On Sunday the 25th of March (from 7am to 4pm), our club hosted our second Bunnings Sausage Sizzle fundraiser at Bunnings, Balcatta. The weather for the day was nice and pleasant, at least it wasn’t like the scorching temperatures of last year! A lot of members turned up to the event with their cars and everyone also brought with them some large ice blocks to keep the drinks cold for the day. Everyone that came pitched in and helped prepare, cook and serve the sausages and drinks.

This year we ordered less buns and sausages (around 900 this time!) and it was good to see that we nearly sold all of them with only a small amount left over on the day.

It was a bit concerning for a while with the preparations, I ordered the sausages and rolls like last year, however after nearly a week I didn’t hear back from Tip Top bakeries confirming our order so I made a call to see if everything was ok… to my shock and surprise Tip Top Bakeries no longer supplied rolls anymore for fundraisers, so it came down to some last minute chasing down some bakeries to work out what options we had. I settled on buying rolls from my local Woolworths store (that has a bakery) as it was convenient and also the cheapest available.

I didn’t want to necessarily pick the cheapest as quality is important, however unfortunately other options priced themselves out of consideration. To make matters a bit worse, when I picked them up on Saturday they didn’t supply any bags, thinking that we were having our fundraiser on the Saturday. Luckily the baker suggested using some big bags to keep them fresh (this is what they use on their big bread towers to keep their bread fresh while waiting to be packed). Overall, I was very happy with the quality of the sausages and rolls this year, all things considered.