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Thank you! I’ve never heard of a fresnel lens, although I have read that making your own solar oven using an insulated box and tin foil is a very INFERIOR product in comparison to those you can order on the Internet - I think that the URL is http://www.solaroven.org/ — or something very close to that.

I think it’s really important to learn how to use such items, NOW, in non-emergency conditions — which is part of the reason that every week we try to cook up a batch of bean soup using only dried beans and ingredients from the food storage supplies — although adding a fresh carrot, a diced potato, half a stalk of celery and minced onion is permissable.

The important thing is to get entirely accustomed to throwing together a GOOD TASTING nutritious soup using beans for the protein part.

My favorite dish from canned good is to boil up a serving of noodles, and then top them off with half a can of the generic store brand, “chili beans” — they are a red bean canned in a thin chili sauce, and they really taste good with noodles — something I happened to discover one day when “playing” with ramen noodles, which are NOT necessary, you can use any kind of pasta from spaghetti to bow ties to elbow.