Shelf food for young kids?

[RealReginaPhalange]

What would you consider as non perishable/shelf food for picky 5 and 2 year old? Easy when it comes to snacks but anything more nutritious?

For what purpose? Meals? Or just generally stockpiling after seeing all the threads on here?
Rice pudding
Cereal bars / flapjacks
Crackers
Bread, pastries/cake, biscuits
Tinned fruit in juice

Oats, for overnight oats or porridge.

Dried fruit, tinned fruit, crackers, bread sticks, cereal (I know MN thinks all cereal is poison but it is often fortified and is very shelf stable). Rice pudding, custard. Pepperami sticks.

Pasta - serve with pesto or a basic tomato sauce or with tuna and tinned sweetcorn.
Baked beans - keep a loaf in the freezer, or baking potatoes keep well in a cool dark space.
tinned fruit
lentils, coconut milk, spices and an onion for a simple Dahl.
chickpeas, tahini, olive oil for a simple hummus to go with breadsticks and crackers

I was just coming on to post this! So far my list is:
Dried and tinned fruit
Shelf-stable yogurt pouches (Ella's Kitchen type things)
Tuna
Sweetcorn
Crackers
Rice pudding
Oat bars
Peanut butter

Is this a stockpiling thing?! Again?!

Tomato meatballs from Aldi where my fussy kids staple, mixed with instant chicken noodles and tinned sweetcorn …. followed closely by sausage and beans or spaghetti and beans on toast. My grandchildren recently discovered Heinz tinned bolognese on a camping trip and I now keep a few tons of that in case we have an unexpected sleepover. But they also really like ambient stored torteloni from Aldi with passata and a pinch of mixed herbs thrown in. They also like pepperonis and you can get them ambient stored . Charcuterie meat freezes pretty well too. Crackers store well and you can get ambient stored squeeze cheese like primula and that’s perry kid friendly

If you're talking about prepping i am inclined to think that children would become a lot less fussy if a limited menu became available.

In the long run yes, they are going to have to, but I cant imagine my 20months old to be very understanding in the first week or so and it just got me thinking. Thats it

Nope, its not.

Thank you. This is very helpful. How young are your kids?

@cuckoolodger @AtleastitsnotMonday some good ideas. I was mainly thinking what am i going to feed them if there is power outage and i cant cook/warm up anything.

@cuckoolodger @AtleastitsnotMonday some good ideas. I was mainly thinking what am i going to feed them if there is power outage and i cant cook/warm up anything.

@cuckoolodger @AtleastitsnotMonday some good ideas. I was mainly thinking what am i going to feed them if there is power outage and i cant cook/warm up anything.

@cuckoolodger @AtleastitsnotMonday some good ideas. I was mainly thinking what am i going to feed them if there is power outage and i cant cook/warm up anything.

@cuckoolodger @AtleastitsnotMonday some good ideas. I was mainly thinking what am i going to feed them if there is power outage and i cant cook/warm up anything.

Single pint cartons of uht milk
Cereal
Peanut butter jars
Some bread products are relatively long life - packaged croissants and wraps.
Noodles that can be cooked using a kettle.
Tins of tuna & baked beans etc

I have a camping gas stove & a pack of gas cans so i know i can cook pasta/heat tins etc. I keep plenty of flour in, milk powder, dried yeast and bottled water, i could make flat pan breads etc if needed.

Mini tins of fruit salad or tinned pears or apricots or sliced peaches.
Jars of apple compote.
Mini tins of tuna.

Crackers/Swedish toasts
Marmite/peanut butter.
Large butter beans.

Cereal bars.
Biscuits.
Sardines.

When we used to go camping I took things like eggs, oats for porridge, long life milk, marmite, jam, peanut butter, honey, tinned fruit and tinned steam puddings, ready made custard. Tinned Chickpeas and jar of tahini to make houmous (you will also need a tube of garlic puree and bottle of lemon juice).
Flour for chapati and pancakes.
Rice.
Tinned curry and chilli (stagg veggie chilli is ok).
Butter beans are a good substitute for mash potato.
Tinned potatoes. (Nicer if you slice and pan fry them).
Tinned corned beef, spam for in omelettes and stewed steak.
Tinned fish, tuna, sardines, mackerel (or whatever they are used to).

A means of off grid cooking is important.

Tilda kids rice sachets - no nasties and have veg in, we always have a few in for quick lunches etc. DD loves them, and I’m sure she’d probably eat them cold although they’d be easy enough to heat up in a pan over a camping stove I reckon.

Pots of jelly, with fruit or otherwise

Will yours eat tinned tuna or mackerel? Get some sweetcorn and mayo, packet of wraps in your freezer (which would go off but you’d want to defrost the wraps anyway!) Or you could spread on crackers?

You can grate cheese and freeze in portions - again if the concern is the freezer goes off you can use up the defrosted cheese over the day or 2 until things are hopefully restored!

Cereal bars.

Dates.

peanut butter and other nut butters or sun/ pumpkin seed butter if there’s allergies.

Smoked sausage or polish kabanos etc?

If you have a local free group on Facebook then ask on there is anybody has an old camping stove. I got one from mine about 5 years ago with 6 tins of gas. Alternatively stock up on tea light candles, if you put a pan on the edge of 2 bricks with a gap between and light a few tea lights underneath, it absolutely WILL heat up, just takes longer.

Buy a gas camp stove, they are fairly cheap. We have one as we camp a lot, it came in handy when we had a power cut (we get them often).
We always have a stock of tins and dry goods, mainly beans , beans & sausages, tuna, Mac & cheese, noodles, custard, rice pudding, fruit, tinned potatoes.

Lot of good advices. I will have a look at camp gas stoves!

I grew up in the 70's, it's why I always had a gas oven and hob.
Aldi individual packed chocolate chip brioche are dated at least a month ahead. If there's a power outage you'll lose your freezer stuff.