Littlesister – Thank you! I’ll be extra careful walking on the snow and ice 😉 … As to the butane stove idea, you’re very welcome! I have a couple of them myself since they’re fairly inexpensive and readily available – but I only have a few butane canisters in my storage – I need to get a lot more of those when I find a good sale on them. … HERC tea light ovens sound great but they’re pricey. Here’s a website in which a lady describes how she built a small DIY tea light oven for only about $39 US total using an inexpensive toaster oven as the housing (and she discusses how to use one safely): http://www.bluebonnetacres.org/diy-tea-light-oven-off-grid-cooking/ I’d like to try making one of those that myself! … One place you could purchase a pattern (either digital or printed) for a heat-efficient, streamlined DIY fabric thermal cooker called a “Hope SaC” and, in the process, contribute to a worthy charity, is at Cindy Miller’s website ThermalCooking.net I think there may also be free patterns available online for other styles of DIY Wonderbags. If you want to make a DIY fabric Wonder Box/Oven instead, there are free instructions on how to do so at this webpage: http://www.iwillprepare.com/files/pdf/handout-wonder_box_instructions.pdf Also, if you haven’t already seen this one, here’s a link to a nice article about making and using Wonderbags: https://www.survivopedia.com/how-to-make-and-use-a-wonderbag/ … Here’s the full title and author information for that book I mentioned a few days ago, which is available on Amazon: <span style=”text-decoration: underline;”>Living Terrors: What America Needs to Know to Survive the Coming Bioterrorist Catastrophe</span>, by Michael T. Osterholm, Ph.D., M.P.H., and John Schwartz. Among his many credentials, Dr. Osterholm is the director of the Center for Infectious Disease Research and Policy (CIDRAP) based at the University of Minnesota and has served on the National Science Advisory Board for Biosecurity (NSABB), so he knows his stuff! This book was published back in 2001 but most of its content is still quite relevant so I think it’s well worth reading – matter of fact, I think I’m going to read it again 🙂
