Beginner here - does this sound like a reasonable stockpile?

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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?

Oh dear bellini... You're not a dehydrating maniac?!

Are those who stockpile in the uk?

Most of them yes. There is extra interest at the moment due to the possibility of a no-deal Brexit.

What on earth is all this about?! Do you actually think if there's a nuclear war that you're going to be in any fit state to use Pesto?!?!

Nobody is talking about a nuclear war . We are talking about shortages caused by weather, power issues and atm in particular the widely predicted supply chain issues and general price increases caused by a potential no deal brexit.

And quite frankly if you're genuinely asking "what on earth is this about" you must have had your head in the sand and not read any newspapers or watched the news for the past few weeks.

@Powerless - you should do a bit of research.
By the way, your username is actually the title of a very interesting book for UK preppers.

would you share your stuff?

I suspect the OP is planning to share with her immediate family to ensure they can eat for a while if the SHTF.

would you share your stuff?

With who?

Only share with people in my house and parents in law. Anyone else wants it - only if they have something I want. Anyone sticks a gun to my head to steal it? They can take it- I have alternatives.

I’ll only share with people who would be willing to pay my mortgage for a month if I was sick/babysit my DC. I.e. very close relatives.

I’m not handing it out willy nilly. Why on earth should I?

I will share with immediate family.

I would include parents and siblings in that but fortunately they know that I'll nag them to death if they don't have their own stuff and so its easier just to get stuff in. Both of my siblings have done so and DP have promised to.

PIL always have a decent amount of stuff put by anyway. SIL would go there.

so if it was blowing a gale and I was crossing the Pennines and my car broke down and I politely knocked on your door ( baby and toddler as well) would you help me?

@petrolpump28 - in an ordinary situation, I'd help you and send you in your way. If it was an extraordinary situation, when food was short etc, wouldn't. If you chose to travel with a child in a car in difficult circumstances for the people around you, what do you expect if things go wrong and you aren't ready for them. Would you cross the Pennines in bad weather and with difficult circumstances everywhere without spare food and water and warmth. Without telling someone you were travelling.
I know the Pennine crossing routes and have done them in bad weather. I wouldn't be so foolish as to do them without supplies in the car at the best of times.

@GoneWishing - forgot to acknowledge your post .

I ask because I left in sunshine and ran into a freak storm. The locals were happy to rip us off and sell us a banana.

@petrolpump28 . It's the Pennines. Unexpected bad weather is normal. I live in the area. I'm sorry you had a rough time. This thread is about how people would respond in tough times. Not in current times.

And @petrolpump28 -don't you have AA/GreenFlag/RAC or similar? Why, in normal times, would you need more than e.g. use of a landline to make a call to one of them? Didn't you have a mini stash of food and water for the car for crossing the Pennines because you had a child with you?

so if it was blowing a gale and I was crossing the Pennines and my car broke down and I politely knocked on your door ( baby and toddler as well) would you help me?

Of course I would in that situation. We live on a busy intersection where unfortunately there are a number of car accidents. My DH and I can help medically but we also offer water, the loo, a cup of tea, a bottle of water etc.
But in a SHTF situation where it was every one for themselves then I’m afraid I’ll buckle down.

I think there are some useful threads on this topic about how to prep your car for emergencies. Those people you came across are knobs!

no I didnt have a mini stash in the car. It was totally unexpected and freak weather.

I dont understand the prep thing.

We are all just frail little puppets and a dose of a nasty stomach bug reduces us to nothing. Compassion seems to be disappearing.

@petrolpump28 - you are misunderstanding this thread. It is about extreme circumstances. Meeting a couple of prats in an unfortunate but otherwise normal scenario doesn't mean the world is less helpful . In a tricky situation people will be less inclined to be helpful.

@petrolpump28 - if you don't understand what you call "the prep thing " don't bother with it. Your call.
If you go on a long journey, it's a good idea to have some things in the car to make the journey more comfortable, particularly with kids. If you are unlucky enough to break down, it's sensible to have a plan of action . If you are sick, it's sensible to have some bits to hand.
That's all prepping is. You want to do more? Go ahead.
Assuming others will fix all your problems and blaming them if they don't is never a good idea.

In a freak gale expected to last a few hours then I would imagine most people would help (although I suspect they would think you rather odd for knocking at a house and not stopping at a shop, petrol station or cafe instead).

In an extreme, state of national emergency, scenario where everyone has been told to ensure they have food and water to last their family a few weeks and to batten the hatches and stay at home then I doubt you'd meet with as friendly a greeting if you came knocking on the door asking for food. At that point the wise course of action would be for them to turn you away and look out for their own.

Of course these scenarios are highly unlikely to come to pass and so its all largely theoretical but the brexit announcements are causing many who would not ordinarily stockpile to realise that its sensible to have a small stash.

I wonder what a preppers thread in Style and Beauty would look like?

Only because I don’t see the point of coming onto a topic that is clearly marked as a minority interest and heckling. S & B has no interest for me, so I hide it. Prepping, however, has always made sense for a wide variety of reasons. So if you don’t see the point, move on.