Any ideas for picnic food??

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Have a look at our Travel food thread which has some good ideas.

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Any ideas for picnic food??

Packed Lunch for work

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qwerty79

On Saturday we have a family outing to an air show. 4 adults. We are hoping for good weather. We are expecting to be out from 9am leaving at 6 pm. While there will be catering on site we want to avoid if we can.
Planned so far.

2 flasks hot choc
2 French stix filled with egg tomato and cheese mix other with tuna cucumber and lettuce.

homemade mini pies chicken curry, mince beef, cheese n mushroom. From freezer stuff.

Mini cheese tomato and pesto puffs.

Bought savoury eggs sausage rolls and cocktail sausages.
Bought coleslaw n potato salad.

hm baba ganouch and hummous with bread stix and carrot stix.

Hm choc muffins

Large bar milka
Pack value tortilla chips
Pack Rocky caramel bars
Olives
Pickle onion
Small wedge applewood cheese and mexicana cheese
Grapes

Cans coke n diet coke plus 12pk water.

Do you think this is enough and am I missing anything important.

scaredy_cat

sounds like plenty!

though 1 pickled onion is a bit mean....

squeakysue

Sounds like more than enough, I would freeze a few of the water bottles, will be nice and refreshing if it's warm.

Have a great time!

american_dream

my top tip for picnics when out at an event is not take anything you can't bin the wrapping of when finished with, if it is the air show I am going to on Sat then this Picnic should cover all weather issues:0) and just use carrier bags for transporting them and as bin bags as they empty

I use old bread bags as wrapping and freeze water to keep stuff cool, I also use squares cut out of old school polo shirts which I dampen with water for sticky hands after eating, and then bin.

If you knew the hard life my boys school polo shirts do then you too would thinks they need binning, they start white, become slowly grey with mystery stains on, they get bleached each term and get that bleach yellow tinge with the stains which won't come out, then I stick them in with what ever I am reviving with dye and become play shirts, so they have earned there keep.

I personally because I have small boys and 1 big one, don't take things like dips as they are a pain on a picnic, and instead of mini eggs/scotch eggs, I hard boil some eggs and make mini sausage meat balls as I became sick of one boy eating only the meat and the other the egg!! and being children they would not share 1 scotch egg oh no! too simple! this has only half sorted the issue as the egg eating one doesn't like yoke!
I have no idea what baba ganouch is but I imagine a dip! I lie I imagined a small baby sacrifice but then got serious.

Don't worry no chance in my passing by you and recognising you by what I have to say is a fantastic sounding picnic and asking for a sample, a My Uncle who is a air show nut has scouted the area and is local has over the past few years, located a good spot a short walk from his house

chirpychick

Hi.

Next Saturday I am going on a beach trip and as money is tight I thought i'd make as many cheap picnic foods as i could, to take with us and keep the outlay low.
In a few weeks we are holidaying from home (going to the zoo, long walks, things like that) so i thought if i made extra i could put them in the freezer for then too so that we didn't run the risk of buying anything when out.

There are not many restrictions - no nuts and id like most of it to be suitable for my 7 month old (he is a very good eater).

Could anyone give me any ideas or recipes for cheap foods?

Popperwell

I cannot help with a young child's menu sorry but I'm having my first picnic in perhaps 40 years. Being alone and using public transport I have to think simple so with a cool bag am thinking...fruit salad, salad or various rolls, a couple of small lagers, a flask of water for tea or coffee.

I think I can just about manage that...also depends if you have a warm meal in mind(and have the means to do it)or are thinking buffet type food.

Also whether to prepare it before going or when you get there...

I do hope that you enjoy your day...

meritaten

what about pigs in blankets? instead of pastry wrapping the sausages use slices of bread and wrap around the sausages buttered side out and bake until nice and golden brown (about twenty minutes in a medium oven). if you can make bread you can also use bread dough to do this!

Drachenfach

Wedges of tortilla (spanish potato omelette) make great picnic food and can be eaten with the hands. I like to throw lots of other veg in there as well to make it look pretty (at some point it stops being a tortilla and becomes a frittata but I'm not sure where!)

Mini muffins, sweet or savoury, freeze well and are easy to transport. You could also try making cornbread muffins for a different texture.

YORKSHIRELASS

My kids are older but they love things you can assemble yourself rather than sandwiches. I admit its a bit more of a faff but works well so I take things like crackers, slices of cheese, bits of ham, bread rolls or bagels, hm coronation chicken, cold sausages, a tub of soft cheese, slices of cucumber, grapes, strawberries, scones (sweet or savoury), fruit cake, muffins, hm biscuits etc.

All fairly standard picnic stuff but I think the trick is not making it too complicated. These kind of foods tend to be really expensive so its worth making as much as you can at home.