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?

I think having the foods you are most used to eating is very comforting in times of crisis. Rather than a completely alien diet during a difficult time.

Hi all, been lurking a while and have a hoarder gene that causes me to keep a stockpile anyway!
i make my own jams/cordial, so tend to have a stash of each to see me through to their next season.
And I buy bulk from ALDI when things are on special as you tend not to see them for ages again.
I also have a great Anker solar charger and battery pack for camping which work fabulously. Have used them in power cuts too.
Will be making elderberry cordial come the autumn as it's a great health tonic and antiviral and is useful in tough times
What is the egg tip I missed that? Intrigued

That’s was me. Egg shells are porous, so when we went offshore sailing for a few weeks, we’d take eggs, Vaseline the shells and food the eggs would stay fresh for weeks without refrigeration.
We’d also wrap a wine bottle in sacking, wet it and tie it to the rigging. The wind chill would cool it down considerably, which was great because we had no fridge.

Having lived through a major disaster I think you're getting a bit carried away.

What you need most is water, including blocks of ice in the freezer to use at first; a wind up radio, a camp stove & matches, an old-style cell phone that keeps its charge a long time, those silver blankets that are in first aid kits, a v well stocked first aid kit, dehydrated foods, loo roll, a spade to dig a toilet in the garden, batteries and a torch.

The pesto, not so much.

The other useful tip I have is practise using stuff and techniques fairly often in a non-stressy environment and get the children involved and playing too. Then if you need to do things in a emergency, everyone is familiar with how things work, and if you are incapacitated, the show goes on.

But pesto is so tasty, and keeps well!

I lived on compo rations for a week as a child as part of a Dad experiment. You can live on them, but I’d rather have a choice.

Oh and hand sanitizer

The pesto, not so much.

Depends what you’re prepping for though, surely?
I have a load of pesto, my main worry is job loss/being snowed in/getting sick.

@picklepost great tips thanks. The pesto is more for illness etc - the kind of easy meal that can be thrown together, pasta, pesto some frozen peppers etc more than a major disaster.
I have tins and other stuff that are more long term prep.

Someone asked about checking the milk earlier, I have long life unsweetened soya which is fine with cereal and to use on its own :) But it's a good tip.

I love pesto too 💕

Just remembering how it was during those days of crisis. Honestly, it's not how you might imagine. You will be SO grateful for the basics. Ability to make contact is super important bench the radio & cell.

Power likely to be out so everything confined to Salish first hours.

Worth keeping things tidy enough so you don't trip in the dark, that sort of thing.

And to know exactly where your kits are. Keep phone & radio to hand (perhaps by bed) and matches in waterproof container.

It bothered me not to be able to vacuum for weeks so I keep a really good brush and shovel now.

Daylight not Salish 🙄

@picklepost haha I like salish. Can I ask what kind of disaster you were caught up in? No worries if it's outing! Your practical suggestions are really great. I have things, but they're not well organised so think I'll have a sort out this weekend.
I have a battery powered radio but a wind up would undoubtedly be better.
I've checked my solar lamp/charger and it works fine with laptops and phones although it is a bit slow but that's fine.

Loads of decent wind up radios on amazon mmmgoats, I got one ages ago, has a charging port for mobiles and a flashlight too.

People used to routinely "butter" eggs - same idea as the vaseline- because before the days of intensive farming, you got surplus eggs in the summer and relatively few in the winter. That way you had a stash to last you through the winter.
A bit of an odd one, but I randomly picked up a pack of bean curd knots in a Chinese supermarket because they looked interesting.
Turned out to be absolutely delicious with a really satisfying, meaty texture. You just soak in water then use in hot or cold dishes. They absorb the flavour of whatever you add them to, not much flavour of their own, but high protein and the texture makes it feel like a proper meal.
You can get sticks as well as knots.
I'll be investing in a few more bags next time I'm near a Chinese shop.