Do people buy lunch and dinner out on holidays?

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When we go on holidays in e.g. France Spain, Italy, we get our breakfast included with the hotel. We eat dinner out in a restaurant. For lunch, we go to a supermarket and get rolls and ham/cheese.

I see lots of people eating a main course at lunchtime. Do those people eat a dinner in the evening as well? Surely this would cost a lot. Any hot lunch could come to 20 euro by the time people get water, coffee after.

What do people generally do? I know people staying in apartments would get breakfast and lunch in the apartment, and eat out for dinner.

I asked people but they evaded the question irl. Dh would eat enough at breakfast to keep going until dinner but I find this uncomfortable.

We are eatig out every day on holiday people. There are only two of us which helps, also we prioritise that over other things - we tend to go for fairly basic hotels or apartments - none of this five star of swim up pool stuff - as long as it is clean, functional, has an ensuite bathroom and is safe we are fine.

Rarely stay in hotels, never eat in them now children are grown. I had enough years of children at hotel buffet breakfasts to last me a lifetime.

(Muuuuuum! She had three boxes of coco pop rocks and you said only one sugary cereal box with breakfast… Shut up, I did not! But you dropped your sausage on the floor at the buffet and kicked it under the table…)

Breakfast is a pastry and an orange juice in the hotel room/holiday let, or on the hoof. Coffee out late morning.
Lunch out around 2ish, give or take.
Late dinner (around 9pm) out or self catering depending on where we’re staying. Occasionally grabbing a pizza on the way back from wherever we’ve been for the day.

But you don't know these people. You don't know what they had for breakfast or if they are out for the day and return to a AI/HB hotel where they may or may not eat dinner when they had a long lunch.

Similar you don't know what they had for lunch when you see people in restaurants in the evening.

When DD was small we always self-catered and had mostly lunches out and tapas style food or a BBQ at the villa. Breakfast was small, baguette/rolls with jam and honey.

I love a picnic in the park or at the beach but not every day or if I can't keep food cool until lunch time. So we may do it in France or Germany but not necessarily in Spain or Greece.