Jim,
Something just occurred to me as far as an overlooked essential: food
plates and bowls. The glass mixes (Corelle, etc) are far better than the
stoneware for cleanliness and durability, but they can still be broken. I found
out recently that the cheap, media tie-in dishes that extol Disney and various
other children's movies are not only unbreakable plastic, but
are immune to gun cleaning solvent--I used an old one, figuring to throw
it away
when done. But a quick rinse with a dab of soap and it was clean--impervious
to the chemical, not even the cartoon image was blistered. I then tried acetone,
gasoline and an acidic household cleaner. These things are brutally tough.
We picked up the last batch for the kids at a Goodwill [thrift store] for five
cents a plate or bowl. It may look funny at your campsite or TEOTWAWKI eating
off Bug's Life or
Buzz Lightyear plates, but at least you'll have plates to eat off.
Or dig with.
Or mix chemicals in. Or play frisbee with. - Michael
Z. Williamson