Critique my stockpile please

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Hi all, I’ve been slowly amassing a stockpile based on what we use and when there’s an offer on, I’ll buy 2 or 3 of said item and store the rest.
Can you please critique what I have, and give me areas for improvement? Also; if I’m missing a vital category, please tell me! We’ve been using our garage and storing in large plastic bins so far, it actually hasn’t taken up any room, it doesn’t look like much compared to what some people on this board have! Obviously I have at least 2 weeks worth of food in at any one time; my freezer & cupboards are always full because we are very fortunate. So obviously this list doesn’t include freezer stuff.

Tins

Macaroni cheese x5
Spaghetti strands x10
Baked beans x10
Soup (Heinz mixed) x20
Mixed spicy beans x10
Butter beans x5
Kidney beans x5

Sauces

Cheese sauce x5
Tomato pasta sauce x5
Madras sauce
Thai red curry sauce
Coconut milk

Packets

Stuffing balls mix
Bread sauce mix

Pasta & pulses (dried)

1kg Red lentils
1kg spaghetti x2
Super noodles x20
250g fine egg noodles

Sweets

Marmalade
Lemon curd
Marmite
Jam
Caramel
Red cherry pie filling x2
Peach slices x5
Sponge pudding x5
Custard x5
Rice pudding x5

Flavourings/seasonings

Salt
Goose fat
Olive oil
Vegetable oil
Chicken oxo
Beef oxo
Wholegrain mustard
Jalapeños

Odds and ends

Breadsticks
Teabags
20L water
1L whiskey
Cat food (pouches meat) x40
Cat food (dried) 1kg
Cat flea medicine 3 months worth

Cleaning products

Bleach 1L
Washing up liquid
Anti bacterial spray 1L

Toiletries

Nail brush
Toothpaste
Shower gel
Children’s toothpaste
Kids mouthwash
Kids shampoo
Sanitary towels x40
Tampons x60
Toilet rolls x16

Medicines

Migraleve
Diarrhoea capsules
Lemsip x10
Savlon
Compeed
Dulcolax
Kool n soothe strips
Vicks vaporub
Pregnancy tests x2
Nurofen Plus
After sun
Sun cream stick
Vicks first defence
Dioralyte
EMLA cream
Small pair scissors
Extra inhaler prescriptions x3

pineapple is our family favourite. I do big batches (and then eat too much and burn my mouth).

How appetising does that look?

yes but just imagine it redhydrated in a bolognese sauce when beef has tripled in price.

Let me know if you die

I promise I will @cloudtree .

Here it is in all its vacuum sealed glory . Wrapped in baking parchment first and an oxygen absorber and moisture absorber added.

Are you actually me Bellini? We even have the same worktop and chopping board.

Was that a whole pack of turkey mince or just part?

catsofa these are the lantern/powerbanks, then I just typed in on amazon ‘throw with usb charger’ and got the first one I saw. They’re used for cars usually I think, but they heat up nicely and they’re good for an emergency like a boiler breaking down or a power outage. Don’t forget hot water bottles for everyone too!

A whole 500g pack.
If am you and you are me .... there's a Beatles song in there somewhere!

Hot water bottles are brilliant!

Thanks that looks great, I might invest in one!

first aid kit
increase your loo roll quantity- just in case
chlorine tablets
water purification tablets
water should be 2-3 L per person per day

calpol, paracetamol and ibuprofen
hay fever meds

Thanks for this, will also be copying your lisr

Rubbish/nappy bags: that way if the bins don’t get collected you can double bag the smelly rubbish and pile up the dry rubbish in larger bags. Our bin didn’t get collected for a month (in this heat wave!) and using that system I had no flies/maggots/smells :)

I am really surprised by some of this and the suggestions.
Why would our rubbish not be collected?
Why would we be making sure we buy tins that have ring pulls or buying extra tin openers?
One of the biggest manufaturers and global distributors of paracetemol is in England. Why are people saying to buy paracetemol?
We produce most of the cat litter we use - am sure we can produce more if needed.
We export 50% of our food production to the EU.
The EU is not the world- we can buy from America, Australia, China, Japan, South America etc.

Some of this is just panic and scaremongering. It is sensible nearer the time to stockpile some items you know you need - and the government will make sure they do so with particular medications- that are only produced in the EU if it looks like there will be no deal but we really must not fall for the panic and scaremongering.

Have you seen the threads on here when the rubbish isn't collected? Only takes a day or two delay and people start yelling.
And I assume all the rubbish collectors are not hugely well paid and need to feed their families and get to work. Which is ok if they haven't got to juggle getting food in and there are no petrol supply blips.
As I have said lots of times on this and other threads, there may be resolvable hiccups rather than catastrophes but wouldn't you rather avoid them too?

@LuluJakey1 - how does the paracetamol get to the shops? That's where the likely pinch points are - in distribution. Our Just In Time system does not include Tesco or whoever having months of stock in place.
I assume it will sort itself out, albeit more expensively for the consumer but can you afford to sit and wait for a week for the food distribution network to get sorted. Or longer?

My rubbish wasn’t collected for 4 weeks: fact, not scaremongering. Some areas of Birmingham had major issues the other year when nothing was collected and they had rats etc.

People prep because of their own personal health issues, worries about income, strike action affecting vital services, risk of flooding etc. You don’t have to, but maybe take a minute to imagine what you would do if your local bin collectors went on strike, or fuel shortages happened, or if all your accounts were frozen because of fraud or cyber attack, or because you suffered serious ill health, or major floods/fires/snow affected supply chains*

*all of which actual happen in the real world.

I am slowly starting to pick up the need for prepping particularly for supply chain disruptions around Brexit and also the cost of food inevitably going up afterwards. What foods/non food items do all of you envisage rising significantly after Brexit?

@boringbertha - fresh fruit and veg. March is when harvests are a long way off - there's a scary name for it among veg growers "the hunger gap". Hopefully as stuff becomes more seasonally available, it will be cheaper for that period of time. Look at eating seasonally and stuff might be cheaper. E.g strawberries in January is unlikely to be a cheap do.

Bellinisurge - Good point about the fruit/veg! time to think about planning a veg patch maybe in my small inner city garden. Or possibly blanching & freezing available stuff beforehand and also investigating what other products can be bought & frozen such as butter & cheese. I'm on a limited income so it's a real concern if prices go up even by small amounts.

Also very keen on starting to gather together knowledge/know how for other worse case scenarios however unlikely they might seem atm.

Ooo goodie goodie let's all join the I'm alright Jack party.

And come on here to gloat about our long list and how well prepare and goody we are for taking care of ourselves. Slow handclap.

@daisychain01 - this is the Prepper topic. You don't need a lot of money or space to prep. Spend some time on the subject and you will hopefully see that.
As for "I'm alright, Jack" - my daughter comes before people I don't know.

@daisychain01 what would you like us to do instead then? Genuine question. I don't seem to have any control over Brexit.... but I can have control over what supplies I choose to build up in case they are needed. You do it your way and I'll do it mine thanks.

Each to their own, I agree wholeheartedly in considering what might happen with supplies post Brexit given that we know the JIT nature of supply chains of our major supermarkets.

People need to give their head a wobble taking time to type up inventory lists and obsessing about getting evaluations of what they have in their garage. The fact MN has created a board so people can satisfy what is fast becoming stockpile porn, is enabling panic mode to set in.

@daisychain01 only "stockpile porn" if you get off on it. Unsurprisingly, I don't.

No I mean it like the threads on "property porn" - it's becoming a bit too much of an obsession to be healthy. People need to keep it in perspective. Which I feel is compromised when there's a whole board on MN for people to do this stuff.