Who doesn't love a good picnic! These 11 picnic food ideas are perfectly portable - to make your picnic feel really special!
To be perfectly honest, I love a tasty sandwich as part of my picnic basket! But sometimes a special picnic calls for something a little bit different.
These are some of my favourite portable recipes:
Cornish Pasties
Pasta Salad with Italian Dressing
Grana Padano and Egg Stuffed Muffins With Prosciutto di San Daniele.
Easy Creamy Potato Salad
Vegetarian Sausage Rolls That Meat-Eaters Love Too!
Cheese and Tomato Tarts Recipe
Homemade Coleslaw
Chorizo Scotch Eggs Recipe
Tear and Share Sausage Rolls
Portable Apple Crumble Jars
Individual Berry No Bake Cheesecakes
That's my top 11 picnic food ideas! I Also need to do a special callout to my Easy Sausage Roll Recipe < it didn't quite make the top 11 but its a family favourite and alsoways on the list. Do you have any picnic favourites?
What if I want a sandwich recipe?
Try my French Pressed Sandwich Bites!
Do I need to bring cutlery on a picnic?
Only for the dessert recipes!
Can I make these recipes ahead?
Yes, all of these recipes can be made ahead.
This post was first written in July 2017. Updated in Aug 2020 with new recipe ideas.
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Anne Grey says
Absolutely lovely ideas...I can turn all the recipes into vegetarian ones apart from the chicken, which would end up as fish.
Floranet says
Worth Appreciating. Great work.
2pots2cook says
Pinned the beauties to "popular" but to !for my office lunch" also 🙂 Amazing !
All That I'm Eating says
A great set of picnic ideas! I love the sound of those doughnuts and those sausage rolls look amazing!