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Ma


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Does anyone take a bread maker with them when they travel for any extended periods and is it worth it.

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Lol Ma,  I bet the men are shaking their heads on that one.

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Yes Mon, they probably will but I bet they will be pretty quick eating what comes out of it with lashings of butter and vegemite........biggrin

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Message on white board Monica.

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G'day,

Take the bread maker, you bet.  Lots of places charge like wounded bulls for bread, some of it frozen, and as long as you are on a powered site why not make use of the power and get some good, wholesome, cheaper and nicer tasting bread.

Way back in 1997 we were trapped at Nanutarra roadhouse awaiting a pulley for the car and they were charging about $4.50 for a frozen loaf of bread that was around 4 days old, who knows what they would be charging now.
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And it is still happening John, I went to a corner shop in a little town in Queensland and they charged me $4.95 for a loaf of bread.  I was not a happy camper.

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G'day,
One loaf and a bottle of milk and you've done $10, and Rudd the Dud has just given pensioner couples $10.40 each per fortnight. Whoopeeeeeeee!!!

John

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JRH wrote:

G'day,

Take the bread maker, you bet.  Lots of places charge like wounded bulls for bread, some of it frozen, and as long as you are on a powered site why not make use of the power and get some good, wholesome, cheaper and nicer tasting bread.

Way back in 1997 we were trapped at Nanutarra roadhouse awaiting a pulley for the car and they were charging about $4.50 for a frozen loaf of bread that was around 4 days old, who knows what they would be charging now.
John


That Nanutarra Roadhous (WA) is one of the most expensive fuel places in Oz and are rip off merchants as you have found out and they don't care, they are in a half way point and most people have to refuel there.  For anyone travelling north in WA, try to arrange your fuel so you don't have to refuel there or only get the minimum, or carry spare fuel and park opposite the roadhouse and thumb your nose at them as you refuel yourself.   Robbing so and so's !  You couldn't have picked a worse place to break down John!

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Ma wrote:

Message on white board Monica.



Got it thanks heaps

 

 



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I usually make bread in the camp oven comes out great even had people ask if they could buy the loaf Helena.

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I used to take a breadmaker when we did our last long trip. Had to turn it on though during the day because the noises it made were best left to when no one could hear it.
We found though that we had to stock up on breadmix as very few places away from major towns had it to buy.

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JRH wrote:

G'day,

Take the bread maker, you bet.  Lots of places charge like wounded bulls for bread, some of it frozen, and as long as you are on a powered site why not make use of the power and get some good, wholesome, cheaper and nicer tasting bread.

Way back in 1997 we were trapped at Nanutarra roadhouse awaiting a pulley for the car and they were charging about $4.50 for a frozen loaf of bread that was around 4 days old, who knows what they would be charging now.
John


That Nanutarra Roadhous (WA) is one of the most expensive fuel places in Oz and are rip off merchants as you have found out and they don't care, they are in a half way point and most people have to refuel there.  For anyone travelling north in WA, try to arrange your fuel so you don't have to refuel there or only get the minimum, or carry spare fuel and park opposite the roadhouse and thumb your nose at them as you refuel yourself.   Robbing so and so's !  You couldn't have picked a worse place to break down John!

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G'day,

You are dead right there Vic, I have dual fuel on the Falcon (Foul Can) LPG/Petrol and am quite happy to drive past to Fortescue Roadhouse if I am heading North, if heading South then I carry on to Minilya Roadhouse.  Always try to carry a jerry can of petrol just in case Fortescue to Minilya is a bit out of range.

 

Didn't know back then what a robbing so and so he was or we could have gone on to Karatha as the pulley that blew the bearing was the tentioner for the power steering, I could have just taken the belt off and put up without the power steering, would have been damned hard reversing the van but driving on the road would not have been too bad.  Bet the arms would have been a bit sore though.



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Heck, seems I need educating. My last camp oven attempt to make bread became wheel chocks for a roadtrain.

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There should be a national warning out to travellers to avoid the Nanutarra R/house, and Barkly Homestead for the same reasons.
The former owners of Nanutarra also owned the Broome Vacation Village Caravan Park, where I lived for 9 years until I hit the road in 07.
They were content to take the money, but the maintenance and presentation of the park left a lot to be desired. I volunteered to do some gardening around the park, which I continued to do for the duration of my stay.
The new park owners are much more aware, and despite the current managers, run a well-oiled, high standard park. The same company owns the Riverview Caravan Park in Katherine.
Word of mouth can be the best, or worse publicity up and down the road.
Let's keep talking and comparing notes. Cheers Chris

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I am glad this topic came up as I was honestly thinking about the bread maker this am and taking in in the caravan. Actually wondered if it was worthwhile or if I should just give it to our daughter. After hearing the prices of bread, I have decided to keep it for the van. As usual this forum has helped us out yet again.

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Ellen

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We carry a bread maker and run it from the solar panels / house batteries via an inverter.
We have baked a loaf whilst driving..........hot bread for lunch!

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Peter

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bugger that find a bakery and have a coffee and a croissant at the same time

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