Hot water means going outside to the rain barrel, then sticking it on a wood fire.
If you cannot put your hands on a quart of water, it heat it…you will have huge problems.
Plenty of Birch (crazy wood) and streams in the northeast. You can cut the bark into strips for excellent tinder, and you can make a make a pretty water tight bucket out of sheets of the bark. As long as there is water in your birch bucket it won't burn over a fire, even as it boils the water.
I don't know if the Boy Scouts teaches kids anything anymore however.
> Hot water means going outside to the rain barrel, then sticking it on a wood fire <
True. And it’s easy enough to do if you have the water and the wood to spare. So if you live in a sparsely populated rural area, I guess you’d be okay.
But if you live in the suburbs or (gasp!) in a city, I still think plain old canned food is your better bet.
I will concede that my way would require more storage space. So there’s that.
Our property has water and streams all over the place.
We are fortunate that way.