We spent the weekend playing push off the raft at the camp. So glad it’s warm enough now to really start doing summer stuff.

Except a weekend in the water meant coming home to an empty refrigerator and mountains of laundry.

The laundry will just have to fend for itself for a while. Parker’s lunch, however, demanded attention.

All I really had going for me was a few hunks of steak left over from the grill this weekend. And I’ve been dumping lots of mounds of meat in Parker’s lunch lately. Seemed I should be a little more creative.

So today I did kebabs. Admittedly, this one is all about the novelty. Instead of dumping a bunch of steak in a container, I threaded it onto bamboo skewers. Great for dunking with barbecue sauce, though.

If I’d had more food in the house, I also would have alternated other ingredients with the steak. Maybe some cucumber or toasted bread or cherry tomatoes or mini bell peppers. Anything would be cool. I did have a couple cheese curds, so I threaded a couple of those on.

One tip — I made sure to use kitchen scissors to snip off the sharp tips of the skewers. I trust Parker not to stab his friends. Not so sure about some of his buddies.

For the rest of today’s lunch… I went with a yogurt and the rest of his breakfast smoothie. The smoothie was made from frozen mango, a banana, a blop of fat-free sour cream, some milk and a pinch of salt. Really delicious.

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