Summer (mostly food) Bucket List
Get off your couch and live a little, won't ya?
Summer has a way of slipping through your fingers. You spend all of February dreaming about patios and picnics and grilling whole fish, and then suddenly it’s September, and the dog days of summer are long gone.
Enter: The Summer Bucket List.
Not to add stress to your life, actually, the opposite. When we keep novelty alive during our weeks, the days feel more exciting and less like a slog. A list just makes sure the good stuff actually happens instead of staying a daydream.
This is my Summer (mostly food) Bucket List for 2026. And what’s mine is yours — steal it, revise it, or let it inspire your own. Make it as wild or as simple as you want. If grilling a whole fish is a bridge too far, maybe this is the summer you try one bite of a fish someone else cooked. Baby steps. Still counts.
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MY Summer (mostly food) Bucket List for 2026
Bust out those (almost) new rollerblades—they make you feel like a kid again!
Grill a whole fish—I promise it’s not as scary as it seems.
Hike a hard mountain and bring snacks—hard is a subjective term.
Picnic in the park—easy but often overlooked when the summer wears on.
Evening ice cream session—no sun allowed!
Sleep outside—nap in a hammock definitely counts.
Eat a corndog—I look forward to these every concert season.
Cook food over a fire—s’mores definitely count.
Tapas Party—we have been over this.
Eat outside—at least one meal per day, coffee or cocktails are acceptable.
Buy a new cookbook—and actually cook from it! Mine is Le Sud.
Learn a new kitchen skill—learn how to cut an onion the right way.
Host a hotdog party—prep is simple, and guests can get creative with their toppings!
Eat, drink, and be merry on a rooftop—the view makes everything better.
Cook lamb chops—bonus points if it’s on the grill.
Drink a bitter beverage outside—bitter + hot afternoon = perfection.
Camping cheese platter—nothing says the great outdoors like a cheese platter.
Dip in an alpine lake—a swim in the Med would be preferred but 💁♀️.
Plan a trip for 2027—it will sneak right up on ya, and you will be glad you did.
Eat bread & the good butter as a meal—sometimes you just gotta live.
Be bad at something—try something new with zero expectations to be good.
Have dinner at 9 pm—just once, it won’t hurt you. Bring friends, make it a party!
There are 23 things on my list. I plan to do all of them. And if I don’t, I’ll still have done more than I would have staring at my phone and farting on the couch all August long, wondering where the summer went.
Now tell me yours.
Cheers,
Nicole | Butter Cult
