Am I cooking shit or being stingy??

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.

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!

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.

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

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!

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

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.

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?

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.

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.

What?!

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

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?

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.

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!

I wouldn't like the breakfast at all so would go out and get some.
The dinner sounds sparse, I would always cook too much rather than too little.

That said, they were incredibly rude and there is no excuse for that.

The Fair to Middling, I loved that book!

in case anyone thinks I’m on the wrong thread, the book had characters called fattypuffs and thinnifers.

It sounds like the bil and the teen who are the main problem. For him to say 'here's the catch' suggests a right chip on his shoulder about his free holiday, and for her to openly call the food 'shit' and do the disgusted pantomime of dropping it off the spoon as described suggests a deeply horrible attitude. I think they will definitely be unpleasant about the paella! So you either have to fund their choice of food along with the holiday or else stick to your guns about them feeding themselves.

You have restraint, OP, bil would end up with bolognese over his head if I was in your shoes!

THEY ARE NOT GUESTS... THEY ARE THE OP SISTER AND HER FAMILY WHO HAVE BEEN GIVEN A FREE HOLIDAY

They are completely not guests. They have been given a freebie and are complaining ungrateful idiots

Ok, you said it was one initially, now youve upped it.

Saying a portion size is too small, when asked on aibu isnt the same as having a dig at someone's weight, which I am sure you know full well. Its alright though

I am fed and happy, just like my guests are when I host them

If you invite someone to a holiday home, with a kitchen youre looking forward to cooking in, youre a host!

Its a matter of opinion i guess, but imo, the op is the host. The family should have insisted on providing food/reimbursing for food costs and offered to share the cooking load

Sorry but ye all should have gone shopping together if you were all to eat together. I think my kids and myself would have been a bit shocked at porridge etc for breakfast, breakfast on holidays is pastries and fruit and cornflakes or a fry up!!! The bolognaise sounds quite small stretched between so many people to me tbh too

If my children had been so rude to their auntie, they wouldn't be getting anything to eat until they apologised properly. OP your food sounds absolutely fine, it's a pity your guests are so rude and ignorant.