Sick of “it’s too hot to eat people”

Why didn’t you just bbq the chicken yourself, though?

I find it too hot to eat. As soon as the temperature hits 24C, my appetite disappears and I live on fruit, coffee and water. No alcohol either. Or ice cream. They make me feel ill.

Cook the chicken and eat what you need OP. Leave the rest in the fridge for tomorrow with salad.

I had oxtail stew last night, chicken curry tonight.
I really can't understand not wanting hot food in hot weather.
I've lived in a hot country, & the locals eat the same sort of meals all year round.

Snacking on sardines is arguably weirder than not wanting to cook 🫣

I think the cannibalism thing got tired after a couple of posts personally!

I don’t think being a size 8 means you can never be gluttonous or that being bigger means that any time you are hungry that must be the case?

Not that I think being hungry in hot weather means that you are. I think there’s some relevance in you being smaller in that perhaps it means you get hungry more frequently, but I think that most women tend to compared to men (I think there’s evidence men can keep going in fewer, larger meals, whilst women are more step up for “little and often” in general).

Anyway, none of this means you couldn’t have cooked for yourself or that any of you are wrong.

We have been eating our main meal later in the evening during the hot days, and having less food, and food that doesn’t need cooking, during the day.

But it was OK to expect your dh to,stand over a hot fire?

I find I prefer to eat people in winter when it's cold. A nice roast with potatoes and veg.

On papaua New Guinea prople used to cook and eat deceased family members.

it’s believed to have caused a neurological disease - Kuru

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kuru_(disease)

so I’d recommend avoiding the brains

Love OP replying, but valiantly ignoring the whole cannibalism thing

Depends what you're eating, I think. A few years back I went for a walk with friends on a boiling hot day and they had a Sunday roast when we stopped off at a pub for lunch. It was the speciality of that particular pub, but even so I couldn't fathom wanting a steaming great plateful of meat, spuds and veg in the heat, and ordered a salad. I was in the minority, though, as most people seemed to be having the roast!

The men should cook the people. For sure.

Eating - yes. Cooking - not so much!

I get where OP is coming from. It’s not so much the fact some people’s appetite decreases in the heat, but more the performative banging on about ‘I couldn’t possibly eat in this weather’.

Especially when the people doing this are often eating just as much as others calorie wise, but are just having it in the form of snacks, smaller meals, and often alcohol.

I remember eating a pretty unremarkable meal of salmon, chips and peas on a hot day while a relative droned on about how she was ‘too hot to eat’. All while eating crisps, dips, nuts and drinking at least 3 alcoholic drinks. Which I’m sure added up to a lot more calories than my meal!

It's not performative, I bloody love food but have not been able to face cooking or eating dinner for the last few evenings.

Do you think they’re making it up OP? What would be the point? I definitely feel less hungry in warmer weather. Shame it’s not hot all the time - I’d be like a whippet🤣 You eat what you want and enjoy it and let other people do as they please.

Cutting up is fine so long as you remember to label and date them.

I am feeling hungry now. Going to check the larder.

For afters, something light and tangy like a lemon meringue pie, or a Solero.

Are you keeping the person whole? My freezer not that big so would definitely need to be cut up.

I can’t tell if I’m thirsty because I never feel like a glass of water, but I’ve learned that when I don’t feel hungry, to drink something because usually I’m too thirsty to eat.

Actually I’ve learned to reach for water anytime I’m feeling anything - sad, worried, upset, hot, irritable, tired, frustrated, sluggish, impatient, hungry, not hungry, itchy. I usually feel 80% better after a drink and can problem solve the other 20%

I’ve only tested this theory with water, mind. But if you want to experiment with wine and beer, you could post the results.

So? people are different. That doesn't mean they are performing or 'pulling crap'.
You sound pretty unpleasant!

Lots of people don't havd much appetite when it's hot. Doesn't mean that you can't eat if you want to.

Why didn't you just BBQ them yourself instead of ordering food?

I definitely don't have as much of an appetite in the heat. I'm obese and feel the heat a lot, it light blow your mind to learn that MIL feels the same.

Crikey, I’m a size 12 and want to eat in this heat. Dis that make me gluttonous?

I’m having an ice cream every day. Sometimes twice. And it’s not even that hot where I am. 😄