Am I cooking shit or being stingy??

Though I have to say I tend to cook for an army and be generous when I don't know people's appetites, rather than ration out so much per person. People might be super hungry and want seconds.

I agree - it’s terrible how rude and ungrateful they are and it shouldn’t matter if you are stingy, a bad cook or not to their taste they can be grateful and help or sort themselves out. But yes the pasta and sauce sounds very small (we do 500g pasta and 450g mince and for 2 adults and 2 children under 9 and there may be a portion left over depending on the day) - and we are slim / try to be healthy ish house

But anyone who regularly ate the right amount of food would probably not want extra on holiday.

They sound very rude.

And tell your rude guests to piss off and feed themselves.

600g mince for 6/7 people is ridiculously stingy!

your dd attitude is awful- spoilt, ungrateful, entitled. Bil is rude.

They are incredibly rude. Although that doesn’t sound like what I would want to eat on holiday (nothing wrong with it, just very normal and unexciting) they have some nerve complaining. That said, if I was cooking on holiday for a group I would probably try to plan something everyone would like and also split the costs between us.

I do 70g of pasta per person! With bolegnese, parmesan and garlic bread it's plenty and I'm not a competitive undereater by any stretch 😂

So you don't like cooking on holiday. Why is it bonkers that the op does?

Whether or not 75g of pasta is enough or if people do or don't like porridge, nothing excuses the bil saying 'prison food', 'where's the rest of it' and 'here comes the catch' when he has contributed nothing, and the teen making faces and calling the food 'shit'. They can eat what the OP provides, feed themselves or go home.

Blimey this is why I would never go on holiday with anyone else!
Your breakfast is almost my ideal. I would add some crusty bread and honey. I don't like pastry or cooked food for breakfast. In fact I'm away myself ATM with Adult DC and while I won't be cooking I have brought breakfast bits. Granola and toastie bread. If that's not enough they can go out for breakfast!
Your spag bol sounds lovely but I would always do more pasta than I think is enough.

It's sobering isn't it. The Bolognese sauce with all the extra ingredients sounds delicious. I love bacon in ours too.

I find this bupa healthy portion guide helpful. It recommends 75g dry pasta a person.
https://www.bupa.co.uk/newsroom/ourviews/portion-size-guide

Really, I thought 50g was standard?

It sounds fine and adequate,I think many people over eat. However, this is why I hate self catering.

I don’t understand the hosting thing. Op rented a holiday house. Realised there’s extra room and invited sister and family to stay for free.
I’d expect sister to have chipped in with food.
A few years ago my sibling kindly offered for me and dd to share their holiday house as it had an extra bedroom. I contributed to food and helped cook/prep food. I certainly didn’t sit on my bum waiting to be served. They are vegetarian I’m not, I certainly didn’t complain it wasn’t meat based meals. It was very kind to invite us.

No the portion control…the claims that 75 grams of pasta (plus all the bolognese) and 2 loaves of garlic bread isn’t enough. That breakfast must be a fry up every day and granola and porridge isn’t cutting it…but mainly the portion sizes.

Huh, huh?
Do you measure spag, gram by portion?
It's all a bit food countie.
Uh huh.

Chanelling Elvis of course. Uh huh

Please stop harassing me.

How many times can everyone including the OP tell you on this thread - they are not guests. The OP is NOT hosting them.

They are on a joint holiday (which is free for the sister’s family) and as such they should all be chipping in with everything.

Cook for your family and let them fend for themselves.

It’s not though is it, there is no obesity crisis because people eat a bit more on holiday. To think that is a gross misunderstanding of why we have an obesity crisis and it’s not holiday consumption.

Your sister and family are incredibly rude and ungrateful.
To the pp's who are slating the op for being stingy, criticising her choice of food served to her guests: you sound as rude and ungrateful as the op's family. She's uninvited them along to SHARE her holiday and food, at no cost to them. They laugh at her, criticise her, exclaim there's a catch as they have to go and buy some food if they're still hungry?? I'd tell them to f back home if they don't like it!
Op never signed up to be their personal chef, cooking up sumptious breakfasts and three course meals. She invited them to SHARE.
And fwiw, the portion recommrndations on the pasta I buy is 75g pp. They sound greedy as f.
Bet they never even offered to clear the plates away or wash up as well!

I was thinking the same thing…

I’m afraid I also think the op offered to host her family, they are her guests, and she does know they’ve no money. These are facts she’s stated,

I think they’ve been incredibly rude, and of course rhey should eat what is given with enthusiasm and gratitude,

but personally when I host I do not do strict portions served up. I find it stingy, I’d never dream of measuring out 75g of pasta for everyone . And 600 grams of mince for 7 people is a below the recommended quantity, which should be 100-150.

personally I aim to allow people to eat as much or as little as they please and have some extra, I’d never invite anyone and give them recommend portion sizes or smaller, with a couple of small bits of garlic bread to pad it out.

so I find fault on both sides, I think the sister and hee family have behaved appallingly, but I think the op has been stingy and I’d not serve kids porridge or yoghurt unless I knew that’s what they liked.

the simple fact is she chose to invite them, she offered. For me it’s either do so generously or don’t do it at all.

so yes, fault on both sides,