Plan three useful days of meals

Only mark an ingredient as already owned when your supply covers its full planned quantity. Marking “beans” covers all listed bean types. Partial stocks still need checking against the basket. Choosing vegetarian switches to the supported no-cook menu.

Snacks and extras

• 12 extra × 100 g fruit cups
• 400 g extra crackers
• 300 g tolerated nuts or seeds
• 200 g chocolate or biscuits

Already included in the shopping basket; do not buy them twice. Share by appetite and add familiar food for different needs. Whole nuts are not suitable for under-fives.

Water assumptions

UK planning basis: 12 litres / day; 36 litres over three days (drinking). The 3 litres per person per day is drinking water. Cooking, washing and other uses need additional water. The manuscript also uses around 10 litres per person per day as a broader comfort planning example including basic cooking and hygiene; it is not the Be Ready drinking-water figure.

Recipe water: About 2.15–2.55 litres for the source menu's recipes. Reserve at least 3 litres for recipe water, with more contingency. Keep the UK's drinking-water allocation separate. For the US CDC baseline, do not count the same recipe water twice.

Shopping list

Source quantities are for four people. For 4 people, amounts scale proportionally, rounding only to package increments provided in the structured source. Other values are estimates, not exact retail pack counts. Owned ingredients are removed when selected.

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• 32 medium ambient tortillas (about 1.28 kg)
• 240 g instant oats
• 320 g quick pasta
• 200 g water-only potato flakes
• 80 g granola or oat cereal
• 200 g tortilla chips
• 2 × 250 g cooked rice pouches
• 4 × 400 g chickpea cans (about 960 g drained)
• 2 × 400 g kidney or black bean cans (about 480 g drained)
• 1 × 400 g white bean can (about 240 g drained)
• 2 × 400 g baked bean cans
• 2 × 400 g chopped tomato tins
• 320 g drained tuna
• 600 g drained sweetcorn
• 460 g peanut butter total
• 160 g jam
• 400 ml coconut milk
• 600 ml UHT milk in 3 × 200 ml cartons
• 20 g cocoa
• 40 g sugar
• 300 g salsa in packs usable at one meal
• 60 g chutney
• 60 g BBQ sauce
• 15 g mustard
• 15 ml vinegar
• 15 ml lemon juice
• About 180 ml oil
• 4 tsp mild curry powder
• 2 tsp garlic granules
• 2 tsp smoked paprika
• 1 tsp mixed herbs
• 1 tsp dill
• Black pepper to taste
• 20 × 100 g fruit cups
• 400 g crackers
• 300 g tolerated nuts or seeds
• 200 g chocolate or biscuits

See the source menu and shopping assumptions