Am I cooking shit or being stingy??

I dont think its you. Really they are adults they should have planned for food. Its just a normal thing to do. They could have brought cereal and food bits they must have already had . Obviously not frozen food . The food you are making sounds nice.

If my sibling had invited me on holiday with them I would be offering to cook or buy a takeaway or snacks as a thank you. Not insulting the food they made me??? Crazy.

They’re being CFs. Also they’re adults. If they know they have specific preferences for breakfast or other meals, they should buy it themselves. Keep doing you.

The portion size and meal choices are irrelevant, despite 20 pages of commentary on them. The other family is breathtakingly rude and entitled. I would have asked them to ship out on the spot.

The absolute nerve of being given a free holiday and nutritious food without paying a red cent and the cheeking OP about her food?

I would be telling them to get to fuck.

Their jar sauce Bolognese tastes good to them.

Absolutely!

I'll be fucked if I'm on holiday finely chopping celery for cheeky fucker sister & co.

Here's my recipe if you need one @NoHotGirlsInHell:
Massive pack of mince (I do go 5% fat, I'm not an animal), dolmio garlic and herb twin pack, spaghetti, multipack of garlic baguettes.
Very important - token cucumber and cherry tomatoes on the side for the kids, which you will eat while clearing away.
Vienetta for pudding because it's a holiday.

Everyone fed, nobody dead, and not one second wasted reassuring myself I'm better than anyone else.

Not gatekeeping anything but food tasting good.

And so what if they do? Does it matter? It's their choice and if they are enjoying their food who is entitled to tell them they're wrong?

There's no law about how to make Bolognese. It's not even Italian in origin!

There's no one recipe.

If people enjoy mince and jarred sauce then that's all that matters.

Gatekeeping and food snobbery is really gauche

Beef, not ref!

Yuk.

My Italian friend makes her ragu sauce with a base of finely chopped onion, celery and carrot, plus some anchovies for richness of flavour. Then she adds the minced. Ref, then the tinned tomatoes plus some fresh diced tomatoes.

That’s Italian home cooking, but I suppose some people have never eaten proper food and don’t know what it should taste like.

In which case when OPs family have booked and funded their own holiday they can eat out where they like....?! It is without doubt the height of sheer rudeness to behave as they have. Offered a holiday, great; complaining when perfectly well fed- also for FREE- no, sod that! It's absolutely just rude. All this nonsense on here about OP "hosting" and her "guests" as if she's running a holiday venue herself- utter rubbish! Its a holiday she invited them to join, everyone I know, family and friends, would be at the bare minimum be contributing to the catering and they certainly wouldn't have the brass bloody neck to complain about food cooked for them. What a ridiculous scenario that anyone thinks this is about anything else other than rude and entitled relatives.

It sounds like half the people on here make their bolognese with 1kg of mince and two jars of dolmio.

I can't speak for everyone, but I have autism and sensory issues around food, so when people mix/blend vegetables into sauces they can become totally inedible to me.

I dont know why some posters dont like veg in things, 'as an attempt to make things healthy' - do you just never eat vegetables for the taste and texture? Sounds like you have the tastebuds of a 2yr old if thats the case.

Your food sounds absolutely fine. If you are going on holiday with someone and your child prefers a certain breakfast then surely you'd bring preferred food items with you? Did they expect you to be a mind reader. I hope they find time to cook for you as a way of saying thankyou!

Why did you take those ungrateful buggers with you on holiday?

Lesson learned

never again

With respect, you're obviously not the good cook you think you are. You simply cook down the sauce to reduce the water content, creates a depth of flavour. Pretty basic cooking skills.

I feel sorry for you. Get some friends or a hobby.

no because yes is yes and no is no and have what you want is have what you want

Would Sheldon know what word salad meant. As an autistic literal meaning

When I make Bolognese, I use 500g of best beef mince cooked with a basic sofrito - garlic, onions, celery and carrots - finely sliced mushrooms, lentils, passata, two or three tins of chopped tomatoes and one tin of whole cherry tomatoes. I also add any odd bacon lardons or chorizo hanging around in the fridge. This makes at least 12 portions, each of which is served with 80g of spaghetti and a topping of parmesan.. it's delicious!

OP, I think your sister and her family should enter the 'cheeky fucker of the year award' They'd very likely win it!

but thats only an issue when they dont clearly say yes order what you want, if people want to play word salad thats upto them, but then why then moan about the results of that

Unlike when you order 2 meals for lunch. Then basic manners evaporate.

Do you know what they normally eat? It sounds as if they may subsist on junk food. Stick to your guns, if they moan again down tools.

If they’re not happy with “prison food or bird food” maybe suggest that they have a little adventure to the supermarket to buy something their entitled teenagers might consider acceptable. And suggest they can get something to make for dinner for everyone.