Ways to Prepare Summer Foods
If you’re short on energy, use these tips to prepare your favorite seasonal fare.
1. Make a Smoothie
If you’re experiencing nausea, appetite loss, or mouth sores, try drinking your foods instead of eating them. A smoothie — made with foods such as Greek yogurt, bananas, nut butter, and grated ginger (to help quell nausea), for example — may go down easier and be more tolerable than solid foods would.
2. Eat Food Cold
“Colder foods can be really helpful for people if they’re experiencing nausea,” says Cavalier, who recommends eating chicken, beans, and chickpeas in cold pasta-salad form.
3. Cook Your Food in a Slow Cooker
Using a Crock-Pot seems more appropriate for winter, but it’s a quick and easy way to make summertime meals, too. Foods soften up in the slow cooker, making them easier to chew when your mouth is sore, says Ferreira.
4. Skip Grilled Meats (at Least Occasionally)
One cooking technique you may want to rethink? Grilling meat. When beef, pork, poultry, and fish are grilled at high temperatures, they produce compounds that, according to animal research, may increase the risk of cancer.
You don’t have to give up grilling, but consider adding more grilled produce to your plate. Think: corn on the cob, zucchini, and tomatoes, for example. You can also marinate meat, which can help protect it from charring, says Roop, and then wrapping it in tinfoil to prevent further smoke exposure.
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