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Do you cook when on holiday?? 🧐

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Norah Sat 20-Sept-25 15:27:20

Yes we cook on holiday. Apart from cruises.

Ladyleftfieldlover Sat 20-Sept-25 14:56:14

I love cooking but NEVER on holiday! If we’re on a hotel or a cruise ship obviously everything is done for us. In a holiday house we have our usual breakfast of cereal, toast and fruit. We always eat lunch out and in the evening a bowl of cereal or a banana.

escaped Sat 20-Sept-25 14:55:04

No, but my resident super chef does. šŸ‘Øā€šŸ³

It's easy when there's so many lovely ingredients in the market.

Oreo Sat 20-Sept-25 14:48:56

Haven’t had a holiday for a while but don’t mind some cooking as you can make easy meals and salads. The last holiday we cooked four meals in the evening and went out to eat for the other few days.Whatever works for you.

MissChateline Sat 20-Sept-25 14:45:35

If we are away in my small Campervan I love to cook. Rustling some up using locally bought treats, fish, steak etc on two small gas rings is fun. Sometimes a BBQ and salads. Washing up in a river or the sea equally fun. Collecting wood for a campfire on the beach or twigs for the Gilly kettle and heating the water for washing. All great outdoors fun.
Away abroad it’s eating out and just as enjoyable.

Babs03 Sat 20-Sept-25 14:40:34

We also did it in the past when the children were small, but options to eat out in the UK back then with children were more limited, and we didn’t have the money.
Now we see it as a perk of having survived that chapter of our lives.

aonk Sat 20-Sept-25 14:33:30

Absolutely not! It’s not just the cooking. It’s the deciding on a menu and the shopping!
I like doing these at home but never elsewhere.

Grannybags Sat 20-Sept-25 14:23:58

No!

I have done in the past when the children were small but not since it's just been the two of us.

Even if we're in a lovely holiday cottage with all the facilities we still eat out

keepingquiet Sat 20-Sept-25 13:41:39

Never, even when my kids were little we stayed in BB& evening meal places in this country.

How would it have been a holiday if I was shopping and cooking?

whywhywhy Sat 20-Sept-25 13:33:44

No. It’s our holiday and I’ll stay at home if I have to cook.

Pantglas2 Sat 20-Sept-25 13:31:32

I don’t either as eating out is all part of the getting-away-from-it-all, along with the sunshine and sightseeing.

However…I have to admit by the end of the holiday I’m pining to stir something in my own tiny kitchen - sad or wot?🫨

Kate1949 Sat 20-Sept-25 13:26:27

Never

crazyH Sat 20-Sept-25 13:25:37

Never.
I don’t usually have breakfast anyway, but for lunch and Dinner we were always out. So would get a light lunch in a Cafe and then a lovely Dinner at a Restaurant.
While on a Cruise…….say no more !!!

Babs03 Sat 20-Sept-25 13:25:34

NotAGran55

Never cook, not even a slice of toast.
Eating out is one of the high lights of the holiday for us, often planned around the local restaurants.

Yes we have done this often looking up reviews on TripAdvisor, then adding our own review.

GrannyGravy13 Sat 20-Sept-25 13:22:03

NO

NotAGran55 Sat 20-Sept-25 13:21:54

Never cook, not even a slice of toast.
Eating out is one of the high lights of the holiday for us, often planned around the local restaurants.

merlotgran Sat 20-Sept-25 13:19:22

Not if I can help it but I love cooking so wouldn’t mind so long as somebody else did the washing up.

Babs03 Sat 20-Sept-25 13:16:35

One of the criteria for a relaxing holiday in my book is that I don’t have to cook. We don’t always go to a hotel that provides all the meals though, quite often we go B&B then eat out, or self catering and just grab cereal and a yogurt in our accommodation in the morning before eating out for the rest of the day.
Have been cooking for the family and DH all my life and have enjoyed it at times, but it can be a chore and holidays are supposed to be chore free.
How do you feel about it?