Best tinned food options for a seven-day emergency food hamper

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In light of the recent government guidelines in preparedness for any emergency. I am trying to put together a 7 day emergency food hamper. I do not normally eat tin food. What are your favourite tin food options? Is there really any difference between supermarket own brands. Have you started preparing, if so, what are you storing away?

Haggis
Fray Bentos pies
Bacon grill
Those manky tinned burgers in onion gravy
Spam
Spam
Spam
Not tinned but flour and yeast.
When the supermarkets were getting stripped for storm arwen, all the bread went but the flour and yeast were in abundance.

You can get cheese sauce granules - normally with the gravy

You sound very organised indeed 👍 😃
Storage would be a real issue for us, we live in a tiny property, not much storage available, not sure how we would get around this problem. Recently De-cluttered, so we are now down to the basics of everything. I feel quite liberated though😆
I really like the sound of the mashed potato, going to take a look at that now. Thank you for your advice, very helpful 👍 😊

Wasn't there a song called 'spam?' 😃 😀
The Fray Bentos pie, I will reluctantly, give it a try. I think the Haggis and burgers might be pushing it 😆 🤣 😂

I like cold beans. Chickpeas, tinned carrots and tinned peas. Sweetcorn.

I mean its not amazing but I could eat it.

I am not sure if I am making this up. I seem to recall cheese and white sauce granules. As I say, I could be making this up 😆 😂

I definitely need to look at tinned vegetables, just to bulk things out 👍

Colouring books is such a good idea. We need to keep ourselves entertained. I might try find some jigsaws too. I wish I could knit 😆

The works have lots of cheap puzzle books. I got some for a cats holiday.

Fruit cake is such a clever idea 👌

I actually love vegetables, I am definitely going to get some tinned potatoes

Not food but I had a thought today. We have an ooni pizza oven and a barbecue. Both run off gas - and we have two canisters here but they’re out of gas

it hadn’t occurred to me to get them refilled any time soon but am going to get them topped up again this weekend - so for any of you out there with similar, it’ll cook your stored food in case of loss of power

Tinned soup from M&S as good as or better than Heinz

This is very good advice 👍

So I had a bit of a dilemma with this as we don't normally eat much tinned food (more likely to go for a freezer stash!) so I didn't want to prep a cupboard full of food that would never get eaten.

So I ended up doing a meal plan for 3 days and doubled it so that we had 6 days worth (I know there would always be enough in the fridge/freezer for the first few days before it turned) so I think we would be ok for about 10 days. We do go camping so have a camping stove so weather permitting would be fine to hear stuff up but I know a few of the options can be eaten cold.

I have only used things that I know we would incorporate into meals in normal times so my next step is to list the use by dates to make sure they don't go to waste...have popped below my plan in case it is of interest! It helped me to feel sane by having an end 'tin' in sight.

Breakfasts:
6 long life milks: oat, almond, coconut
Cereal
Granola
Oats

Lunches:
Baked beans / oat cakes / rye bread (the biona one has a crazy long use by date)
Tins of tomato soup / oat cakes / rye bread
Veg / tofu / cashews / rice packet

Dinners:
Gnocchi, pesto and nuts
Tuna, veg, pasta, tinned toms
Baked beans and sausages and grains (went for the merchant gourmet ones as can be eaten hot or cold)

Fruit: tinned peaches, tinned pineapple, jar of mango

Veg: tinned peas, tinned sweet corn, jar peppers, beetroot

Morale snacks: cereal bars, chocolate, sweets, custard, jelly pots

I ended up looking what was on offer on ocado and they kept doing good discounts on their longer life / tinned foods so have just gone for what was well rated! I found it helpful to do online so didn't end up in a faff in store.

If you are stocking up for a Christmas Apocalypse, you can buy tinned brussel sprouts (in France).

Here’s what I’ve bought for our disaster stash…

Food
M&S Chicken Tikka Masala Tinned Curry
M&S Stewing Steak Tinned
M&S Mince Tinned
Tuna Tinned
Salmon Tinned
M&S Pasta Sauce
Tinned New Potatoes
Tinned Carrots
Tinned Sweetcorn
Tinned Black Beans
Lentils
Quick Cook Pasta
Microwavable Rice
Ramen Noodles
Baked Beans
Strong Flour
Yeast
Bags of Bread Mix
Salt
Bicarbonate of Soda
Ready Made Custard
Porridge Oats
Long Life Milk
Powdered Milk
Jam
Peanut Butter
Nutella
Honey
Sugar Cubes
Biscuits
Chocolate
Tinned Peaches
Condensed Milk

Equipment
Camping Stove
Extra Gas Canisters
Wood
Matches
Lighters
Candles
Tea Lights
Lanterns
Power Bank
Wind Up Radio
Batteries
Bucket
Disinfectant
Jeyes Fluid
Heavy Duty Bin Bags
Water Sterilising Tablets
Sterilising Tablets
Hand Sanitiser
Baby Wipes
Paracetamol
Ibuprofen
Dental Kit
First Aid Book
Face Masks
Gaffa Tape
Plastic Sheeting

Tinned/packet custard is a good idea. Never usually buy this but it would go down well with all the tinned fruit in the apocalypse! You need comfort food of some sort.

We quite like the aunt Bessie custard pack that you add water too. Like you say good with the tinned fruit.

Thank you. I have just been looking up custard on the supermarket websites trying to decide what to buy for the emergency stash.

I will look up Aunt Bessie's. The name 'Aunt Bessie' makes it sound even more of a comfort food when disaster strikes! 😂

You have really thought about this and it sounds really good. We normally have some food in the freezer, which as you say, will last a few days. My understanding is that freezer food will last about 48 hours if the freezer is full or 24 hours if the freezer is half full. Fridge- food dairy and meat products start to degrade within 4 hours, at 12 hours we should not use.
I really like your morale snacks and will stock up on the bars.
Sound advice regarding looking at discounted tinned food through Ocado 👍

Fantastic and very helpful list. Thank you very much for sharing 👍

I love Aunt Bessie's custard. I also like Ambrosia creamed rice, will be adding these to my list 👍

😆 🤣 😂

If you have freezer space, fill with used milk/drink bottles of water. It helps with the running costs, helps keep the freezer cold in a power cut and you'll have drinking water.