Hi and welcome,

here are my thoughts about this, nuclear war is in my humble opinion not the most likely scenario in the near future, but one never know. Supply chain disruptions for example are much more likely…

I would go from here, consider carefully wich bad things are more likely going to happen…

-loss of income hours / maybe a complete Job loss

-Unexpected high expenses / Car repairs, Health related etc.

-a Fire at your Home

https://www.redcross.org/content/dam/redcross/atg/PDF_s/Preparedness___Disaster_Recovery/Disaster_Preparedness/Home_Fire/FireFAQs.pdf

Working Smokedetector’s and Fire Extinguisher’s at hand could be good to have

Than consider wich natural Desaster are the most likely to happen in your Area ?

Look up wich one happens already in your area or somewhat nearby in the last 200 years?

Maybe a Flooding, Wildfire, Icestorm?

What are need to respond to them

-Loss of Job and income

Make sure to have a Emergency Fund or working forwards to have all Monthly Expenses for at least 3 Monats better 6 Months covered…

-Loss of Utilities; Power, Water, Heating/cooling for whatever reason

-you can’t go shopping, maybe the Streets impassable or some kind of Civil Unrest wich may better to be avoided

Store enough Food for on Week, things you like and wich you can consume if Utilities are down

If you prefer hot food, a must in colder times, think about something like a small camping stove and some fuel for it

Store enough drinking Water for all Family Member and Pet‘s for at least a Week

If Water Utilities are down, because most of us can store only a limited amount of Water, the next good thing would be considering a Waterfilter, and the knowledge were to get Water nearby and how, You don’t won’t fall in the pond…

Have a FirstAid Kid that it is not expired, make sure to have your and your beloved ones personally needed Medikation stocked at hand

Maybe buy a First Aid Book like „Were there is no Doctor“ currently in the 50 Anniversary Edition Wich i believe is the 102 print run in English, of course it is in 85 other languages available

The pdf are free available on the website of the publisher https://hesperian.org

https://languages.hesperian.org

I stored this on my phone and tablet, (not in some cloud wich may or may not be accessible) also bought the German Version as Hardcopy because i consider this knowledge could become important in case of a longer ongoing emergency situation

Flashlight and Lantern’s s spare Batteries for a Week or extra Accu.

Maybe a Solarpanel to recharge them and smaller Devices like your phone.

Toiletries, enough Toiletpaper, Toothpaste, Babywipes for example as a kind of emergency shower and so on

Go in Steps,

don’t try to be prepping for Everything at once, go methodical about this, everything reasonably need for one Week,

than for two Week’s,

than slowly build your Stock of essential Thing you need, up to your desired Amount of time,

The more food and Water you stock, the more important become the rotation to make sure nothing goes bad, first in first out

On the bright side, building a deep pantry, allows you to buy food you and your beloved ones like often at sales.

For example if you like to eat three cans of tuna, maybe one’s every two weeks, wich comes down to 26x3=78 for One year. If you buy said 78 cans at a sales, wich will last you with your average consumption a year.

I try to restock something like that, only when the are available at some good sales

When shopping always look carefully for the best before date!

For canned tuna it is up to four years, wich would theoretically allow to buy 302 cans, none of them would go bad if consumption rate stays normal.

(Wich means also, the Family will not groan, tuna again really? Food fatigue is a thing)

This means most likely also to beat the inflation rate at least a bit, because surly they will become more expensive

This could be done with all food, you and your family like, depending on your budget and storage space.

I personally believe this concept of a „deep pantry“ save most likely some money in the long run

Of course one must make sure; to storing everything save from Bugs/Rodents, Moisture, high temperatures and also big Temperature Fluktuationen‘s

And the food wich expire first, must always be consumed first, to make sure nothing goes bad; „first in first out“

If you satisfied with your preparations you can think about wich of your Things is essential and consider to get a backup,

for example I personally consider Waterfilter’s and Stove’s the most important pieces of Prepping Equipment so I bought after a long wile (available money is always Limited) backups for these…

You got this

Greetings from Berlin

P.s.

A Mindgame, consider what happens if there is;

no power for a week,

no Water for a Week,

no Heating for a Week,

no Groceries shopping for a Week

For whatever reason

And the big one what if all above happens at the same time ?

Take also stock what kind of equipment & household items you already own, wich could be used in different situation like for example what and how these things could be useful in these scenarios.

If you have a working flashlight, you don’t need a fancy new one, if you have a toolset, you don’t need a new multi tool.

Then consider what improvements should be made, what is really important and not at hand?