The Kid's had a few days to start a collection. The abandoned farm plots near the Ruins have quite a few mature plants left, and the Kid is working on figuring out how to turn those plants into more plants. You have to get seeds and then plant them and then...do stuff to the soil to make it good, and a lot of that is kind of lost on him.

He knows you're supposed to haggle in these situations, but frankly he's been looking to foist off this baking soda since he found it in his pack. He knows it has lots of practical uses, but in his hands, it'll probably just end up going bad after awhile.

"Two carrots an' a tater good?"

He sets the vegetables and the baking soda on the counter.

"What about th' flint? Been rubbin' sticks t'gether. Gets old."

And cold, also.

"Find all this yerself?"