dra Ha, sorry if my venting was annoying. I guess I'm really not looking forward to a lot of things, and the food is one of them. I'll look at that sub again but I actually had a thread on here asking people what they ate. I got lots of suggestions, all of them very friendly and helpful, none of the suggestions are for stuff I'm excited about eating, but that's life. I skipped anything that mentioned dehydrating my own food, because I don't have access to an oven. I did look at thrift stores for a dehydrator and maybe I'll still get lucky. Anyway i'm not sure if you can dehydrate salad/ But also I'm being stupid in not testing what I'm going to eat before I go out there. I can't be sure what pot I need until I try making the stuff. I'm really interested in the FBC thing people keep mentioning. I'm doing a search for it now.