What's in your "family day out" bag .

BEAT_THE_DEBT

Just thinking with the nice weather around the corner what do you pack in the day out bag. Mine is.
Change of clothes.
sun cream
plasters
change for parking and ice cream
bag for rubbish
bag for wet clothes.
Picnic
wet wipes
book
sunglasses
towel.


Anyone add to this would be great to see idea's.

GwylimT

Tissues
Flannel in waterproof bag
Spare nappy in a waterproof bag to put a dirty nappy in
Epi-pen
Glucose tablets
Glucose meter and strips x2
Crayons
Paper/small plain paper book
Phone
Suncream
Lipbalm
Hand gel
Bib/spare top for the worlds messiest eater
Whatever food we will be eating that day

Doveling

Spare undies and toothbrushes just in case it's so marvellous we decide to stay the night!

THIRZAH

Our children are grown up now but we still have a picnic basket which we put in the car for days out . We also take it if we are spending the night in a Travel Lodge type of hotel in case we decide to have a picnic style dinner or breakfast in the room.

These days it contains-mugs, plates, napkins, glasses, a corkscrew, plastic cutlery, a sharp knife and chopping board also sachets of sugar, coffee, salt , klippits, plastic bags and wet-wipes.

BEAT_THE_DEBT

I am loving the answers thanks

Feral_Moon

Phone, credit card, emergency £10, water bottle, poo bags, ball, tissues

BEAT_THE_DEBT

Emergency £10 I like it.

Slinky

I always keep an emergency £10 in my car in case I run out of fuel somewhere and there's a problem with cards.

BEAT_THE_DEBT

I am putting £10 in an envelope in mine and hubs car today

MMF007

Oh I love having a picnic bag. There's only 2 of us, both adults (well we claim to be!), so we don't need kid or pet related extras.
essentials are;
A large flask of boiling water to make any drinks / cup a soup we choose
coffee/tea/milk powder/cup a soup
emergency biscuits, individualy wrapped
serated knife
2 melamine plates
2 spoons
2 forks
mini jam portion
a couple of sachets of tomato and brown sauce, salt & pepper (you never know when the opportunity of a tasty pie or something more healthy, might arise)
a clean sandwich bag for a million and one possible purposes
[STRIKE]two napkins[/STRIKE] two squares of kitchen roll
and then whatever food we choose to take that day.

As the above poster mentioned this bag is also very handy for a nice picnic tea if staying at a hotel. We have taken all sorts of lovely picnics for our own room service, most memorably when I took DH for a surprise birthday weekend. I bought his favourite but more expensive treat foods. We had a lovely seafood platter, posh bread, a salad with lots of ingredients and his favourite vegetable crisps, and 2 lovely individual dessert pots AND crackers and cheese.. And of course some chilled wine!
It cost quite a lot but nowhere near as much as buying even one dinner at the hotel that night. As you can tell I really enjoyed thinking of which things he would love and sorting it all out so it kept cool while we travelled, and could be presented nicely when I did the big reveal (I am still talking about the food :rotfl:).

M

jemb

We've a messy two year old so we have;
Wipes
change of clothes
3 nappies
drink for small person
change for parking
sun tan lotion
poo bags for the dog
(picnic is separate)
snack for two year old
hat for two year old (sensing a pattern here!)
hat for husband (very fair)
socks (in case we go to play gym and I never wear them!)
sunglasses
depends on where we're going a blanket or towel (plus for the dog a towel!)
phone
colouring book and crayons

Yes I do have Mary Poppins' bag!