OS Summer Cooking

tori.k

Its the same in our house with the lighter nights it gets harder to pin my teenage lads down to meal-times when there is sports to be played, i fill the fridge with pasta/ couscous salads sliced meats, sausage rolls etc etc then they can help themselves, my lot will go thru 2 loaves of bread a day during the summer months that and fruit they can help themselves to, but i warned them off the cereal as it started to cost a small fortune

Aarons_mummy

I'm finding I don't want to cook but I do want to eat lol!

Hmm I'm thinking of making boiled eggs, grated cheese, cold pasta salads, chicken mayo and sweetcorn, tuna and sweetcorn etc. Grated carrot as well as cucumber, peppers and carrot sticks, cold meats, scotch eggs, sausage rolls, cocktail sausages, coleslaw, potato salad.

Maybe some stuffed tomatoes, cold rice/cous cous salads and just a bowl of plain chopped salad.

MaggieBaking

ClaireBear - what's your recipe for coleslaw?

yummymummy1987_2

Thankyou for all the replys will bookmark them links and have a look through.
Had gammon with lettuce,peppers,sweetcorn,beetroot,croutons,waldorf salad (although that was shop bought this time) and balsamic dressing tonight with exotic fruit salad for pud. Was gorgeous, popped into sainsburys about 4.30 and they had tons of salad and fruit reduced :T
Look forward to trying the recipes over the coming weeks

curlytop12

my lovely italian friend served this yesterday,i couldn't get enough!

sliced boiled potatoes
sliced peppers
slicesd onions-red/white/spring-doesn't matter
sliced celery
sliced tomatoes

mix all together in a marinade of olive oil,oregano,garlic,little lemon juice.

sonnythecat

I find it much harder to wrestle our food bill to the ground in the summer. In the winter, though, it seems easy to eat cheaply.

I'm interested to know what others think??????

Mrs_Arcanum

Find the opposite to be true. Pasta & rice can be used for so many more summer recipes than winter ones.

oldtractor

do you grow any food? herbs and lettuce are easy and can be done in a window box or pots. helps keep the bills down.

soupdragon10

Must admit I agree with OP. In winter I can take a huge range of soups for lunch to heat in a mug in microwave, sandwiches are much more problematic as fillings are so much more expensive. Also stews/casseroles etc are easy and very cheap, whereas a salad based meal is mega expensive to put together by comparison especially as my home grown stuff isn't near ready yet.

LollopyBear

oldtractor wrote: »

do you grow any food? herbs and lettuce are easy and can be done in a window box or pots. helps keep the bills down.

I second this. We have a tiny garden, but we grow salad in containers. It doesn't take long to grow and it is very cheap. We are never as hungry in the summer so we quite often have our version of a ploughman's meal using a range of the following:
- salad
- hard-boiled eggs
- beetroot (from big jar)
- tuna
- cheese
- ham
- corned beef
- pate

The contents change depending on how much cash we have and what we have in the fridge/cupboard.