I have a 2-bedroom apartment in the old town of Ljubljana, Slovenia. It is more luxury than budget conscious.
For our guests we leave a "first breakfast package" -
fresh bread,
eggs,
jam,
butter,
ham & cheese,
juice,
milk,
ground coffee & teas,
honey,
flour and sometimes oatmeals in the cupboard
+ welcome drink (beer or wine),
biscuits and candy,
and many times some fruits too.
But right now we are reconsidering how many items we should leave in the apartment as usually nobody eats the bread, or they only take a slice and leave the rest - many things get thrown away. We otherwise use the opened carton of milk for our coffee, but juice gets rarely drunk and bread usually gets too dry to eat after the guest leaves (especially after longer stays as we don't enter the apartment while someone is staying).
So right now we are thinking about only leaving the basic "continental breakfast" things in the fridge - (per person) small packets of butter, jam, honey, small juice boxes and small carton of milk, toast packets in the freezer, beer and coffee & teas.
Usually our guests are really happy with the stocked fridge and also comment on it. But the cost of everything is pretty high (the whole "first breakfast" comes to roughly 10% of the 1 night rate, and we throw away half the cost).
Along with food, we provide our guests with extra towels to take if needed, socket adapters, washing detergent, umbrellas and many more. They can even use a shared espresso coffee machine free of charge in the building anytime they want. Maybe we should add a tip jar next to the machine to cover the coffee beans? 🙂
I am also wondering what others leave for the guests!