People need to think more outside the box with eating in hot weather

And what’s wrong with that? ‘People eat soup in cold weather’ shocker!

And what’s wrong with that? Surely a supermarket should be able to manage its stocks of tinned goods.

Lots of people bulk out meals with cheap fillers. This isn’t hard to understand. Ditto eating strawberries in the summer when they are in season and on offer. It’s not thoughtless sheep-like behaviour to eat seasonal ie cheaper food.

I only eat my iceberg cooked - and only half a dozen times a year so I’m not guilty of clearing out the shelves in an unimaginative way at the expense of people who want to eat lettuce purposefully and thoughtfully.

Spring onions, tomatoes, cucumber and cheese and egg. The lettuce definitely isn’t necessary!

"Why anyone would fancy say, a burger, in blistering heat is beyond me."
@CoffeeCantata
It's so weird that people have different tastes and like different thiings, don't you think??

Yes…….and actually teaching granny to suck eggs! Not a smart move on MN 😂

Here endeth the lettuce lecture. 🙄

I eat salad all year round, it's irritating going to a supermarket in hot weather to find i can't find any leaves for my sandwiches or my lunchtime salad, when the rest of the year it's all sat there for days. I can quite happily eat a bowl of cherry tomatoes or pick at some lettuce.

I cook in hot weather, I just don't slave over a hot oven. If I can put it in the oven and come back in 30 minutes I will.

Big stealth boast from me, I've got two troughs of salad leaves in my greenhouse (frisée, lola rossa, lambs lettuce, cos) so I don't need to go to Tesco, I just do a daily harvest of what I need so it's always fresh, and organic.

Lettuce is the easiest salad ingredient to grow this time of year, and saves a fortune, when you consider how much a piddly little bag of a few leaves costs.

Damn, I wanted to give you a laugh emoticon for your well-deserved post, and it's gone. That's a whole lot worse than salads in winter!

I’d like to speak up in defence of the iceberg lettuce. Since starting my weight loss injections, I have become an iceberg addict. Obviously it’s not the only lettuce/salad greenery I consume, but I have come (late in life) to appreciate its crispness, especially with grated carrot. It is much maligned, but has its uses.

I think on the whole British people are a bit crap at handling hot weather and also crap at general food prep so it’s all a bit chaotic and last minute! Many people have terrible eating habits and it much creativity when it comes to cooking!

The long, hot, humid summers we have where I live are the reason I get such good use from my Instant Pot and air fryer.

Love a salad but my salad staples are -

lettuce
spinich
cucumber
carrot
i put other stuff in but if one of those is missing I don’t bother

This is weird to me. I live in the Caribbean where it’s hot 365 days a year and sure I eat salads most days for lunch but all our family dinners are hot meals or spicy curries.
Today it was 35oc and I ate carrot and ginger soup at lunch and roasted cauliflower soup for dinner. My kids have eaten a spaghetti bolognese.

I’m assuming most people in UK go nuts for salad and cold food in summer because most homes don’t have AC and nobody wants additional heat from the oven/cooker further heating a home you’re desperately trying to cool down…

Careful Mumsnetters, I think OP is coming for our salad. She's going to lead a campaign à la Jamie Oliver, but instead of Turkey Twizzlers she's coming for the famous Mumsnet Massive Salad (TM) and trying to get us to think differently about our lunches by getting us to sniff different vegetables and grow our own.

(Btw I love a Greek salad).

I agree. I hate lettuce and have watercress and rocket as green leaves
Anything goes in a salad here( minus the lettuce!)

Or the supermarket could just get in more salad when they know it’s going to be hot?

There are various issues with that - firstly, weather forecasting isn't an exact science. We all have our own examples of times when predictions were wrong and parties were rained off or conversely we sweltered all day in overly warm clothing. I'm sure there are many situations where weather has been colder than expected and a lot of salad has not been sold and gone to waste.

And the salad has to be available to purchase from suppliers. If the weather is warmer than expected they might not be enough salad stockpiled in warehouse chillers or ripe and ready to harvest to satisfy demand .

Or the supermarket could just get in more salad when they know it’s going to be hot?

i always want some sort of leaves with my salad. I might also say “you can’t have salad without leaves” because that’s how I generally eat salad. That’s how I like it. And that’s ok, we can like different things.

Having said all that we eat generally the sales things all year round. I certainly don’t have salad everyday when it’s hot. I’d get very bored of that very quickly. We usually have salad with something for a main meal, but do this all year round - it dependent on what we are eating, not the time of year. Yesterday we had moussaka with salad. Today we had soup.

....this does keep me awake nights, to be honest.

Why oh why oh why are people so unimaginative about salad? Sometimes I just lie there gazing out of the window for hours. I really don't know what the solution is...

It was years ago, and all I can remember was the look on Paaaaat's face at the very idea of eating a salad in winter!

@Glitterblue says 'people have zero imagination'.

I hope @Glitterblue appreciates that he/she is a person and therefore included in this sweeping generalisation.

I was never bothered about lettuce but I must admit I'm mildly addicted to M&S Rosa Verde bagged salad. It's bloody lovely. Good, varied texture and stays crispier for longer than other bagged salads. We get through a good few bags a week, which is an outrageous expense really but if it tempts me to eat salad every day then I reckon it's worth it.

As the daughter of parents from a hot Asian country, I’m laughing at some of the comments on this thread.