How are you doing with meals during the hot weather?

Jacket potatoes in the air fryer, salads ( and we are very creative with ours - grated carrot with an orange peeled and diced, lovely home made coleslaw, home grown beetroot, chopped apple with nuts in mayonnaise, tinned sweetcorn, picked red onion all of which make the usual lettuce, tomatoes, radishes , cucumber go further and much more interesting.
Jackets are often replace with boiled new potatoes and maybe some raw shelled peas from the garden.
Weekends we probably put the slow cooker on so less heat in the kitchen and no need to stand over a hot cooker.

Sandwiches or cheese and crackers.

Salad sandwiches, porridge, eggs, chicken stew with vegetables, fish for dinner, with rice or roasted vegetables and all small things on the side like avocado as it is, boiled corn, various cheeses etc. This is what we eat anyway

A lot of fruit and ice cream daily

Salads mostly not hungry today its just too hot 🥵

I'm having 2 slices of chicken. The rest of the plate is covered in 4 different vegetables. Ice cream with fresh fruit afterwards.
I have a small sandwich with fruit at lunch and cereal instead of usual porridge for breakfast.

Salad and quiche, salad and prawns with avocado, salad with coronation chicken, salad salad salad! We shall be turning into rabbits!

Salads, Mediterranean style tappas meals with olive bread.
Fresh fruit, lots of berries from the garden, yoghurt and ice cream. Eaten outside in a cool spot.

Slices of sourdough with Cambazola followed by lots of strawberries. Washed down with fresh raspberry lemonade. 😋

Turkey and salad sandwich for lunch
Cherries

This evening

Marinated chicken cooked on barbecue, salad and either quinoa, vegetable rice or chips.

Yogurt and strawberries

I made a huge ratatouille as aubergines and red peppers were on offer, it’s very useful to have in the fridge
On its own, lots of grated Parmesan and crusty bread for lunch, as a filling for jacket potatoes, last night had it with chicken breast.
I cook in a roasting tin in the oven late in the evening with the door open and only takes about 45mins.

Toast for breakfast, watermelon for lunch and now lightly spiced seabass with rice and salad

Salads all the way! And lots of cottage cheese.

Marks and Spencer is my friend, they have a lot of new deli and salad items at the moment, so we have been taking advantage of them. I don’t want anything that I have to prepare or cook just now, and I don’t want to raise the temperature in the house by switching the cooker on. We’ve had a couple of barbecues but I don’t have to cook then.

Cold meats, smoked salmon, boiled eggs, pork pie, quiche, coleslaw, beetroot salad, rice salad or anything else you can find that I don't have to cook.

I've more or less given up eating but I am drinking plenty of water and taking multivitamins. Not a good idea long term I know.

Salads made up of whatever is in fridge that can be chopped up. Couscous with salt, curry powder and feta. Rice salads.
Mostly cooked early in the day and eaten cold later including meat.
Love it and means that the chef gets some time off.

Strawberries and cucumber were sold out at Lidl today so I'll have to make do without
I have lots of lettuce in the garden but the pigeons have gobbled all my berries.
Lucky I'm not too hungry but I've invited 2 friends for supper.

I’ve just been down to the square below. I’ve had fish & chips. Very nice, no hob or oven on in this heat and on the way back up I went into Thornton’s for two scoops of vanilla ice cream for Himself. We must look an odd couple eating (occasionally) at the table together these days.

Just had fish and chips on the seafront. Later we might have fresh fruit with blackberry & vanilla ice cream - although we're pretty stuffed right now!

Running out of salad - must top up tomorrow I think if I can be bothered to shop.

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I’m already sick of salads 😩

Mostly I’m just carrying on as normal but not bothering with potatoes, pasta or rice as I’m low carbing.

We have been having fridge tapas, especially as it's Wimbledon fortnight Just come back from Spain, where the advice given for dealing with a heatwave, is not to open the oven door from the 1st of May until the 1st October. Sounds good to me!

Crackers and sun dried tomato houmous, followed by a bowl of raspberries and cream. Who needs an oven 😊

Normal menu here, cottage pie last night with three veg, quiche, new potatoes, carrots and peas tonight.
We rarely eat desserts.