I'm in Ireland there have been protests for nearly a week about the cost of fuel and how much of that cost is tax. Not the point of my post.
Where we are garages had sold out of fuel. Roads have been blocked. The ones in the bigger cities/ sites have been cleared today, Sunday.
I get the food shopping delivered every Monday. I do a weekly meal plan and basically run out of everything on a Sunday evening.
I was getting worried on Saturday about when this would end, so went into our one tiny over priced supermarket. We live rurally - on a farm- the bigger supermarkets are 20kms+ away . I did a very small shop and spent about €60 (milk, veg, fruit, flour, meat, rice, pasta few other small bits)
My relative said I shouldn't have done that. We were told not to panic buy. Yes I did panic. But I didn't go in and buy a tonne of things or stock pile. We have 2 young dc I was a little worried about it! If the roads are blocked we won't get our delivery.
Relative said it was outside my usual pattern so it was panic buying and I shouldn't have done it.
Was I wrong to do the shopping on Saturday?