Thank you Oldtimer! It would be good for everyone to be able to do a test run like that. You can also try going camping with only what you can carry on your back and go way out in the woods. Try that for a weekend. Take a book of edible plants if you have one (I would think hunting season would be ideal so you could get meat with out getting in trouble for poaching). Any idea is good to throw out so everyone can tweak it to suite them.