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

[Nickynicks]

Worked at a supermarket. When we had warm weather like we are forecast for the next week, the salad section- more so with lettuce, we ran out. Customers were moaning about no lettuce/bags of salad leaves. “You can’t have salad without lettuce”. You can! The dictionary definition of salad is a “dish mainly of cold and raw vegetables usually with hot and cold protein or carbs”. Where is the lettuce featured? Plus I had salad when eating out. On a few occasions, I had no lettuce. Various tomatoes, onions etc.

Then overhead people say “I’m sick of salads” by day 5 of the warm weather. Do people who live where hot summers are the norm, eat salads all the time? No! I know that their homes are better to deal with hot weather as our homes are designed to keep warm in the winter.

You can cook food. Ideally not in the oven or hob. But can cook in microwave or air fryer/multicooker (on options where lid is closed). Kitchen doesn’t get that hot that way

Or get some nice bread, cheeses, tomatoes, anti pasti.

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!

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.

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.

Here endeth the lettuce lecture. 🙄

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

"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??

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

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.

They are the same ones when it snows or mentions that word in the weather forecast, "ooh, lets get some tins of soup in".

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

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