Am I cooking shit or being stingy??

I am a good host. I offer a range of food for my guests. And I wouldnt dream of inviting someone to a holiday home, without having a plan to feed them all!

You are being nasty but its fine.

Your portions are too small and your breakfast offerings did not sound appealing to me or to your guests.

She’s got to be trolling, surely!

What are you baking? I’m starting to get peckish now! 🤣

Are you in the uk? Can they go home if you decide they’re ungrateful arses who are spoiling your holiday?

What?!

ONE loaf of garlic bread is NOT enough for 6 people!

It is a proper range of food! How entitled would you have to be to claim that a choice of cereal was inadequate for your free breakfast!

You must be a poor cook, or have very unrefined palate if you don’t like what OP has offered. It’s perfectly mainstream, balanced food. If they’re lucky there will be cake after today’s baking.

You don't like it, go get your own. In fact, since all you do is complain about the free food you're getting, go the fuck home.

They're being deliberately over the top rude so you'll get them what they want for dinner. They're taking advantage of you and it's time they got some manners or go home. Tell your husband if he doesn't like your food, he cooks for himself.

Stop feeling sorry and doing such huge favours for these freeloaders. They get an inch, they take a mile and they're nasty and rude on a free holiday. They're assholes.

Look your ideas on portions are just off - sorry. So maybe it was a garlic baguette- a couple of slices each. One would be enough. How much garlic bread would you eat? On top of a bolognese and pasta dish?

It doesn't sound like they're getting a bountiful feast, but why the hell should you be providing that for them?! They're cheeky bastards, direct them to the nearest cafe and tell them to crack on.

There'd be some granola there for you too, and some tap water. 💐

Honestly that portion size is fine. And you had the garlic bread!

Like you say - you are not hosting, you are trying to have a holiday too. That does not involve cooking 7 people 3 meals a day!

The paella sounds amazing too. Leave them to it!

They wouldn't get another bite from me. And I'd tell them to fuck off home too.

My point is that your idea of a 'proper range' isn't universal. I've read your list of everything you think a proper host offers for breakfast, and there are things I'd eat but literally nothing but the coffee that I'd especially want to have. Nothing about your list would fill me with joy or make me think it was a great treat. Obviously I'd pretend it was a lovely breakfast, but that doesn't mean you actually have cracked it so that absolutely everyone would love what you serve.

it's a family holiday, you're not hosting them at a B&B or running a hotel! Your food options sound fine (maybe a bit light on mince and pasta portions for some) but do you not know how they normally eat? I know some kids who'd be more than happy with porridge or yogurt for breakfast but others who won't eat anything from rice krispies or cocoa pops and white toast, so I would just take porridge!

I think the portion size is too small, I know it says 75g on the pack but I would do myself around 100g at least and I’m underweight. My adult son works want 150g, it’s akin to the tiny recommended amounts of cereal 30g which is like a baby bowl half full! Also as others have said I would have about 1kg mince for that many people. Besides that is just their fussiness so they should cook their own.

No sorry, only offering granola to your guests on their holidays isnt appropriate.

You offer a proper range of food

That said, as ive said - you wouldnt be rude to the host.

You know that your tastes aren't universal, right? I don't like a fry up for breakfast (I think eggs are an ok lunch), but absolutely love granola and greek yoghurt (which, by the way, isn't some sort of self-denying health food breakfast - granola is sugary and proper greek yoghurt is considered high in saturated fat) and would be very happy that it was a breakfast option. I agree that it's nice to offer a range of options for this reason, but it isn't true that everyone would be disappointed with OP's choices and delighted with a fry-up and 'fatty' bolognaise. I would, however, enthusiastically eat your choices if you gave them to me, because I am polite!

I the padding it out with veg makes it sound watery and untasty

That said, I dont wish to be mean to the op and if she likes it, i'm sure her husband and child do.

I do think though op, that yabu in that you are the host and are expected to provide meals (not all meals) that everyone will like.

And providing 'one' garlic bread is also a bit off - one garlic bread between 6?!

A proper bolognese is cooked for some time so it reduces the water content

More importantly the op is hosting. She's giving a free holiday and food to these ungrateful knobs

Your food sounds lovely and your porrion sizes are absolutely fine.

I can't imagine being invited on a free holiday and being so ungrateful and rude.

I would tell them food is being served, if they don't like they can provide their own.

The fact you mentioned frozen food makes me think they are a chips and chicken nuggets family.

When they went to the store too, why did they buy a load of junk instead of buying nuggets and chips.. it sounds more to their taste.

Then stand up for yourself. Tell them that it's you holiday as well and they don't have to be here if it's intolerable. Tell them to go and buy the foods they like, accept what you're cooking or go home. It's that simple.

Your food and portion size sound fine!

They are being rude, If I didn't like the breakfast options on offer I would just go to the store and buy a box of cereal or a loaf of bread!

I understand you offered them to join you but did you offer to cover every meal too?

Paella sounds lovely too!

Then perhaps the sister and her family, who are paying fuck all for the accommodation, food etc should take the op up on the offer to cook for themselves... what don't people understand about the fact they have been complaining and rude to her face about the food she is serving. I have sat at a friend's house and ate beetroot which I think tastes of mud however well you cook...I ate it to be polite. It's called having manners

The sister if they weren't happy should have had a quiet word and sorted things out. And bought her own fucking food...the cowbag