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

Load of rubbish imo.

@daisychain01 - I go on the Prepper board a lot - it's been up for ages, nothing to do with Brexit.
Nope, still not getting off on it. I'm on The Litter Tray a lot too. Does that mean I obsess about cats?

The Preppers board has been hijacked by Brexit bellini I've just looked and all the threads for at least 2 of the 5 pages is devoted to stockpiling for Brexit, so what probably started out as a semi lighthearted wheeze I.e. the ZA, is now into reality mode, as can so easily happen when reality and fantasy get conflated.

It does make me wonder...if people genuinely think it's worth cramming their spare bedroom with cases of baked beans and tampax due to shelves being empty next March, what will they do when their pseudo Tesco's distribution hub dries up? Does that mean the stockpiles die of starvation a bit later than me and DH who are not on this bandwagon?

Actually @daisychain01 prepping for Brexit is the same as prepping for heavy snow or similar. It's on people 's minds at the moment as a likely problem. Just as bad weather is where I live. We also had moorland fires recently near me. That was a new concept for me to consider.

Camping stoves and gas. Where we lived first was all electric. Camping stoves saved our sanity in power cuts and became essential as babies came along (heating bottles etc).

Daisy are you serious?

The preppers board has been around over a year now.

We don’t just talk about Brexit. We talk about all sorts. People just come here for reassurance and advice.

If you don’t like it don’t post here. It’s not hard.

Reassurance and advice? Or feeds insecurity by validating people's anxiety and their stockpiling behaviour. This board is freely available for comment. It doesn't only have to include comments that you agree with.

@daisychain01 - identify one prepper poster who has been stoking panic? All the familiar posters I have seen have been helpful and reasonable.

Batshit.

Good to see whiskey on the list! 😂 but why pregnancy tests?

@strawberrisc - this the Preppers topic. Why not go on the Doghouse topic and tell them all that dogs are shit. Or on the infant feeding topic and tell them all that babies are easy to feed. Or on the telly addicts topic and tell them they are all lazy.

In the last twelve months we have had:

Snow which left us stuck in for a week
Flu (me)
Norovirus (DH)
An 8 hour power cut after someone crashed into a power line
Three consecutive months of expensive car repairs, which left us feeling the pinch

So, I have started a tiny stockpile for these sorts of things. I won't deny that Brexit has been the catalyst that finally got me going, but this is for all those little moments when things go a little awry.

Thus far I have:
Pasta - 2kg plus a pack of lasagne
Couscous - 1 bag
4 tins of beans
4 tins of tomatoes
A tin of potatoes
A tin of peas
A jar of olives
Tomato purée
A tin of anchovies
Powdered milk
UHT milk
Hand sanitiser

I shall be adding to this on a weekly basis from now on. Food, including nice things, batteries for torches, toiletries, cleaning products like washing powder. It's a buffer against things going awry. It's not nuts, it's common sense. I've always done it, it's just now I'm doing it in a conscious, structured way.

In the past I’ve been stuck at home for 3 weeks due to Norovirus. I didn’t know what it was when the first child caught it, so the second picked it and then I did. Luckily DH didn’t and so he was able to shop and feed himself, then the children as they recovered.

It makes sense to have a few days worth of food just in case, regardless of political policies and potential weather problems.

Hope you are on the mend @AdoraBell . You are quite right. Getting stuff put by is treated as a political act by some on MN . As if no one gets sick, it never snows, no one has financial problems...,

Thanks bellini that was a few years ago now, but I have been laid low over the weekend do to some or other lurgy. Firmly on the mend today though 👍