It may be too late, but if you need firestarters ... go to goinggear.com, he has a ton of good firestarters for reasonable prices (not to mention lights & carabiners, and the like). He does have a lot of videos up on youtube about how to start fires with the various things he does sell. He tends to ship priority mail & if you let him know you need it quick, he'll get it out quick.

An alternative on the dryer lint & wax is dryer lint with petroleum jelly... If you go on goingprepared.com in the forums, there's something on how to make it. (The guy that runs goinggear runs it, so you can PM him on there if you have questions)

If you want something simple & small to cook in, you can make a pepsi can stove:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Beverage-can_stove

As for food to bring... I tend to bring cliff bars & cliff shot bloks. I don't particularly like either, but they're great when I'm hungry and have been being active.

When I'm camping, I tend to just go to the grocery and get the dry bag of pasta or rice that you just add water & cook for 5-10 mins.

Couscous is very easy to cook and lightweight.

I tend to bring a little bag of spices to add - black peppercorns, coriander or cumin seeds, some dry sundried tomatos, chipolte peppers, things like that.