Jumping in---

None of use should be competing when anyone is seeking information. Shouldn't this be about "HYOH?" Summer was brutally hot in a lot of the eastern USA, especially North Carolina through Virginia, where I was over the summer. A week's worth of fuel for me in the summer might be 3.5 to 6 Esbit tablets, assuming I am backpacking and trying to crank out miles. I have lots of toys, but keep going back to a Vienna sausage can for a pot. My cookset: pot, lid, spoon, insulated Ziplock Bowl, titanium wing stove is probably 3 ounces. That may be fine for me with easy resupplies of precooked-prepackaged meals that only neeed water to reconstitute. If I had to buy food in towns and cook it, things would have to be different. If the weather were cold/wet, my plan might have to change. As it is, in summer, I might totally skip coffee for caffeinated gum, coffee beans (maybe in chocolate), or a cold mountain latte made with instant coffee and dry milk. We all have to do what works for us.

CamperMom