It's summertime! And do you know what I really love doing during this warm season? Packing my old and trusted picnic baskets with delicious outdoor foods grab an old sheet or blanket and head out for a relaxed summer picnic with friends, family or special someone.
Picnics or outdoor meals are always perfect times for family bonding and catching up with friends.
There is something about the simplicity of picnic that makes it a relaxed activity while being so much fun.
However, there are a lot of ways to ruin a very enjoyable picnic, and you can't always blame it on the weather.
There are, of course, other factors like poor and careless planning which may end up with uneaten food or smashed plates.
There are also other reasons like spending too much time assembling the food on site or ending with spoiled food that not only smells terrible but tastes doubly awful.
If you want to avoid all these 'accidents' and want to have the perfect picnic, then this is the article for you.
Packing Your Picnic This part of the picnic is very essential.
This can make or break your picnic that is why you should bring only the things that you need to bring and leave those that are simply 'trivial' for your picnic.
Here are the essential items that you need to bring: picnic baskets, or a cooler if you want to keep everything fresh; frozen bottles of water to refresh you during a hot weather which can be achieved if you put the bottled water in the freezer night before the picnic; table cloth or picnic blanket to be spread on the ground; outdoor dinnerware or paper plates, plastic utensils, napkins and trash bags; and hand sanitizers for clean hands before eating.
Simplicity is the Key Of course, this does not mean that you need to eat bread and butter alone.
You need to plan foods that are easy to prepare and serve because doing so will make a lot of things easier for you and that's a real big favor.
No one enjoys preparing a complicated meal outdoors.
You also need to plan the food that you will bring with your container in mind.
If you are bringing a cooler, then you can definitely go for more complicated foods but if you're bringing your picnic basket along, then you need foods that does not easily perish.
Opt for easy foods like peanut butter and jelly sandwiches, fruits, vegetables, cookies, crackers and so on.
Check out Picnic Recipes Online for Variety If you want easy to prepare picnic meals but are too tired to bring peanut butter sandwiches with you, then you might want to try out different recipes that you will find online.
If you are planning to bring dessert, you can prepare them before hand and you just have to open the container when you reach the picnic site.
Whatever food you decide for your picnic, make sure that they are edible enough to be eaten by every guest in your picnic.