Me,
still ongoing though getting much better. Still have lots of rice left, but had run out of most everything else, so need to restock when money starts coming in again.
Best of luck

We've been relying on our supplies for the last 2 1/2 months with the exception of what fresh stuff we pick up at our small local grocery. I got sick, had operation, stayed in local hospital for that one, hubby working and visiting, no time for anything else. Ended up with some complications and back into hospital in Calgary for a week with other tests and procedures, and still have more to do yet. Hubby travelling back and forth to Calgary the whole time every day. Took week off work to do so.

We've had a bag ready to go for the hospital stay since this all started. Thank goodness we've had supplies in the house to rely on for making meals and having froze up and canned some soups and stews to make it easier to make meals.

The 3 mains in my active home prep are:0
1) Rice, 4x 5 lb. bags, as soon as I tap into one I buy a new one.
2) Dried beans, same same.
3) Canned salmon or tuna, buy on sale when ever I can.

One of the reasons I started storing food came about long before I knew about prepping. We have run our own business for 30 years and we do 5 big projects every year - that means we don't have a regular pay check. We had great difficulty in the early years of our marriage making the money last until the next contract was being paid. I learned that having some extra food on a shelf in the basement and filling the freezer made those times much easier to bear.

We use our preps all the time because I live by the "eat what you store" mantra. Each January I do a challenge called Eat To the Bottom of the Freezer to find and use up all the things that got missed. We only buy fresh fruits and veggies during that month. My pantry is part of my every day life but it has saved us many times!

I hope all of those that have had major health issues are now feeling better

I have agoraphobia which means I have real issues leaving the house. I am also on disability so my income has been cut in half. Add to that the fact that I am cheap.

I am just starting over with my preps as until this past summer I had been living off my preps for the last six years.

I'm very much like anita in that we use our preps all the time, but once a year for the past while I do a month where we live only on our preps, nothing else adding in from the outside, i tend to do the month of march as that is the hardest month I find in terms of being able to find anything extra on the farm,land, which means other then the farm critters extra's, we are well and truly living out of the pantry, this allows me each time i have done this to find the weak spots that need work on.

I will admit that because of the garden failure last year with the heat and drought, that my pantry is not! up to its normal standards at all.. I have broke down a bit and even bought a few things on sale, example, two dozen cans of corn was added in on a sale two weeks ago, normally I have my own canned corn but I had a no corn year last year, which means that I was eating all this past year and half out of what I had done in 2011 and I am coming to a end on it..

This has happened on a number of things, which means that this year, I either need to grow and process enough to refill back my two year supplies on things or I need to consider adding in sale items for a bit of a backup.

How do others do this, if you typically do homecanned products only, what happens for you when you have a major crop failure and you eat your preps on a regular bases? Do you allow your preps to go down(which is what I have done, leaving me in some cases with as little as a six month supply on some things, where I normally have two) or you start buying from the store.

I personally decided that in order to control my own food supply, that I would take the risk of going down to a six month supply on certain things, its a risk..