I'm sure someone has thought of this before, but I just thought of a perfect, cheap, alternative to wooden dowel rods - wooden chopsticks!!! Even the plastic ones would be good. I just bought 40 chopsticks for about $4, wooden dowel rods would cost me $4,50 for 12 plus shipping! They are good and strong, so all I need to do is hacksaw them to the right size - gonna try it today 
....... Sometimes you can find the thin dowels in craft shops and hardware/lumber stores. They're fairly cheap in the hardware/lumber stores.......
We have all at some time along the way used those from a hardware store but they are not food safe :( Who knows where they have been and what has crawled on/over them. That's why using plastic drink straws in a much better option. Plus no saw needed - every day scissors work best :)
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