Beginner here - does this sound like a reasonable stockpile?

[mmmgoats]

I've always liked to have a fair bit extra in, but thanks to MN I decided to get really organised and ensure I'm covered for (hopefully) every eventuality. It's actually really helped my anxiety as I feel a bit more in control.

Just wondered if anyone could take a look and see if this sounds reasonable prep wise, basically just got extra of what we normally eat in (for three of us) - feel like I'm missing obvious things!

Cupboard Stuff
Red/Green Pesto: 10 jars
Beans/Spaghetti hoops: 10 tins
Pasta Sauce: 10 jars
Curry Paste: 5 jars
Veg - peas/new potatoes/carrots/spinach - 5 tins each
Black Beans - 5 cans
Butter Beans - 5 cans
Broad Beans - 5 cans
Mixed Beans - 5 cans
Kidney Beans - 4 cans
Ravioli - 5 cans
Soups - mixed - 10 cans
Rice - 1kg + a selection of microwavable packs
Couscous - mixed selection of individual packs
Lentils - 1kg
Quinoa - 500g
Pasta - 1kg
Spaghetti - five packs
Passata - 8 cartons
Chopped Tomatoes - 10 cans
Tomato Puree - 3 tubes
Tuna - 10 cans
Peas - 4 cans
Corned beef - 2 cans
Sardines in sauce - 5 packs
Mackerel - 5 packs
Stewing steak - 3 tins
Jumbo Oats
Weetabix
Muesli
2 litre bottles water - 5
2kg coffee beans
Tea bags - mix
Hot Chocolate - big tub of powdered
Long life milk (currently 4 cartons will probably pick up more)
Tortillas - 2 packs
Mix of herbs and marinades/rubs
Slow cooker sauce packs
Mixed nuts
Nut Butters/Nutella/Marmite/Marmalade and Honey

Frozen
Avocado
Onions
Peppers (mixed)
Cabbage
Spinach
Herbs
Peas/sweetcorn
Carrots
Broc + cauli
Meat - assorted
Fish fillets
Fish Fingers [ who doesn't love a fish finger sandwich?!]
ice cream
Bread
Just Rol Pastry - two packs

Household
Candles (two bags tealights plus various)
Solar lamp + charger
three 6 litre collapsable water containers [empty but ready to go]
Torches x 2
Toilet Rolls (50)
Mouthwash & toothpaste [bulk packs of each]
Batteries
Full first aid kit including bandages, plasters, wound wipes, antiseptic cream, cold + flu tablets and sachets, digestion aids and medicines, paracetamol and ibuprofen, migraine tablets, allergy tablets

Plan to get
Camping stove/hob [we have regular power outages - not sure they'd be ideal for inside though?]
Life straws x 3
Couple more torches
Baby wipes
Soap
Laundry Powder
Energy Bars [less about prepping, more about DH loving them for walking holidays but handy none the less]

Now I've written it all down, I probably sound a bit OTT? But the snow last year really made me see I needed more in, especially if we get hit with a power cut around the same time [I know I can't 100% rely on my freezer stores but I like to have it stocked incase we get ill/can't get out for a few days or i'm too lazy to think about what to eat!]
Do you think I've missed anything obvious?

We're just hopping on to call for some peace and love, please! If we could draw a line now and get the thread back on track, that would be marvellous.

@petrolpump28

No confederate flag, my flag is yellow and says “Don’t Tread on me”.

Thanks Sophie!

Yes thanks Sophie! We just want a civilised thread, this has deviated far beyond the OP’s question.

Looking at your list, it seems very low fat.
No butter (margarine if that's your thing), oil to cook with, goose fat or whatever you use.

Have you tried actually using long life UHT milk on Weetabix?

Tins of evaporated milk with added water (approx 50% but adjust to taste) is the closest tasting to milk if you are going to try & use it as straight up substitute milk.
It is worth trying both to see which you can live with before you buy any more.

"Don't tread on me" ?The motto of the Tea Party movement? Hardly peace and live

Peace and, of course, love!!

Trump notoriously called Hillary a "nasty woman".
Are you really a uk mother of two that hates paying over the odds for a banana?

Op, look at getting or even making ghee. It is shelf stable so no fridge required.
@mmmgoats

Less aggressive Confederate survivalist and more like Badger in Wind in the Willows with his storecupboards full of stuff. I like having full cupboards and a pantry and a garden where I grow a lot of my family’s fruit and veg. I like camping and knowing that if the lights go out or the water goes off, we will be ok for a few weeks. I don’t understand why that is a threat to other people, or why it makes them cross.
Back on track. Lifestraws are good, I have two large water butts that are now full again after last night’s rain.
There’s a useful cookbook called Apocalypse Chow, written by an American called Jon Robertson who lives in an area where hurricanes often occur. It’s a fun book, based on the idea that you can live on cold beans out of a tin, or with a bit of planning, you can have delicious and well-balanced meals you actually enjoy.
A lot of camping books have useful tips for eating and managing away from home comforts.
When I used to go sailing, we’d take fresh eggs, cover them in Vaseline and they’d stay fresh for 6 weeks without refrigeration in hot weather.

Peace and Love.
Yes, as an aging hippy, I always have a jar of sprouting seeds in my kitchen; mung or alfalfa usually. A habit that started when I was an impoverished student. It’s a good way of maintaining vitamin levels, and the seeds store for a year happily. Then you bung a handful in a large jar with a sock over the top, pour water in, leave it for 5 mins and drain the water off. Twice a day. Repeat for 3 or 4 days and then you can eat the shoots raw or stir fry them.

Sprouting seeds is a good one. I used old net curtains in the past.
Yummy salad in the middle of winter.

@RedneckStumpy - apologies for pointing out the don't tread on me stuff. Trying to keep politics out of it although i think the expensive banana stuff has tested everyone's patience.
Home made Dehydrated fruit leathers are a good way to get fresh fruit from storage including bananas, by the way. Luv me dehydrator.

Sprouted alfalfa was a winter staple in our house when I was growing up. I don't think there was a great variety of fresh veg on sale out of season back then where we were. DM just used a large-ish glass jar and some netting-type fabric tied over with a rubber band. I've tried doing it myself, but have ended up with very stunted sprouts and lots of seeds that don't seem to sprout. I never seem to have large enough jars about, either! Even our pickles seem to come in jars that aren't that large now...

Worth buying some massive cheapo vinegar or pickles in glass jars for the jars. Vinegar can be decanted for cleaning. Pickles ....? I love pickles but that's just me.
Or buy "sprouting jars" from Amazon.

Mine is a large pasta jar with a broken lid. The sock blocks out the light, which blanches the shoots and stops them being bitter. I found the key was to keep them damp but not wet, and in a warm spot.

DM's sprout jar lived in a draining cupboard over the sink. We don't have anything like that, but I think keeping it in a cupboard on top of something to drain in would work better than out in full light. I think a proper sprouting jar might be easier to set up like that (with a little bowl underneath). Might just invest.

I have a bit of a weird private shopping list forming on my Amazon account... Full of life straws, power banks/solar chargers and the like. DH is getting bemused, but a sprouting jar will fit in nicely.

Wow this escalated quickly, it dropped off threads I’m on!

to the poster who said they didn’t think it was helping my anxiety, thanks for your input but having got stuck in power cuts and flu for a week, it really is!

I know stockpiling pesto and avocado may seem hilarious but I’m going with @bellinisurge advice and keeping stocks of things I use so it’s easy to rotate food and nothing goes to waste.

I’ve got to restock our water
stores as they came in very handy when our water was unexpectedly off for a day recently with no prior warning due to a fault.

Thanks to the posters who pointed out my stores are low fat,
I will look into getting some oils etc.

Never heard the eggs tip that's great... is it only relevant for American washed eggs or also unwashed? I just ask cos I keep mine out on the counter anyway. I'll experiment but DH may add that to his eye roll moments.....

I’ve never eaten an American egg. These were standard Britisheggs.

Stockpiling what you and your family use, even if that is pesto and avocado isn’t daft.
It’s what keeps you grounded, rather than the hunker in a bunker mentality. Like I said, more Badger self-sufficient than USA post-apocalyptic.

Its just about preventing the egg from absorbing air. In general you shouldn't wash the egg until you are about to use it. If you cover the egg it should last longer.