Picking RF ceramic capacitors and SMT inductors (experimenters sample kits?)

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I want to pick up two sample kits of L's and C's for critical uses on projects where "whatever is in the parts drawer" (and in many cases of unknown provenance) wont do. Ive asked this question before and been steered to the AVX capacitors and coilcraft little colored dot purplish inductors and indeed, Ive had great luck with those particular inductors. So now I want to buy some of both of them, with my main requirement on the inductors being "high SRF" (its difficult to do this myself) and low loss/high q. (values in the nh range) and I actually don't know how to specify this quality in the ceramic caps, but I know it when I see it, there are dramatic differences between ceramic capacitors. Some will probably be used for DC blocks and others for filters. (values in the pf range) This is for unknown future experimental use perhaps up to several thousand MHz. I like parts that are big enough to be hand solderable, which means the larger smt sizes.. I just want to make a decent choice and have them around and available. Experimenters or engineers kits. Not too expensive. I dont need a huge quantity.

I'm open to suggestions of cheaper parts too. (LCSC?) if the quality is good in those particular areas. For a low price, I am very willing to take a risk on them. This is just for fooling around, not any commercial product.

Thanks!

EDIT: I just realized its possible with (most?) components to use the manufacturers provided information to use EDA tools like Spice to minimize the problems caused by stray inductance and capacitance and interact with the parts choosing process empowered by this data and possibly even be able to simulate the effect of different pasrts once I master the EDA tools.

If anybody has any suggestions for a rank beginner they would be welcome.