A true blue Pilbarian has solved the dilemma of how to cook healthy meals for one without leaving a mess in the most Australian way possible.

Karratha local Marc Habermehl was nominated by his mate Grant Lawler for Australian of the Year for perhaps the most heroic act in history: slapping a Chiko roll and meat pie on the barbie.

Mr Habermehl came up with his game-changing idea while trying to solve the problem of how to cook dinner for himself without having to clean up afterwards.

“I know that if you want something bad enough then you can make it happen,” he said.

“After staring at the Weber for a half hour and thinking about my pies and Chikos, I had an epiphany: cook my little beauties in the Weber.”

Mr Habermehl said he could trace his love of Chiko rolls back to a childhood spent watching his dad eat two for lunch every day. “I’d be in the back seat of the car eating a vegemite sandwich telling myself that when I became a man, I too was going to eat Chiko rolls,” he said.

“Regarding meat pies, there’s no need to explain why I love them; they’re the business. If Bob Dylan gets a Nobel Prize for literature then the person that invented the pie should be Knighted and Sainted.”

Mr Lawler, a former colleague of Mr Habermehl in Brisbane, excitedly contacted thePilbara News about this “front page exclusive”. “There is a genuine Australian hero currently living locally,” he said.

“Last night while discussing home brew recipes he told me he just cooked a meat pie and a Chiko roll on the Weber.

“I was so impressed I’ve nominated him for Australia of the Year.

“He once calculated how many thousands of sausages you could cook per second using the natural gas feeding into the Brisbane ammonia plant.”