Do you believe in the concept of 'seasonal' foods?

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Well, to a certain extent - yeah. I mean, when it is 110 degrees outside, and I have my air conditioner running day and night, it does mean that I don’t necessarily wish to have my oven in the kitchen on for hours at a time.

However, when going to one of the local buffets here in Vegas, even in the dead of summer, I will often choose “Thanksgiving dinner” as an option (hot turkey, mashed potatoes, stuffing, gravy) when I can’t think of anything else to eat there.

I can eat a BLT any time of the year.
Ice cream tastes great in winter too!
My SO can eat soup year round…I am not much of a soup eater, but seasons make no difference.
The BBQ grill gets used year round - even my father, back in Illinois, would think nothing of going out to grill a steak on the BBQ in January, with two feet of snow all around.

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When the snow falls, there are two paths that are shoveled on the deck, and only two. One from the door to the steps for the dog, and one from the door to the grill for the husband. :smiley:

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I eat a lot of seasonal stuff, but I also have a good sized garden, so the seasonal stuff is easy to get.

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Sort of, but not really. When you live in a climate that barely has winter, if at all, and it seems like all summer, all the time, you’d never have chili or potato-leek soup if you stuck to “seasonal” foods. So I make those things when I crave them. In the blazing hot dead of summer, I’m much more inclined to just have a cold salad for dinner, but in the very mild, hardly even cold winter, I’ll still eat much more soup than I do in the summer time. That said, every season is a good time for soup! So I base the decision on what my belly wants, not on what the calendar says.

I learned this adaptation when I lived in South Florida and experienced an 85-degree Christmas. The first time, that was really weird, to sit in front of a video of a fire (a real fire would have been intolerable) and eat Christmas dinner in shorts and tanks. Then, after waiting the appropriate hour, we went swimming. I have laid out on the beach on Christmas day. If I lived in Australia, that would be no big deal.

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I eat ice cream all year round. (Hey, it doesn’t melt outside in winter. :slight_smile: )

I can only get certain foods in certain seasons. So things like my favourite apples, only available in fall, are the only things I’d consider seasonal foods. And things like chocolate eggs that are only available at Easter.

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Only if it’s something you just can’t get out of season.

The idea that you can’t have chili in summer is almost as stupid as the idea that chili should have beans in it.

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Beans are delicious in it.

I do tend to eat more “wintery” foods in winter and “summery” foods in summer. I expect most people try to eat more healthily in the summer anyway.

But when it comes to chilli in the summer, the way I see it, Mexicans don’t wait for the snow to come, do they? :smiley:

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In honor of this thread, and with the thermometer sitting at just over 100F outside, I’m making chili tonight. (Without beans. Don’t much care for beans, in chili or otherwise.)