Am I cooking shit or being stingy??

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

Why on earth would the addition of vegetables make it was less tasty? It’s down to cooking technique and seasoning. If anything you get more flavour.

I have just made holiday breakfast for two families with hungry teenagers. Large bacon and egg rolls. Teenagers also eat shed loads of toast and cereal when helping themselves.
So it does sound like a miss on the breakfast front I’m sorry to say.
But - and it’s a big but - nobody would have said a word if I had provided the ‘wrong’ food. They would have just picked up what they preferred later on.
So the problem is not differing tastes. The problem is astonishingly bad manners.

This sounds watery imo, and significantly lacking in taste

Yes a soffrito is included in traditional bolognese but it is also rich and tasty, and mostly meat

A proper, traditional bolognese includes vegetables. It's not veg that makes it watery - it's bad technique.

Well actually it is usually the fat in food that makes it tasty

Ah yes I forgot you have an aversion to vegetables. Mushrooms and vegetables do not go watery in bolognese and it’s a perfectly reasonable way to pad it out. Plus the bacon.

You know not to invite them again, lesson learnt.

The bolognaise portion sounds a little small and their reactions a little OTT, but I guess that’s how we have an obesity crisis…
Vegetables in a pasta sauce are fine, as long as they are properly cooked in.

My BIL is addicted to sweet stuff and he has been to stay with us a few times. We always provide a full array of meals, but he will go somewhere to buy a sweet treat at any opportunity, even if it requires a walk in the rain or he knows that a full roast is happening in an hour or so. It’s like a compulsion and, yes, he is probably obese.

You weren’t wrong and their manners are very poor, but they were probably genuinely shocked at the lack of carb-heavy or sugary breakfast items.

Generosity like yours is rarely appreciated.

600g mince
Mushrooms - watery
Veg - watery
Tiny amount of pasta

That sounds like a recipe for disaster.

Sorry to the op. But weve all had our off days hosting, it doesnt define her.

No it’s not , we all enjoy different things. We always go self catering, I hate hotels, and I really enjoy exploring supermarkets and markets to find unusual ingredients.

Where have you deduced the bolognese was watery? There is nothing in OP’s posts to suggest this? Or are you making things up to suit your (poor) argument.

"tonight sister had told me she can’t afford to go back to shop as they hadn’t budgeted for repeated shopping trips."

I don't understand this. Surely, even if they hadn't come on holiday, they would have been buying food for their own family for the week anyway, so what the problem is is budgeting. I think you've been more than generous and they need to get over themselves.

Her food isnt good sorry.

Dont invite normal people and offer them granola 🙄🙄 and watery bolognese

Make an effort for God's sake or dont bother!

As for the holiday - if its self catering, and youve rented somewhere with a massive kitchen, youre hosting!

I have said and will say, they should offer to pay towards food.

No she is not. She booked a holiday with her family. She invited (and paid for her sisters family) as a favour.

If hosting to you means providing non stop fatty fry ups and huge portions of junk food then that’s you…she has provided healthy food - they’ve turned their noses up. That’s on them and very rude.

Nobody is agreeing with you!

They are unpardonably rude. Don't invite them on any freebie holidays again.

I do think the bolognese portions sound a bit on the meagre side. And If I were minded to provide breakfasts for people, I would at the least buy in cereal and bread for toasting.

That said, their argument about not being able to afford to shop for their own foodstuff makes no sense. They would presumably have to shop at home if they hadn't come away. I think they should be offering to do a shop for you as thanks for your generosity.

I'm only surprised you and your sister didn't appear to have an idea of how different your dietary tastes were before you came away.

600g of mince for 5 people won't make a meaty sauce. It will be mostly tomato juice.

I think regardless off whether it’s enough food they are actually incredibly rude. We once stayed with DH’s relative and they were very odd about food. Toast for breakfast but kept repeating (to their own children not mine) ‘that’s enough margarine, you’re putting on too much jam’ it was very odd. They bought three small supermarket pizzas to share between 4 adults and 4 children, we were starving 😂 the best bit was when they cut 1 apple (yes you read that correctly, 1 apple) to split between 4 children as a snack!! My toddler could easily eat a full apple! So basically we were starving, kids were also very hungry but we didn’t say a word, we thanked them after every meal and then bought snacks ourselves when we were out!

Theres room for good quality food - and youre hosting people on holiday - is healthiness the primary concern right now?!

Imagine going on an all inclusive and deciding no-one should drink because youre being 'healthy'

Its not the proper thing to do!

How is it low quality? That breakfast is completely normal for many people across the world, particularly in the UK. I eat Greek yoghurt, muesli and berries most days for breakfast. It’s totally normal, as is spaghetti bolognese. If they don’t like OP’s cooking they can sit and eat donuts all week like Homer Simpson.

Are people really doing morning fry-ups?? Even on holiday I couldn't be arsed with that.

It all sounds excellent quality and homemade. Yoghurt, fruit, nuts, porridge, bolognese from scratch with lots of vegetables with garlic bread.

She has purposefully rented somewhere with a big kitchen, and wants to bake lovely stuff

She. Is. Hosting.