Hot Summer Day Food

The best sweet snack in hot weather like this is ripe fruit. Where I currently reside it is about 100° and in weather like this all you want to consume is something with ice in the name; ice cubes, ice cream, Icee, ice water, crushed ice flavored snowballs, etc. However, my mom had a trick for weather like this and consuming solid foods. When there was a week that had at least one really hot day she would go out and buy a ton of fruits. Majority of the fruits would be melons such as; watermelon, honey dew melon, cantaloupe because they contain a lot of juice. She would also buy apples, mangoes, and pomegranate. She would put them all in the fridge 2 days before the hot day and then on the day before, cut them all up into small cubes and put them in tuber ware to refrigerate overnight. The next day, the hot day, all day would eat all different combinations of fruit salad. The juices from the fruit kept us hydrated and cool while the fruit itself kept us fed and happy with very little effort. Not only was this a great snack but it’s certainly a healthier alternative to those other cool snacks I mentioned earlier like ice cream and snowballs. If you’re not necessarily a fan of some of the fruits my mom used you can always incorporate your own. Anything that produces a lot of juice is ideal but it can also be mixed with other fruits that don’t.