Kick butt survival kitchen!

 Our survival/camping kitchen. I've got one of these in each of our "bug-out-bags" a.k.a. "get-out-of-dodge-bags", or in L's case, a "get-home-bag" when she's in college. We each have a 32oz water bottle with the nifty Guyot splash guards and an 18oz canteen "cup" for it, which fits nicely over the bottom of the bottle in the bag, and a German military surplus "Esbit" stove with fuel tabs if fire is not an option.  If fire is an option, we simply put the cup right on the hot coals.  We also have the lids for our cups from an 8oz tub of Philidalphia cream cheese. This helps with a faster boil and saves on the fuel tabs. (update: the cream cheese cover will not work with the esbit fuel. The flame gets too high and scorches the lid. I will conintue to use it with hot coal cooking though. I'm looking for a metal can large enough to cut the end off to form a metal lid.) We can cook so many delicious things with this setup. My advice, research now before some natural (or un-natural) disaster happens, so you will have the food your family likes. It's huge for morale.  (tomorrow we're doing a family taste test for protein bars) And stick a deck of cards in your B.O.B. too. Mental readiness is ninety percent of the challenge.  Prepare for some recreation and stress relief.  (oh and if you have a firearm, don't tell anyone, and conceal it well.  I heard today that during Katrina, in New Orleans, the government was confiscating firearms from legal, registered owners. Bad...very bad. I was unaware that constitutional rights were only valid on sunny days.)