Picnic equipment
All the comforts of home
Thankfully, the design of picnic equipment has come on by leaps and bounds over the past few years, which means that, if you wish, you can have all the comforts of home at your picnic site. |
Rusty tin sandwich boxes, leaky old flasks and paper plates have turned into beautifully coloured picnic accessories and containers of all shapes and sizes. Plates, bowls, cups, glasses - unbreakable picnicware of every conceivable colour and design is available.
To me a picnic usually means sitting on a waterproof rug or blanket spread out on the grass. However, in some circumstances (sandy beach for example), a table and chairs
The table can be covered with a bright picnic table cloth and matching napkins, either in pretty fabric, throw-away paper or easily cleaned plastic coated material.
Yes, picnicware has improved over the last few years!
Picnic food should be easy to eat and cutlery isn’t always necessary. However, again there are lots of picnic knives, forks and spoons available to choose from in most picnic equipment collections.
Paper plates are convenient as they need no washing up but they do tend to bend when balanced on one's knees. Melamine ones are better and there are so many pretty patterns available nowadays that they're hard to resist!
There are also all manner of food containers available for keeping things hot or cold, crisp and fresh without letting them spill, crush or break. The Pyrex storage 18-piece set 
Wrapping materials are also needed of course and cling film or wrap is suitable for covering plated food. Silver foil is useful too - you can cover all sorts of items with it - even salt and pepper can be twisted in small pieces of it for lightweight transportation.
Wrap easily-bruised fruit, such as peaches, in soft kitchen paper before packing.
Flasks and containers with screw-on tops are best for liquids.
Individual lunch boxes are great for finger food and especially useful for childrens picnics. Kids love having their own surprise food box.
Picnics are now so popular that there is a vast array of transportation methods available too.
The traditional
wicker picnic basket
is useful and easy to carry with its suitcase-like shape. You can also find matching wicker baskets to carry bottles in.
You’ll need some insulated containers, known as coolers
If you’re going to be walking to your picnic destination, then a backpack may be a more useful way of transporting much of your picnic equipment. Again there's a large selection to choose from in the shops and on-line.Whether you have a large hamper or a small back-pack, try and organize supplies to save space and make the transportation easier. The picnicware should be light and not too bulky.
Plastic bottles are safer than glass but if you do have glass bottles, then wrap in cloths and/or carry in bottle carriers.
Then when you think you have everything covered, you might like to refer to my
picnic list
for other things to add to your picnic equipment, just in case you’ve missed something!
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