Any help gratefully received.

[ScienceIsTruth]

Hi, so I've always hoarded food kept my cupboards well stocked 'just in case..', but I'm wondering if there's anything you think I've forgotten.

Here's my list of what I pretty much always have in my cupboards already:

4x 2l thick bleach
8 rolls of kitchen towel
50 toilet rolls
2x 50 dishwasher tabs
2x 1kg dishwasher salt
2x 500ml rinse aid
Several hundred bin bags in various sizes
2-3 months worth of sanpro
16 tins of soup, various flavours
20 tins of tuna chunks in oil
2 lg tins pink salmon
1 tin red salmon
1 tin anchovies
1 lg tin herring in tomato sauce
1 tin sardines in oil
4 tins bacon grill
3 tins corned beef
8 tins chopped tomatoes
1 tin sliced mushrooms
3 tins new potatoes
1 tin baby carrots
3 tins sweetcorn
3 lg jars bockwurts (8)
8 tins of various beans, eg, kidney, butter beans, mixed, etc
12 tins baked beans
3 tins baked beans with sausage
3 packs 160 teabags plus loose tea
1kg coffee mate
5kg various pasta/spaghetti
2kg basmati rice
2kg risotto rice
1kg pudding rice
1.5 kg couscous
1.5kg split green peas
1.5kg split red lentils
1kg yellow lentils
1kg green lentils
1kg dried marrowfat peas
1kg pearl barley
500g dried soup mix (pulses/lentils,etc)
1kg dried fried onion
15 packets angel delight and other pudding mixes
5 packets various biscuits
10 packets/boxes various crackers
5 jars passage
4 jars grilled peppers
4 jars pasta sauce
7 jars various other sauces, eg, hunters chicken, fajitas sauce, etc.
2 jars feta cheese in oil
2 jars stuffed mini peppers
1 jar garlic cloves in oil
1 jar pâté
3 lg jars morello cherries
1 jar pesto
12 x 500g box of cereals (various)
2kg oats
5kg various dried fruits
3kg cocoa powder
Approx 2-3kg chocolate for baking/eating 3.25kg various nuts (chopped, ground, whole, salted, etc)
15 packs noodles, various flavours (3-400g each)
4 packs plain noodles, 500g each
10 jars preserves
4 jars honey
2 jars choc spread
40 jars/bottles various condiments, ketchups, chutney, pickled onions, etc.
8 jars Bisto
80 various stock cubes
5x 1.5kg strong bread flour
3x 1.5kgs plain flour
2x 1.5kg self raising flour
8x 1.5kg other flours, eg, rye, spelt, 00, etc
8 tins custard + some powdered
2 tins condensed milk
5x 800g tins fruit, various.

I've also got quite good stocks of cleaning and washing stuff (eg, shampoo, deodorant, soap, fabric conditioner, etc), but I'd be here all day if I listed everything.
I've just ordered 2 months supply of pet food (only has 6 month shelf life), plus I already have a month in stock here of tinned pet food that keeps much longer.

I think I need some more flour and kitchen towels/toilet rolls. Would appreciate any recommendations for much larger airtight storage containers for flour as I make all my own bread, so really get through it.

Thanks, and please be gentle.

yeast
oil
salt
lard
butter
cheese
crackers/long life wraps
vitamins
lots of UHT milk/evaporated milk

sugar

Ooh, thanks.

Forgot about UHT milk and salt. Will add those to my list.

Don't use yeast often as I have a sourdough starter that I made and use weekly, but probably still worth keeping a little as an emergency.

Forgot about getting spare oil and fats. Think I've got 2 x 1l bottles olive oil, and 1x 3l veg oil, which is already open and being used.

I've got about 1kg cheese in the fridge, but should get some spare to keep in the freezer. I know it goes crumbly, but should be ok for cooking if nothing else.

Definitely need vitamins as I'm meant to take them daily anyway.

Thanks again.

Didn't think of that either!

Used to have a decent stock of sugar as we only use it in cooking, but our builders have nearly got through the lot in their teas and coffees, so that needs to go on the list too.

Best thing I find is to look through your list and think "what will I use that for?/what meal will that form part of?"

Buy more tins of bacon grill. You won't want to eat it, but it will come into its own as projectile weapons to lob from an upstairs window when the hordes of marauders come a-looting After my keto post on here last week, I tested the tin of the stuff I had in the cupboard. Grim doesn't cover it. Even DH, who'll normally eat anything processed meaty, struggled to eat a couple of slices and we ended up chucking the other half tin away

Seriously though... look through your cupboards, old till receipts, meal plans etc to see what you've been buying over the past few months. Now imagine you have a planned operation and won't be able to leave the house (or take deliveries) for 3/whatever weeks. What do you stock up with. What kind of food would you take on an extended camping trip where you just have a basic camp stove ring & no cool box?

Stock up on basic toiletries and household goods. So bars of soap in addition to shower gel. Basic diluting surface cleaner in addition to fancy aerosol sprays/whatever. Bicarb and value white vinegar. Think ahead to what other purchases you'll be needing in the months ahead and buy early. Add some diluting disinfectant and hand sanitiser to your list.

Wtf are you prepping for?!

Could you fry off the bacon grill thing in very small chunks and use it in pasta or something?

Darnsquirrels supply chain issues caused by Brexit

Do we get points if we collect the full set of usernames popping in and slagging people off? Like next level Brexit bingo!
Seriously, @ScienceIsTruth , there's some good advice on here and I strongly recommend taking a step back and thinking about an average week day and weekend day. As @cloudtree has said, what do you actually eat/use.
Please make time for treats, snacks and general morale boosters.

Oh bloody hell, now I find out I should have kept the really old flour as flour bombs to repel the hoards...

DoodleLab, I love bacon grill, but I either grill it or fry it so it's crispy at the edges. Couldn't eat it as it is.

@Darnsquirrels, nothing in particular, I just like to have a cushion. I also have a lot of health issues so can't always leave the house, and it comes in useful then.

Thanks cloudtree, will do that. Need to get better at meal planning again anyway. Kinda slacked off last year.

Didn't think of bicarb, vinegar, etc. Will check what I already have.
Got a few months worth of meat in the freezer too.

Wow, that’s brilliant! Well done Science!

Yea, we did fry it. maybe didn't slice it thinly enough. Anyway, I'm stocking up on tuna for us both, corned beef for DH and sardines/mackerel for myself. It would have to be serious Cormac McCarthy The Road stuff before I ever go near another tin of bacon grill lol

Is it meant to be that bad?! I'm coming to the UK on the 28th March for a wedding. Hopefully there will be food (and wine).

Not that fussed if I get stuck there though, it'll be a forced extended trip home that isn't my fault haha.

Your prepping sounds like normal life where I live.

I'll give you my list later when I've got ds off to school. We do lots of canning and preserving too.

We have a huge spare freezer which we freeze fruit, milk, bread and meat in as well. We live remotely and can get completely cut off for a couple of weeks at a time. With no power to boot! I should hire myself out as a Brexit planner!

I love chopped up bacon fried with greens. Hmmm, you intrigue me with your talk of bacon fry.

If you lay berries out on oven trays and freeze them individually then you can throw them in a ziplock when they're frozen and it's nice to have something resembling fresh fruit!

I also stew a load of apples and pears and freeze it in ice cube trays then throw in a bag to use over the winter in porridge or yogurts etc.

@bellinisurge was that aimed at me? I didn't slag anyone off, just genuinely wondered what op was prepping for.

My apologies @Darnsquirrels , there has been a glut of posters hopping on to these threads full of sarky comments.
I'm guessing you are in either the US or Canada . I know that Trump is doing everyone's head in but there is some seriously bad shit going down over here.

@bellinisurge I kind of hear bits of it from family but reached a point where between Trump and Brexit I stopped watching the news! Between the shit show shutdown here and Brexitgeddon there I think I'll just move to Sweden!

@Darnsquirrels , I know there's been a lot of US prepper talk about the shutdown. As well as non- prepper concern. Just universal concern, really.
Your post did come across a bit .... goady . Kind of like me going on a US thread and saying, "so, nothing much going on with you lot at the moment, is there?" Hence my snappy response. But if you genuinely didn't realise how much worry there is here from people who aren't normally interested in preps then, I guess you wouldn't realise.
I have US family and US politics used almost to be a bit of light relief.
As you say, maybe we should all move to Sweden. At least they take prepping seriously there.