To hot to cook. Summer cool off meals?

Whatcha eat when it is hotter than hell? Gimmee some ideas for dinner that is tasty, filling, and COOL!

 

a BIG salad w/ ranch dressing & good crusty bread on the side.

 

Pasta salad. I get the Suddenly Salad kits for cheap, and then I usually have sealed containers of various types of cooked and chopped meat in my fridge, so that my family can just grab a little and add it to the pasta salad, or ramen noodles, or whatever.

Sandwiches are also nice. You just have to put a little imagination into them to make them DINNER, and not just a boring snack. I like chicken or turkey deli meat on croissants with whole-berry cranberry sauce spread on one side and herbed cream cheese spread on the other, with a little bit of butter lettuce for crunch.

Now, if you don't mind the food being heated but you don't want to get the house hot cooking it, crock-pots are your best friend.

 

Ice cream

 

yum.

 

Fruit Salad and a watermelon ice smoothy....

 

We are empty nesters, my husband drinks beer, and I eat watermelon, strawberry greek yogurt, ice cream.

 

Pasta salads are good--throw in whatever you have around. The only thing is, you need to think ahead and boil the macaroni first thing in the morning before it gets hot.

 

I like your hubbie...

 

Best thing about Suddenly Salad is that my kids are fully capable of making it, AND they really like them, so it's all ready when I come home from work.