Great list!

Pet food was a big one for us. We worked up to a year stock and now as we use up a bag we buy another and replenish (first in, first out) for all pets.

Some other things in short supply in Covid: dish and hand soaps, sanitizer, masks, laundry detergent, paper products, cleaning products, stress snacks, HVAC air filters.

We switched to a plant based diet (rough transition) but included our usual staples in bulk: beans, rice, oats, wheat, honey, healthy oils, seeds, nuts (shorter shelf life), whole grains like khorasan/buckwheat/farro. We made a list of all the meals we can and do eat and built our pantry from there focusing on canned and dry goods.

We have a large garden and also support a local farm with a CSA so we can have access to local food systems. From this we can and dehydrate foods to put up year round. It’s a real treat to eat a home canned sweet tea peach in the dead of winter.

We built up our deep pantry from shopping weekly sales, a local discount store, and our garden and local farms. We try to make these activities family hobbies and learning opportunities and it’s been a valuable and rewarding way to prep sensibly. We have had tons of failures but kept trying again and again to find a low stress way to prep in our budget over time so we avoid any sense of panic.