Picnic.

Bob

Bob

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There’s a debate going on in our house about what constitutes a great picnic.

Hubby is in the camp of finger food only and it’s doesn’t count if you need a fork. On the other hand I have been accused of going slightly overboard with tubs of potato salad and real glasses for the Pimms.

Do any of you lovely people have any tried and tested picnic staples, slightly more exciting than a ham sandwich and a bag of salt and vinegar but that can be eaten without cutlery and prepared the day before.
 
Bob

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I should have mentioned, hubby and eldest daughter are vegetarian, which means that me and the youngest are 95% vegetarian too.

Just to over complicate the issue, it’s not even as exciting as a ham sandwich, it’s a Quorn ham sandwich. :facepalm:
 
pinky

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Falafel, cocktail sausages (quorn do some too), hummus with carrot sticks, quorn crispy chicken nuggets. Strawberries and clotted cream to dip in. Grapes, I make mini quiche in muffin tins too. I'm with you on the pimms though!
 
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Mudgie

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Bob said:
There’s a debate going on in our house about what constitutes a great picnic.

Hubby is in the camp of finger food only and it’s doesn’t count if you need a fork. On the other hand I have been accused of going slightly overboard with tubs of potato salad and real glasses for the Pimms.

Do any of you lovely people have any tried and tested picnic staples, slightly more exciting than a ham sandwich and a bag of salt and vinegar but that can be eaten without cutlery and prepared the day before.
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Rather than try and find a picnic table you could use a table in a pub's beer garden.
And rather than going to all the trouble of deciding what food to prepare you could choose something from the pub's menu.
 
lochdhu

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We love a picnic, even in our garden. We have a picnic rucksack which is ace as its light weight. Food, Linda McCartney sausages rolls, boiled eggs, carrot & hummus, cheese and crackers or cheese and french bloomer bread. Something sweet cake wise for him, salted crisps, Fizzy :love:
 
Mudgie

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lochdhu said:
We love a picnic, even in our garden. We have a picnic rucksack which is ace as its light weight. Food, Linda McCartney sausages rolls, boiled eggs, carrot & hummus, cheese and crackers or cheese and french bloomer bread. Something sweet cake wise for him, salted crisps, Fizzy :love:
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At least that's not anti social like those living a few houses away who have barbecues that make me think I'm living near the pet crematorium ten miles away.
 
Bob

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Mudgie said:
Rather than try and find a picnic table you could use a table in a pub's beer garden.
And rather than going to all the trouble of deciding what food to prepare you could choose something from the pub's menu.
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I’m not in a hurry to rush to a pub to be honest, I’m in even less of a hurry to rush to a pub with my 8 and 12 year old daughters.

Hoping to get to a beach soon with a nice picnic, I’m just after some inspiration and making conversation.
 
That-Crazy-Rat-Lady

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You've inspired me to have a picnic @Bob !!

If we're going for a walk it's usually a fair few miles so boring sandwiches for fuel is the first choice!

However we do sometimes have 'car picnics' if we go past a M&S - they do lovely pots with sun-dried tomatoes and mozzarella balls (easy to recreate and probs cheaper!) Plus bread sticks with butter and hummus!

As a veggie myself I'd go down the cheese-fest route!
 
Gramaisc

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That-Crazy-Rat-Lady said:
You've inspired me to have a picnic @Bob !!
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And me - a couple of sweet chili chicken wraps from the Lidl run last night, plus a generic Twix substitute and a bottle of water that had been chilled in the freezer before setting out.

Eaten about eight miles into a twenty mile bike trip - lounging in a carefully sculpted hole in a pile of spare gravel in a deserted car park.
 
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Me too. Strangely I’ve never bought fags since I’ve been legally able.
I’m the only one of my siblings that has never smoked (apart from the trials as a kid) if I had smoked then seeing my Dad die a slow,painful death of lung & throat cancer in his late 50”s would have been enough yet my brother & sister still smoke. I don’t know how people afford to spend £60 or £70 a week on fags.
 
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EasMid said:
Me too. Strangely I’ve never bought fags since I’ve been legally able.
I’m the only one of my siblings that has never smoked (apart from the trials as a kid) if I had smoked then seeing my Dad die a slow,painful death of lung & throat cancer in his late 50”s would have been enough yet my brother & sister still smoke. I don’t know how people afford to spend £60 or £70 a week on fags.
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Same here, Dad suffered from Bronchitus continually, and had emphysema, probably COPD if i'm honest, but was never diagnosed with it. We'd come home from school, never knowing if he'd be home or had been rushed into the SGI.
Both sisters either side of me smoke, 1 like a chimney, always saying she has no money. My youngest smokes roll ups, but is courteous enough not to do it around me. Yet I'm the one in the family that suffers terribly when she gets a chest infection!
Never seen the point myself, you smell - breath/clothes/skin. Spend a fortune for it go up in smoke, and these days are a pariah everywhere you go.
 
BobClay

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That reminds me of my Old Man who also developed Bronchitis in his 20's. He was a smoker, (most of that generation were) and he went to our GP on the Wolverhampton Road. Our dour but good Scottish doctor checked him over and said: "If you don't pack up smoking, don't bother coming back to me."

My Old Man packed it in right there and then, throwing an unsmoked packet into the fire when he got home. He had permanent lung damage, but it didn't progress much after that.
 
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