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Yes, we eat very differently as the seasons change: Summer; grill a couple times of more a week; lots of salads, especially fruit salads, more ice cream and more fresh veggies.
Winter, more soups and stews, less seafood as the choices are so limited. Though I don't bake a lot anytime of the year, I bake more in the winter.
The one thing that stays pretty much the same: we try to have a carb, a protein and a fresh vegetable for dinner every night, with the veggie being green or a mixture. Sometimes I use frozen veggies.
Yes, we eat very differently as the seasons change: Summer; grill a couple times of more a week; lots of salads, especially fruit salads, more ice cream and more fresh veggies.
Winter, more soups and stews, less seafood as the choices are so limited. Though I don't bake a lot anytime of the year, I bake more in the winter.
The one thing that stays pretty much the same: we try to have a carb, a protein and a fresh vegetable for dinner every night, with the veggie being green or a mixture. Sometimes I use frozen veggies.
Your dinner looks a lot like our dinner, nita. That's our basic formula too. We also do more soups and stews in the winter and grill more in the summer. I don't eat salad though. My wife does, but I stay away from it. I prefer to roast or steam my veggies.
It does change throughout the year. In the summer we belong to a CSA and eat a ton more veggies than during the colder months. I also try to buy fruit that is seasonal now its citrus and very affordable. In the summer I buy more fruit watermelon, blackberries, blueberries, strawberries, peaches etc this is in addition to what the csa offers.
I think humans have always followed the seasons when eating now you can buy anything you want year round and that is not exactly good for the environment.
Here we have ready access to fresh local produce all year round, so we always have fresh vegetables, fruits, and salads. I just bought strawberries at the farmer's market this morning! I try hard not to buy anything imported from another hemisphere, like peaches in January. Bad for the environment and never tastes very good anyway!
I definitely do more "cool" meals like a dinner salad or pasta in the summer, and more soups, stews, root vegetables and potatoes, etc., in the winter. That's just because we feel like cool food when it's hot and hot food when it's cool, not because I can't get lettuce in winter or potatoes in summer.
One thing I never do is grill. I can't understand the obsession with grilling, summer or not!
I grill and BBQ year-round because it tastes great.
Oh absolutely! I've grilled while it was -20 outside. The gas grill becomes ineffective, so that's when I shift to the old Weber kettle! I look like a coal tender operator shoveling briquettes in that bad boy though! "Engineer says we need MORE BTU'S BOYS!!!"
Hell me and a group of buddy's grill while ice fishing- Mmmm-mmmm! Nothing like plank grilling a fresh caught rainbow or walleye!
Man- nothing like grilling in the dead of winter. I swear that food tastes better, lol.
I eat a lot of soup and chili in the winter. I eat more salads and lighter foods in the summer, although this winter I have been eating a lot of salads.
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