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K Frame:
When I was a kid I lived in an old Victorian house with no central AC. We had an AC in the kitchen and Mom and Dad had an AC in their bedroom, but that was it.

Because of that, we had a LOT of cold evening meals in the summer -- pasta salads, chicken or tuna salad, straight salad, even jello salads filled with vegetables, olives (yuk!), chicken, etc.

Anyway, despite the jello hell, some of that rubbed off on me and when it's really hot and humid I'll often make either cucumbers with curried chicken salad or I'll take a nice, vine ripe tomato, cut out the center, and stuff it with chicken or tuna salad.

One of the hardest things about living in metro Washington, DC, is not being able to consistently get really good farm fresh produce. It's fairly easy to get decent cucumbers, sweet corn is iffy, and tomatoes and stone fruits? Yeah, no.

Anyway, when it gets really hot and humid, do you make any changes to your diet to deal with it?

Kingcreek:
BLTs, or anything on the BBQ grill. Frequent salads.
I like chili in hot weather just as much as winter.

Ben:
I don't really eat dinner regardless, but for the midday meal, when it's hot I lean towards stuff like cold turkey sandwiches, or make some quick tacos or something. Or occasionally hit the local burger joint. I seem to eat take-out more when it's hot than when it's cold. In the Winter I'll make the burger at home. On a hot Summer day, I'll run to the burger joint for a pastrami burger and chocolate-huckleberry milkshake.  =)

JTHunter:
Single use chicken salad kits from Aldi's, PB&J, various lunchmeats & cheese sandwiches, cottage cheese, LOTS of iced tea, ice cream, ice water, etc.
Almost nothing cooked that day but I do batches of hard-boiled eggs.  Most are for breakfast with a chunk of hard cheeses (CoJack, extra sharp cheddar, swiss, Monteray Jack, etc.), raw fruits and veggies as a part of supper (usu. carrots & radishes, sometimes celery, even less frequently cauliflower & broccoli).

Perd Hapley:

--- Quote from: Kingcreek on June 23, 2024, 08:23:18 AM ---BLTs, or anything on the BBQ grill. Frequent salads.
I like chili in hot weather just as much as winter.

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I don't understand why grilling is more of a summer than a winter thing.

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