Enjoy a summer picnic
with summer picnic recipes

The sun is out
so let’s eat out!

I hope you’ll have fun strolling or scrolling through the site.

You might like to start at picnic food , which will lead you onto lots of summer picnic recipes. You’ll also find tips for eating in the sun when you plan your picnic menu.

Food tastes better in the open air and with congenial company – so if you make a mistake with a recipe, I can bet that it’s unlikely anyone will notice!

However, I think it’s worth a reminder that you should keep your picnic fare simple, but with robust flavours – and that people tend to have larger appetites outdoors.

Picnics are light-hearted, fun-packed affairs and can be as interesting to prepare as they are to eat.

So aim for something a little bit more imaginative and memorable than a cheese sandwich and enjoy the preparation as much as the picnic itself.

You have to think about picnic safety even more in the hot summer months and use your common sense too! Don’t take foods that will melt easily or spoil in the heat.

Use a cooler for lots of picnic drinks as well as food and keep them in the shade at the picnic site if possible. Be careful not to let anyone become dehydrated in the sun. Have plenty of water available and maybe some watermelon recipes or how about trying out some cold soup recipes?

Barbecue recipes, cooked as part of picnics, are immensely popular. Even our British Royal Family always enjoy a barbecue picnic during their annual summer holiday at Balmoral. It is said that the Duke of Edinburgh takes charge of the barbecue, while the Queen mixes the salad, her acknowledged speciality. I’m sorry I don’t have her recipe for you!

Make your summer picnic list and don’t forget essentials like sun protection cream, sunshades and insect repellent. If you have some talcum powder in the bathroom cabinet, take it along. Sprinkled around the edge of your picnic blanket, it will keep ants away.

So choose some summer picnic recipes and enjoy preparing them. Then grab an armful of cushions, a blanket or two and a big parasol (make this an umbrella if in the UK!) and enjoy an idyllic picnic under a big blue sky.

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