Bring a small cup, plate, or dish if you plan to cook a large meal in a big pot. Though you may want to dry or smoke excess small game or fish, you may opt not to because the environment is too damp, there is too much attention from scavengers like bears, and you don't like the taste of raw or dry small game like rabbit, e.g. so it you cut the small game into pieces and boil it all in a big pot. Because you can't eat it all, you are overwhelmed with worry it will spoil before dinner or breakfast tomorrow; it won't with care. If your big pot is boiled, the liquid becomes sterile and will stay that way if you don't put your dirty fingers or utensils in it at lukewarm. With a lid for the big pot, take your small portion into your cup hot and put the lid back on your big cook pot, allowing the pot to simmer by the fire. Leaving the lid on will protect the water from dust and spoilage bacteria until the next meal, when the pot must be reboiled. Do not push this advice past 1...