After autumn, it is the season of wheat harvest. In dog days, the metabolism of the human body will be accelerated, the body will sweat a lot, a large number of protein amino acids will be lost, and a large number of B vitamins and minerals such as potassium and sodium will also be lost, so the demand for energy will increase. Pasta represented by jiaozi, noodles and pancakes contains sugar, B vitamins and various minerals, which can provide enough calories for human body.

Jiaozi on the head: Eating jiaozi on the head is not only appetizing, but also because jiaozi looks like an ingot, and "Fu" and "Fu" are homophonic, so jiaozi on the head is called "Yuanbao", which is people's yearning for a better life. Almost all kinds of vegetables and meat can be stuffed into jiaozi.

Zhongfu noodles: noodles are usually eaten at this time in northern China. This season is the time to harvest new wheat. New wheat is ground into flour to make hot noodle soup. A bowl often makes you sweat. You can also eat cold noodles with water. After the noodles are out of the pot, cook them in cold water several times.

Pancakes in Sanfuli: Pancakes are common food in the north. They chose to eat pancakes and eggs in Sanfu because the weather turned cold after beginning of autumn, and it was easy to sweat and catch a cold after eating hot noodle soup. Besides, eggs and cakes are round, which means that the whole summer will be complete. In addition to the nutrition in noodles, egg pancakes can also meet the standards of diversified diet and balanced nutrition.

Step 2 eat mutton

The best thing about mutton is to get rid of dampness. You have to eat mutton in dog days. As the saying goes, "a bowl of soup for a sheep needs no prescription", which is enough to show the effectiveness of mutton in summer. Especially in some areas of Jiangsu and Shanghai, people like to eat sheep in dog days. Xuzhou people specially set up the "Lying Sheep Festival" to eat sheep in summer.

Eating mutton is particular: sheep is hot and should be eaten in winter, such as hot pot; Goat mutton is warm and can be eaten in summer, such as stewed mutton. Mutton in Jiangsu and Zhejiang is mainly goat mutton.

Carrots can be added to mutton to remove the fishy smell and supplement vitamins to make the soup sweeter; Rice wine can also be added. Rice wine also helps to cool and tonify deficiency, quench thirst and relieve summer heat, and sesame oil and walnuts can also be added to remove fishy smell.

Step 3 eat chicken

The dog days in the south are basically inseparable from eating chicken, and the summer climate in the south is hot and humid. The ancients believed that the rooster had the function of eliminating dampness, which formed the folk custom of eating chicken in midsummer, among which the first rooster was the most solemn.

Hangzhou has "ham first, chicken later"; Hunan is adjacent to Jiangxi, and the first place is to eat chicken.

Many people like to cook soup with chicken. Guangdong people who love health put a whole chicken in a pig's belly, then put it in cold water and cook it with Lycium barbarum, Polygonatum odoratum and Codonopsis pilosula. Coconut chicken soup is the best of many chicken soups, especially popular in Guangdong.