Any ideas for picnic food??

rsdiscos

Hi I just cut normal potatoes into chunks and boil till cooked then i add a soften( sweated) onion, with a teaspoon of dried herbs added to dehydrate them a bit and a couple of spoons of mayonnaise (extra light works just a well). I mix it together while warm and it is delish, cheap and very moresh!

Pink.

Hi quintwins,

These threads have loads of ideas that should help:

Any ideas for picnic food??

Autumn / winter Picnic

pasta salad

Where's the Simple Potato Salad Recipe?

I'll add your thread to the first link later to keep the suggestions together.

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mandco

yesterday we ended up having and unexpected day out with picnic lunch which was lovely but meant as we didnt have anything planned we stopped off and brought the lunch stuff and it cost a small fortune. we had a few cartons of juice left which i popped in the freezer and it got me thinking about making up a freezer picnic stuff that we can just take out and go which the would be hopefully defrosted and lovely and cool by lunchtime.

so looking for some ideas for some tasty treats that are freezable and would be safe to just defrost while out and about and eat.
thanks

kittycat204

some yoghurts I think are ok, you could make some pate, chicken liver or smoked salmon etc, those are the 2 that spring to mind at the moment. I'll keep thinking and edit.

you can freeze cookie dough and cook from frozen. would take about 10 mins. can be cooking while you prepare the rest of the picnic.

bread and meats can be frozen. so sandwiches wouldn't take long to throw together. (if you eat meat)

Vlm1986

I've never tried, but I hear some people freeze sandwiches weekly for lunches? . How about a crusty baguette cut up, hopefully you'll have butter and cheese in the fridge for every day use. Or you could freeze some cheese in small slices.

Spendless

Are you wanting to buy or make? Some picnic items can be frozen eg the cocktail sausages. They have the freezer sign on the packet. I buy items that can be frozen for when my kids have packed lunches at school. I used to make and freeze fairy cakes when my son was little. Cheese can be frozen, but eggs tend to go rubbery and avoid things with a high water content like salad. You could also look amongst the 'party food' in the freezer section of supermarkets to either buy or give you ideas.

LameWolf

Fresh fruit. I get things like raspberries and cherries and freeze them for use in winter, so they could easily be frozen in helping-sized pots (stone the cherries first, of course). If you can open-freeze them before packing into their pots, they retain their shape nicely. Cherries are delicious just on their own!

button_box

At harvest time my husband seems to live off picnic style food because if the weather is good he will not stop for a "proper meal". I am always trying to think of things that he can eat, on the move, that will be reasonably nutritious and mean that he is not living on sandwiches. I make a quiche and freeze it in slices. Because quiches can "weep" a bit on defrosting I make the egg custard mix with approx 4 eggs, a tub of soft cheese from Mr L's german food emporium and milk to make up to a pint and whisk into this approx 2 teasp. cornflour. This goes into a baked blind pastry case with whatever filling I am going to use grated cheese/ cooked onion/ chopped spring onion/ bits of cooked meat etc. I aslo cook and freeze small sausages.
Mr. L also sells some frozen baguette style rolls which I always have in the freezer for emergencies. You bung them in the oven, turn the oven on for 8 minutes at 180c and they are ready to go. White or wheat and rye. I also make fruit loaves, slice them and freeze them either with the plastic liner from the cereal packets between the slices or "easyleave sheets". I do the same for a tray bake apple pie. I make fairy cakes with added rasps or chopped up strawberries. For sweet treat I also freeze slices of rocky road and choc tiffen etc. The choc sweats a bit when it is defrosted but who cares. Most things will defrost quite quickly if they are not frozen in huge pieces.I have made sandwiches ( finely grated cheese and ham) and frozen them ok. I sometimes make a batch of them to have in the freezer to defrost for toasties But obviously you are not taking a sandwich toaster with you!! Dips are good to make from store cupboard stuff and maybe you could keep carrots for carrotsticks/ breadsticks/savoury biscuits etc. in stock. My dips tend to be mayo and natural yogurt based with added chutney/crushed garlic/chopped spring onion/ chopped herbs/ tomato sauce/ tabasco, whatever is to hand. Sorry for rambling on a bit. Hope some of this helps.

Fruball

What a great idea - whenever I think of doing a picnic, I have nothing in and end up doing what you did and spending loads on goodies from the supermarket on the way!

Omelette/Frittata/Tortilla can be frozen and would defrost nicely by lunch.

Pasta freezes - you could add some tuna and mayonnaise (ready mixed in a plastic tub) when you get to your destination.

Cooked sausages, mini quiches.

Sandwiches freeze as do wraps.

Fairy cakes freeze.

Linda32

I think I must be boring / [STRIKE]a tight git[/STRIKE] as when we have picnics we just take what we would normally have for dinner any - A sandwich and cherry tomatoes and maybe fruit or cake.