what to cook? One week, self catering, family group

[workatemylife]

I'm trying to plan as few days of food for a self catering (UK) holiday. We're a family group (8 or 9 people), three children (who will just east Easter eggs, I imagine), one veggie, and another who doesn't eat fish.

Other people in the group are doing some of the cooking, so we have a pasta meal, pizza, and a pie of some sort already spoken for. But I'm out of inspiration for the other nights. Curry, maybe? Or fajitas?

I'm tempted to bake some cake / biscuits / dessert stuff, although I'm not sure what. Maybe five variations on crumble and custard!

Do you have any holiday food favourites that are not too time consuming and fussy?

[AtleastitsnotMonday]

A big chilli, one meat, one bean with tacos, cheese, guacamole, salsa, sour cream, lettuce.

[JimWithTwoNoses]

Fajitas sound easy and yummy and can be adapted for the veggie

Jacket potatoes?
Curry
Chilli and rice
Sausages and mash (can be veggie)
BBQ?
Fish and chips?

[AtleastitsnotMonday]

I also recently did toad in the hole for a crowd and it was a big hit and surprisingly faff free, served with broccoli, garlic roasted baby potatoes and gravy. (Would probably just buy the gravy in m&s if I was on holiday to reduce the time in the Kitchen!) easy to make a veggie version with LM sausages and red onion.

[Blondie1984]

I agree with one of the PPs - do a BBQ!!
Sausages/burgers/steak/chicken - veggie versions of the first two - or halloumi kebabs
Jacket potatoes, salad, good bread and then you could do BBQ bananas / pineapple for dessert with ice cream - which i'm sure the kids would love

[workatemylife]

Yum! Brilliant ideas. Chilli, curry would be good for the crowd because people can just take what they like. Barbecue I hadn't thought of - slightly weather dependent, but we could just cook the food in the oven / grill if we need to. Again, easy to cater for all tastes and appetites.

I've never made toad in the hole, but that's no reason not to learn. I can experiment on the family and head out for fish and chips if it all goes wrong...

[AtleastitsnotMonday]

Do you make Yorkshire puddings? It's really easy you just need to get the fat super hot before pouring in the batter.

[Booboo27]

Fajitas is always good as you can make veggies ones with peppers, onions and courgettes and then have some chicken for the meat eaters to add to theirs.
Making a big pot of mashed potato and a jug of onion gravy would be good too as you can then grill some veggie sausages and some pork ones.
As for desserts a big Apple crumble with vanilla ice cream would no doubt go down well, as would a big batch of homemade chocolate brownies

[BlueChampagne]

Veggie risotto for all.
Slow cooked casserole and vegetarian option.
Soup and baked spuds.

If you're feeling keen, home-made flapjack for snacks.