In the food thread erasergirl mention my carrying pots in my get home bag I carry the small set out of the coleman max cook set walmart sells
http://www.walmart.com/ip/Coleman-Anodized-Cookset/8223670
A super cat stove made from a potted meat can and a peice of heavy alum. foil as a wind screen

I have carried a wire rimmed stainless steel mug when in the woods for years. along with a 12 oz plastic measuring cup and a spoon. was my cooking set up . There was a time that lipton cup-o-soup came in cream of mushroom, broccoli and cheese and cream of chicken , the chicken is the only one they still make. Right after I got out of high school I roamed about for a while A box of instant outmeal, instant grits and each of the above soups a box of minute rice and couscous tea and sugar, salt and pepper. Every thing was unboxed, stuff not in packets were packed in doubled ziploc bags and stored in a 3lb coffee can which could double as a pot too 7-8 small cans of chicken, tuna or beef or ham supplemented with wild edible plants fish and game would easily get me by for a couple of weeks. Folding silicone cups and folding handle mugs have replaced the older stuff and I don’t go for weeks but a little cous cous or rice cup-o-soup packet and outmeal or grits still ride just in case I have to over night
Roy