I always look forward to the summer months when it is perfect weather (if your lucky) to take a basket of food with a good bunch of friends and sit outside. You can enjoy the sunshine, fresh air, wildlife and also all of those treat finger foods that you might not normally eat. This week is National Picnic Week run by ‘Pom-bear’ so look out for tips, recipes and suggestions for your perfect picnic. They are also running a twitter competition with a signed copy of “love your lunchbox” up for grabs. All you need to do is tweet using the hashtag #picnicweek
There are a wide variation of the type of picnic you might attend, such as a kid friendly picnics involving games and usually situated near a play park, or how about a student style picnic with plenty of cider and some thrown together sandwiches? My favourite is the posh day out picnic where the basket is full of delicious little jars of pickles, olive breads and a bottle of fizz.
All of them are great fun and usually include the wasp avoidance hand wave dances, spilled drinks, cloud watching, laughter, messy faces and the last minute dash to clear everything up under an umbrella before the typical English weather descends.
Perfect Picnic food can be eaten cold or room temperature and eaten with your hands or easily with a plastic fork. It shouldn’t need any (or minimum) preparation once you have left the house, it can be transported easily in a basket or bag and once eaten its packaging should ideally be easily disposed of or light to carry back home.
Here are my top picks from Veghotpot for perfect picnic food:
What are your favourite picnic foods? Do you have a favourite picnic spot you always return too?
All these recipes seem perfect for a picnic!! Thank you for sharing!
Thanks 🙂 Glasd you like the assortment I chose, there are so may options for picnics!
Yummo! I tell you what, you bring the picnic food and I will bring the blanket OK? 😉
Sounds like a deal!!! 🙂
If this is the type of food you have on your picnic, then I want to be invited, I love the look of the pasties, just my cup of tea.
Thanks!! I do love a good pastie, infact I have one for lunch today! 🙂