Was I unreasonable to "panic buy" on Saturday?

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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?

If you didn't purchase any toilet roll, and no extra bread, that was not "panic buying" in the real sense 😉

You were anxious (understandably) and picked up a limited selection of your regular items.

Tell your relative to go away and cop on. If the protests hadn’t ended today I bet lots of deliveries would have been cancelled this week so you’d have been left high and dry. DPD cancelled all deliveries on Saturday . DH got up at 7 am on Saturday to go get petrol and luckily our local filling station had gotten a delivery so he got both our cars filled. By 10 am they had run out. So things were strange and unpredictable.

I’ve built up approx 3 months of dried, canned and frozen food, and I just keep that topped up. I really recommend this. It helps ride out storms, and shortages but also means I’m not running to the shop, out of turn, because I’ve run out of jam or tea. That’s saved me a small fortune because I always end up buying stuff I didn’t know I needed if I step inside a supermarket.

I built mine up slowly, and just focused on the things we use regularly. I keep my petrol tank topped up at the moment, only buying €10-20 at a time but just not letting it run low, so that hopefully I’ll get through a shortage.

It isn’t ideal when people change their habits suddenly because the shops aren’t set up to deal with that. But I wouldn’t risk bare cupboards with a young family either. It is what it is.

I'd ignore your relative from now on.

You’d rather contact all those people and raise a welfare concern about your own children than go to supavalue? wait until there is an actual problem rather than panic buying expensive food.

^fixed your typo.

I don’t live in Ireland but last week I added a few extra long life bits to my shop just in case we have any issues here. Not much, just a few bits, but definitely some would say that if everyone does that then you have a panic buying situation as the supply chains wouldn’t be prepared for it. I don’t care though, I never again want the fear of stepping into a supermarket while heavily pregnant and seeing just empty shelves all around like I did in Covid. Ever since then I’ve always been a little better prepared, I don’t think that’s a bad thing,

That is an hilariously shit response 🤣 you obviously tried to go for a number of standard “winning PA responses on an internet forum” yet still managed to make none of them hit 😭😭

Well obviously someone is mad in this chat. The o.p who has clearly set out why she wasn't panic buying or...the "friend" who has said this without reason...come on people

I imagine that won't be a problem

Sorry I took so long to reply, I was just crying into the abyss because your response was soooo cutting 🤣