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When it's hot out, I crave really spicy food. When it's cold out, I crave really spicy food. :P

My eating habits don't change for the most part, so I eat the same types of dishes all year 'round in the same quantities. The habit may have not formed because I was raised in where there were no definitive change in seasons, just spring and summer all year long (bleah).

I eat chili, stews, soups, hotpots, and casseroles during the summer for breakfast, as well as leafy salads and fruits for dinner in the winter.

Every summer in my family for as long as I can remember, there comes a time where it just gets too damn hot to cook. I grew up on a farm so I'm pretty lucky in this respect, but we pretty much switch to corn and tomatoes every night for dinner from late July to mid-September. It's also just the easiest meal for us since we have an excess of these two things during that time. Sometimes there's a tuna or chicken salad, sometimes the tomatoes make it into some kind of salad, sometimes there's pesto and pasta salad, sometimes we barbecue, but generally, my stand-by summer meal is corn and tomatoes.

My summer cravings are very simple - I crave fresh berries, light soups, iced coffee, salads and grilled food. And this is pretty much what we eat once it gets really hot.

I enjoy summer cooking because it often makes me more creative - I crave the same kind of food every day, but not the same food. I love having fun with salads. Other than our usual Israeli and mixed greens salads (these two usually make appearance at our dinner table no matter what the weather is), I make brown rice, quinoa or whole wheat pasta/couscous salads (always incorporating plenty of fresh veg, herbs and often berries), all kinds of coleslaw and potato salads, etc (rarely with mayo as it's the last thing I want in my salad when it's hot) . I come up with different types of marinades or glazes for my grilled foods. I fancy all the colours and flavours of the summer cooking that I missed so much in autumn and winter. That said, having lived in places where the four seasons were cool summer, mild summer, hot summer and really hot summer, I do enjoy being able to experience other seasons (especially autumn) and different kinds of cooking that come with them.

spring cravings for me center on fresh strawberries and fresh asparagus! all summer I will eat enough "real" tomatoes to make me develop a rash from the acid content. I'm not a huge meat fan in general, but in the warmer months forget it, maybe a little in a cold pasta salad but thats about it. and skip the mayo in the potato salad for me, i use a light herbed vinegrette.

Lighter and seasonal. Lots of fruits and vegetables. I love berries in season, and avoid them off-season. During a heat wave I can live on fruit salad. Sometimes I top my fruit with yogurt (which I recently read is bad for digestion). Sometimes I top with honey, with flax seeds. I look forward to the opening of the farmer's markets.

My tastes change with the seasons. Right now the sun is out but it is still SO cold. I cannot wait for grilling and fresh vegetables, although we have a green salad of some sort every night. I am doing the brown rice, chicken thigh, and chorizo recipe out of the new Savuer tonight. We are trying to eat with the seasons, and what is fresh in our area. We are fortunate to have year round farmers markets to find all sorts of great stuff.

I make full use of all the wonderful fresh fruits and vegetables in the warmer months. I am perfectly happy just eating a couple of mangoes for dinner. This isn't so much dictated by weather as it is by availability. Like @cassaendra, I'm perfectly happy eating chili for breakfast in August, it's just that I now have all these other, fresher choices that are going to go away in a couple of months and so I binge. Huge salads, piles of fruit, mountains of corn on the cob. The produce in summer is a truly magnificent thing.