My sister has this thing she does with her family on a rather regular basis that involves a dinner of popcorn. Yeah, that’s it, just popcorn. We do a similar dinner occasionally with popcorn and smoothies. And we make some of the best smoothies on the planet, since my parents got us a VitaMix many years ago. Oster and crowd can’t touch the VitaMix (though this guy may be able to). Our basic smoothies consist of a banana, an apple, an orange, some frozen fruit, a few scoops of plain or vanilla yogurt, and some ice. That’s it!

During the summers this is a great dinner, since the popcorn is light and the smoothies are cold and refreshing. But we have a rather significant problem, which was evidenced tonight in all its glory. We snack while we make the smoothies. So dinner tonight was not really just smoothies and popcorn. There were some fresh snap peas with ranch dressing. And some tortilla chips with ranch dressing. And a little of this and a little of that.

So this relatively healthy dinner turns into something worse than Beer Barrel Burger and a side of pork rinds.

But it sure is fun!