The emergency kit list

Food

For one adult for 3 days. The calculator scales it for your household. Food that doesn't need cooking or a fridge, as Be Ready asks. Buy what you already eat. Eat it and replace it every six months.

• 3 tins Tinned fish or meat (mackerel, sardines, salmon, tuna, chicken)

  Protein, and oily fish gives omega-3. In olive oil or water, with ring-pull lids. Swap: extra beans or chickpeas.

• 2 tins Ready-to-eat beans, chickpeas or baked beans

  Protein and fibre, fine cold. No added salt where you can.

• 3 tins Tinned veg (sweetcorn, peas, carrots, beetroot)

  Vitamins and fibre straight from the tin.

• 2 tins Tinned fruit in juice

  In juice, not syrup.

• 1 bag Dried fruit (apricots, raisins, prunes)
• 1 pack Oatcakes or wholegrain crackers

  Lasts months longer than bread.

• 1 jar Peanut or other nut butter

  Swap: seed butter for nut allergies.

• 1 bag Unsalted nuts or seeds

  Swap: seeds, or more oatcakes, for nut allergies.

• 1 litre UHT milk

  Swap: long-life plant milk.

• 1 box Cereal or instant oats (soak oats in cold milk)
• 3 bars Cereal bars
• 1 bar Chocolate

  Morale counts. Sweden's list has it too.

• A tin opener

  For any tins that don't have ring-pull lids.

  What to get: A tin opener
• Tea, coffee or whatever you usually drink, for when there's hot water again
• Babies, allergies, coeliac or other special diets: keep 3 days of what that person already eats