This is my first deliberate prepping.
I decided I'd focus on food provision first.
I already have a years supply of household products, first aid stuff & toiletries etc.. plus it turns out about a 5 year supply of toothbrushes (they must have been on a really good special offer)
I've been sorting out & stocktaking the food I've got, officially thinking of it as preps rather than just buying extra just in case on special offer etc...
Have cleared out a specific area to store food to be eaten later so it's just food for this month in kitchen cupboards.
I worked out a menu on a 14 day cycle containing meals which I could buy & store everything for with no power cost that need nothing more than water at most added to them.
They are all meals with a low power requirement to produce so nothing baked or requiring long cooking times.
It's all things we do eat, but under normal circumstances we'd only eat these things perhaps once a month or every other month.
I don't currently have a freezer so meals made with fresh or frozen meat/dairy etc.. produce are not included.
Once I get a freezer again, I'll build up a store of stuff in that but as I don't have a way to provide power if there is a power cut I'm not counting that as long term stuff for now.
I'll be focusing on power after water.
I'm currently working on getting the last few bits to have a 3 month store of food, at 1 main meal including a dessert (mostly fruit for now) & multivitamins a day plus breakfast & drinks (coffee etc..)
It's a mix of shop bought and home preserved stuff.
The only big problem I have is that we drink a lot of milk and I don't know how to substitute for that. I use mine mostly in coffee, my 3yr old drinks it as is.
If I could bring myself to drink UHT it still doesn't have much of a shelf life & I do not have room for a cow.
I'm not counting fresh or frozen food in my stocks at all, but obviously they would mean my stores would last longer.
I'm aiming to build my 'tinned' store to cover 1 year at basic minimum food requirements (my definition being the above) then flesh it out from there.
Also have stocks of bread making stuff as I already bake my own, plus preserving products (salt, sugar etc...) to last a year at present.
Next have to figure out how to cover water provision if off the grid.
I overlook the estuary so water is seawater round here.
I've redesigned my little garden which is about 7m x 7m and am currently just starting to do the hardscaping so hopefully by the end of the summer I'll have a green house to increase productivity on the bits I grow now.
Not sure how to collect or process water on a longer term basis apart from rain water barrels.
I currently have a weeks supply of bottled water for just in case, but that's it.
I'm on a water meter and we've used about 2.5 cubic metres of water a month on average over the past couple of years since the meter went in, so I'd like to find a way to provide that much water if possible - although I think quite a bit of that is the washing machine.
All ideas greatly appreciated.
It's been really useful for me to do this as I've realised I don't need to go shopping, apart from milk, for the next couple of weeks at least to use up some shorter dated stuff.
After looking at the vast sea of cans etc.. however, I was motivated to go out and buy 2 spare can openers and put them with the stored stuff.
Knowing that if it all went wrong tomorrow we could eat for the next 3 months is making me feel pretty good too
I've been skimming the forums most days as I'm find it very motivating.
Can't stand gin though so will leave the sloes. There are also bullace trees not too far which makes the most delicious jam. Need to get on with my strawberry and raspberry jams but living in a flat its been too hot to make it 
I've got a kilo of rice in the freezer just waiting to be processed and put into a jar. Then I will do a kilo of pasta. Loving my new stash place and got tons of room left to fill. Will need more jars I know but I'm further on in my preps than I imagined I would be. Also have a couple of tins to stash the newly "found" chocolate from temptation. Feeling much happier about the impending redundancy, last pay day coming up next week so will spend wisely on preps. 