As the sun is starting to creep out from amongst the clouds, start preparing a picnic. Having a picnic during the Summer months can be entertaining and a blast for the entire family. It’s a great to get the family together whilst eating some delicious food and play fun games. It doesn’t take more than a picnic basket, a few food items from the cupboards and a football.

Location is paramount for a picnic:parks, riversides, hilltops, and beaches all provide glorious picnicking destinations. But no matter where you choose to have your picnic, even if it is just in your back garden, what you eat and drink is just as important. But what food do you choose? There are plenty of different foods and drinks you can take to a picnic but it is probably the best choice to go for something everyone will like such as the traditional British picnic foods of: sandwiches, pork pies, scotch eggs, sausage rolls and potato salad. You could even bring a disposable barbeque along to a picnic if you want. Here are some ideas for picnic foods that don’t require too much fuss:

• Blue Cheese Potatoes
• Cold Fried Chicken
• Pasta Salad
• Pitta Kebabs
• Fruit Salad
• Chicken Slaw (Chicken Coleslaw)
• Flapjacks

If you have kids, plan some competitive family games as entertainment. Sporting competitions can involve: rounders, cricket, football, dodgeball, tag , hide and seek , tug-of-war , sack racing, skipping races or water fights.