Nice but easy self catering meals?

[Acunningruse]

We have booked to go to a lodge once they re-open. My brain is fried from homeschooling at the same time as working but I have a day off so trying to plan what we need. Normally we would eat out some of the time but I think even with restrictions lifted we are unlikely to do this.

What 'nice' but quick/easy/no special ingredients or equipment needed meals do you make when you go self catering?

I can literally only think of a bbq and tbh I'm not sure that's not more faff than it's worth.

We have little ones so tend to only eat out lunch. We usually go to m and s and get a load of nice treats.

Evenings
Steak and chips and salad
BBQ
Summer platter. Like cold meats, coleslaw, fresh bread, new potatoes, cheeses. That can then do a lunch as well.
Marks and spencer nice bits, or ready meals a couple of nights.

The kids always chose a night, usually meatballs with spaghetti and garlic bread,

We usually take a couple of meals that are cooked already and frozen like bolognese or chicken curry. Then you just cook the spaghetti or rice.
Baked potatoes.
Pizza
Pasta and pesto
Pita breads and chicken

Bread and cheese, olives, sliced meats, salads, more.baby tomatoes tham you can imagine.
Quiches, pies to put in oven, pizzas, more veg to just cut up
Full English - eggs, bacon, sausage, mushroom, toast, juice. Also pastries, coffee, special cereals for kids.

High quality pizza, ready made lasagne with salad and garlic bread, loads of nibbles/tapas that you can pick on over a bottle of wine, tray bakes.

Fajitas. Southern fried chicken wraps and salad.

We normally take a frozen made at home spag Bol or chilli and then just have with pasta/rice & garlic bread.
Pizzas with salad.
We often take our slow cooker & get pork shoulder and have pulled pork with wraps, coleslaw and corn on the cob. Usually loads of pulled pork so use the rest for next days picnic or a stir fry.

We often take the slow cooker with us when self catering or camping (campervan has a leisure battery and sockets.) Then we just eat chilli for days.

Fajitas
Lasagne with garlic bread and salad
BBQ
Cold picnic sort of things and salads, especially in warm weather
Shellfish of some sort - shell on pint of prawns type thing, mussels in garlic sauce (the sort you buy in the packet and just tip out into a saucepan) with bread and salad - my 2 dc could live off this for days, maybe they are odd though
Baked fish, new potatoes and salad

You could bake a ham before you go, take it and slice for lunch or chop up to put into pasta sauce. My dm baked one and took it to Spain with us on holiday when we were little. Fed us loads that week!

@ComtesseDeSpair that sounds like heaven to me.

Lots of good ideas already covered but I’ll add tuna nicois with proper tuna steaks and fresh pasta with local crab, chilli and cherry tomatoes if you are by the coast!

This doesn't really come under the category of 'nice food' but we normally take a few tins / jars with us that don't need chilling eg gallo risotto pronto , pasta, pesto, tinned chilli and rice and some pre-baked bread. That way we always have food for a few meals and if plans change there's no worry about use by dates.

We eat loads of bread, cheese , tomatoes and olives wherever we are holidaying .