Government advice to keep in some supplies and order of importance

[FindingMeno]

I realise that there have been two or three threads on the recent advice to have some supplies in order to be more resilient.
However, it's easy to go down a rabbit hole. For example, with food and water, do you go as far as alternative methods of cooking, suitable cookwear for this, vessels for water, means to purify water etc.
What do you focus on first given many have limited money and space?
Cash? Batteries? Lanterns/ torches/ head torches? Ways to keep warm?
What would you list be, in order of priority, to build up a "stockpile" to see your family through a short period of disruption?

Once you're at there's no running water, no gas, no electricity, no mobile phone signal, no petrol, can't go outside because of radiation or zombies or whatever level - best to die quickly imho. The sort of thing it's more sensible to prepare for are what if you suddenly lost your job, or broke your leg/arm and had significantly reduced mobility, or your car is written off and you can't get a hire car or replacement, or you usually rely on a supermarket delivery and they can't come this week. Do you have appropriate supplies to keep you and your family fed, clothed, warm, to get to where you need to be, in the short term.

3 days initially.

Things you can just open.
Crackers, nuts, dried fruit, tinned fish, biscuits, chocolate, stuff you like and eat anyway. Cereal, dried milk powder. (Can be used in cooking day to day)

Drinks. Pop, water, fruit juice, milk/plant milk.

Warm clothing: gloves, fingerless gloves (about £2 from the corner shop) hats, scarf, blankets slippers and warm socks. Good waterproof sturdy footwear.

Light. 2 lanterns. Batteries.

Small battery radio. Batteries.

A bag with emergency stuff.

Documents uploaded to email/phone etc. in grab bag in waterproof pouch.

Cash/change for the corner shop/bus/taxi.

Power bank if you can afford it.

Cat litter, bin bags, bucket. Or soil. Instead of cat litter)

Piss can go on the compost heap. (Bob Flowerdew's recycled beer compost accelerator. ) Or down the drain.

If don't think getting broken into for personal houses looting will be a worry. They haven't even done that in Ukraine.

Plus you presume you can take on me, dd and our 3 sons. No idea what perfectly legal weapons we have in our house. If six people broke in meaning us serious harm I really do not fancy their chances. Plus I know the house. Maybe I need to keep a kettle near the top of the stairs to make some boiling oil? Must buy spare kettles and sugar......

It's about predictable prepping. Like power cuts. Not nuclear war, threads, zombies. As a woman I'd rather murder my dd and kill myself than face gang rape. I'm not prepping for that. It's vanishingly unlikely on a Island.

War would look totally different. Cyber attacks. Take out all banking, bring down the nhs.. bring down visa and Mastercard. Bring down the forces IT systems etc. That's what defence is working on right now and that's terrifying enough. Can we can get anti missiles to the bases before they are hit? Frankly I don't want to know. But I can't prep for that. That's what the defence teams are doing right now. All of the above.

If the potential issue is lack of gas/electric, wouldn’t it be easier to have things that you can eat straight from the pack? Camping stoves are small and not very practical - surely you would forego your pasta and pesto in favour of easier food?

We do a mix some tinned meals - curry, chilli and instant rice pouches and quicker cooking dried pasta.
The thing that takes the longest in experience is getting the water to boiling!

We have a 1 ring camping stove in a box it fits a large pan on it.

Have a gas bbq and also power bank to run kettle etc as son is disabled so was given it from.the power company. If not it's cold beans.