a small old Engel as a freezer combined with my old Engie fridge which even with a Lithium was pretty power hungry. .

The old GQ did well but found the alternator was a bit weak keeping the BCDC running plus other stuff, unfortunately it seems hard to get a good reliable alternator when restricted to having a vac pump on the back on the silvertop TD but looks like QIKAZZ are doing a genuine Hitachi 90A one which might be the go. Apart from that had a slight water leak that came and went from the water pump I think so will swap that out with a new one and just about to give the old girl a well deserved wash now. . Weather a bit better now than yesterday when we got back was very wild & wintery. . .

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Ross maybe consider a larger unit without the vac pump and run an electric vac pump? Opens up the opportunities and functionally the same. I have a Proflow vac pump that I will be mounting should and when the chev mech vac pump dies. There are plenty around, you dont need a big on, plumb it into the cac recervoir and job done.

Actually the unit and part number is in my near latest thread about the center console. I understand they are a good unit.

[Plasnart]

Life changing mate, it was easy peezy just slow boiling the Meaks and rice packets or pasta.

Zero cleanup and they were delicious!

I’m never going back.


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Can you explain this in more detail AB? On my trips I’ve always emptied the vac pack meal into a pot and cooked it up with some extra water in it. Did you boil your meals in the bag? How did you cook your rice and pasta with no clean up?