Sick of “it’s too hot to eat people”

I wish I was one of those people, unfortunately though hot weather just makes me really snacky and I want to live on crisps and ice cream.
In winter Im far more likely to make healthy nutritious meals....summer just makes me want Magnums and ready salted crisps!😆

Yes this is how I feel. If I lived alone I wouldn't have turned my oven on this week. But my DH & DS wanted 'proper meals' so I still had to cook 🤷‍♀️ I live in SE and far, far too hot and sticky here for me this week. Was 32 degrees here Sunday, Monday and Tuesday. yuck

Well you felt the need to tell us how little you had to eat all day…….not performative at all.

But yeah, I agree with you. Very annoying.

I do find my appetite to be affected by the heat, but I just eat later instead. Currently eating a fat plate of bolognese, rice, cheese and frankly obscene amounts of garlic bread. Bulking in summer isn't for the faint hearted.

Cook up a storm and let the wet wipes complain.

The heat makes me feel a bit nauseous so I eat less, usually just cold salad or snacks, when I’m abroad we eat much later so I can manage more but that doesn’t work when I want the dc to go to bed at a reasonable time

It is too to eat hot food 🤣
I'm only eating salads, fruit and ice cream at the moment
Nope cannot stomach the idea of chips or curry or meat 🙃

I have eaten like a sparrow the last few days. No appetite at all.

I don’t eat people, but I’m too hot to eat anything more than a yoghurt or a sandwich.

I had chicken and potato curry last night and we've got lamb chops and mash tonight. I did ask the family if they'd prefer cold food but no they were quite happy to eat what I cooked .
We do have salad but its on the ' i can't be bothered ' days out of sheer laziness not weather dependent

Uummmm - now, that surely depends on the size of the person you’re cooking, the size and greediness of your family. It’s going to take some working out.

I often feel too hot to eat. I just have no appetite when it's hot and humid. It's not a judgement on people who can eat, I just don't feel hungry. It's perfectly normal and maybe the reason why people in hotter countries tend to eat later when it's usually cooler.

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Whose idea was it for your DH to barbecue on such a hot day? If it was your idea then that was very inconsiderate of you. If it was his idea then I can see why he'd change his mind, but it was his own poor planning so he'd better cook it up in the next few days before it goes off. Luckily it's now slightly less hot out.

I went out for dinner on one of the 30+ heatwave days and ordered boeuf bourguignon, mash and red cabbage - my appetite and food choices remain unchanged!

I don't get why you think it's 'performative' as it's the case for many people.

Can you not just feed yourself and understand that people's bodies work differently in different situations?

YABU. Because it's too hot to eat.

And this is official, written in stone because my ds whose nickname is Pacman due to his ability to eat his way round the kitchen declared it was too hot to eat yesterday......after contemplating ringing an ambulance and declaring a state of emergency all I could do was agree and put my planned chicken kebabs back in the fridge. We ate a bowl of cereal each in shocked silence around 10pm.

Urgh, psychologically I want to eat, but cant eat as Im too hot, I feel sicky and have a funny tummy ache in the heat. I can eat small snacky bits instead.

Hot weather affects people’s appetite in different ways.
Also their temperament.

Appreciate I'm missing the point of the thread but those sardines sounds really nice. I'm totally going to try that.

Anyway, back to the original question: my family don't seem interested in eating in this heat either. They certainly aren't being dainty either, we all unashamedly love our food, hot weather just kills lots of people's appetite.

im not hungry at all in this heat. The heat also makes me very inactive which means less hungry

There are some items it’s too hot to eat or make.

for example I was going to bake some cheese scones over the weekend and I couldn’t face putting the oven on, and no one would have eaten hot cheesy baked things at that point. We had lovely BBQ food, baked potatoes on the BBQ and salad, olives, cold meats etc.

I disagree with this part. One of the first phrases I learned in Spanish was "el calor me quita la hambre". In Turkey they often said "hava yemek için çok sıcak" and everyone knew you were getting leftovers from the fridge at best.

I do agree that it was probably annoying, after all the prep you did, to hear that your DH and MIL were not interested in grilling and eating BBQ fare. They didn't hold up their end of the contract.

I've lived in a far hotter country than the uk and never had the issue of being too hot to eat, but in the uk I do have it, its humid not just hot, I feel sticky and irritated, I just feel too hot to eat anything apart from an ice lolly or some snacks, I don't want to have an actual meal. I don't see how its annoying to know your own body and that you don't want to eat a full meal, for whatever reason.

I feel like one of the many wonderful things of being an adult is that I have lots of autonomy. If it's too hot 'for me' to deal with proper meals then my fat body can choose to snack away as I like.

My husband is away this week and I got stuff in to make a chicken casserole thing. Stuck what I could in the freezer as the kids and I couldn't face any of that and we've been living off of various snacky things. None of us want to think about anything warm and luckily we have free will so we are doing what we like.