If you self cater on holidays - what sort of meals do you make?

If abroad, we like cruising the markets and deciding there and then. Generally lots of pancakes, cereals, eggs for breakfast. Knock up some sandwiches for lunch. BBQ fish, steak, salad etc. etc. for dinner. I would buy a small olive oil and use most of it over a week. Stuff any unused spices in my bag. Or bin them.

I do a rough meal plan in advance and take spices, oil and salt with me.

I mostly go for traybakes, although I do find self catering places often lack big trays!

In the past I've ordered a hello fresh box and taken that with us on holiday. All spices, oils etc pre measured for you.

Currently on hols in Corfu.
Breakfast and lunch are mostly bread/toast with cheese, ham or jam, yoghurt, fresh fruit.
Evenings are steak, fish, pork, sausages with some kind of large salad.

We also BBQ. My kids are very picky eaters so reading all of these meals makes me weep as they wouldn’t eat them!

We usually try and have one big meal out each day (more than you'd normally eat) so the 'other' meal is just like a top up!

Lots of charcuterie type stuff. Cold meats, breads, cheeses, salads, hummus / tzatziki type dips, tomatoes, olives, crisps, crackers, etc. If there's an oven available could add things like sausage rolls, chicken, prawns, samosas, bhajis, etc.

Leftovers can be wrapped up and will last a few days.

We pretty much always make sure a place has a barbecue and then buy meat and fish to grill (which can also be done in an indoor oven) then make up big bowls of salads and vegetables and couscous which can last over two or three days. Sometimes roast a chicken. Oven tray bakes are also good and quick - just whatever vegetables and meat that’s in the market, and things like olive oil and herbs are usually pretty cheap.

If we're in the UK I just bake/cook extra a few times in the weeks before, then put portions in the freezer. Put them in the icebox when we leave and they go into the fridge at the cottage. Add some salad, bit of veg or whatever.

The other days can be jacket potatoes, pasta with a simple sauce, pizzas if there is a supermarket nearby.

When we self cater, we’re driving there, so I bring any cooking stuff with me. I know what I’m making for the week and usually it doesn’t require much more than olive oil, salt/pepper, a stock cube and soy sauce. I just chuck it in a carrier bag for the car.

Usually though, it’s lots of fresh stuff - roast chicken or fish, anything on the BBQ, lots of salads, cold meats/cheeses, sausages on rolls. Like I wouldn’t make a curry or a stew, it’s very basic ingredients that together make a nice meal.

Fresh pasta and sauce
Posh supermarket pizza
Quiche, new potatoes, salad

Ice cream and strawberries and cream

We just got back from 5 nights in a cottage. We had:

pizza on the first night (tired after travelling)
fajitas
Macaroni cheese
Curry
Chilli con carne

Picnics for lunch.

That was for 2 adults and 6 children.

Depends where we are and if there is an oven...when we stayed in a holiday cottage in Wales we just went to Tescos and made normal "easy weekday" type meals in the evening like pasta with garlic bread etc or oven pizza and salad. We mostly ate lunch out.

When we go to Italy we hardly ever cook unless staying with relatives, in caravans we just get cold things everyone likes e.g. ham, cheese, bread rolls, salad, fruit and the occasional takeaway pizza.

Ready meals! Posh ones. Steak. Pasta pesto maybe. I’d not be doing actual cooking like chilli or roasting a chicken. I hate cooking though.