Back when I was a little tougher I never carried a stove or a pot. I could make a nice cook fire out of the match-sized wood litter that carpets the area around campsites, and find a large enough can to cook in either left there or in a nearby garbage can. Just need a can opener to clean up the can. Those days are gone. Everyone is all so conscious about cleaning up and garbage is increasingly hard to get at. Stove and pot now. Besides, uncertainty sort of wears on one after a while.