When you hit the road for a day out with your girlfriends and you're thinking about dining options, consider a picnic -- it's usually better, cheaper, and prettier than other roadside options. True we use a canvas bag instead of a picnic basket, but our set-up is still pretty enough to make lunch with the girls feel special and easy enough to throw together in the morning before heading to that antiques fair.
We've used mostly disposables for this picnic (see our Father's Day picnic for reusable packaging) because there's nothing more, um, aromatic than returning to a car full of leftovers after a day in the sun. That's a treasure that's better left behind.
For ideas about what kind of food to pack, browse our picnic, sandwich, and salad recipes.
Girls' Day Out Picnic
0****Courtney Russell*|*When you hit the road for a day out with your girlfriends, consider a picnic -- it's usually better, cheaper, and prettier than other roadside options.
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picnic perfect
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What's Old Is New
Add instant style with a vintage tablecloth. To keep your cloth from looking like you slept on it, fold it a few times in one direction and roll it around an empty paper towel tube, then tie it with kitchen twine in two places.
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Belt it Out
Trim your carryout containers with a sash of fabric. Ours measures 5 by 36 inches and are tied once, loosely (raspberry gingham from HouseFabric, $8.95 a yard).
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By Definition
Roll up your flatware in napkins, then bind it with a band of paper secured with pretty Japanese masking tape. We used a page from a vintage dictionary wrapped in bright red tape for contrast. (HappyTape masking tape, $5)
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Hard Scrabble
Spark conversation with a mason jar filled with Scrabble tiles. Place marking, list making, poetry writing, impromptu word games -- all are advised.
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Cheaper by the Dozen
Fill an empty egg carton with assorted flowers for a spontaneous and short-lived centerpiece.
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Simply perfect! I had picnics on the brain today, and now you have whet my appetitie to put together a pretty picnic of my own. Thanks for the inspiration!
This really inspires to take my granddaughters and their babies to the local park for a picnic next wednesday (our visiting day at my house) Use damp handi wipes for napkins. Place them in baggies. Makes cleaning hands a "picnic" I have a vintage picnic basket packed with the aluminum colored plates and tumblers from years ago. And a wateermelon tablecloth. Just add food!!!!!
Bacon spaghetti looks so good. I am going to make it today
For the past 25 years I have carried a "fully loaded" old fashion picnic basket in my Jeep.The basket was a gift from a dear friend, many moons ago. I have accumulated vintage paper plates and cups,metal dinnerware(kept in a mason jar to be taken home and "recycled"),a vase,a gorgeous plastic lined ground cover to sit upon.In an antique tin, I stashed every thing under the sun one may need..matches, candles, safety pins, tacks,a small ball of twine, bug spray,a tiny bag of plastic ants(no real picnic is a picnic til the ants show up),sticky notes,small trash bags,cork screw,sharp knife,anything you can think of you may need in a pinch.All this fit nicely under the pie tray. The food portion is either thought out or just grabbed on the run from local product stand,deli's, or a bakery.
My friends and children laugh at me , but I Am Always Ready To Picnic and they LOVE IT.I have given them and myself so so many Impromptu Picnic memories we can not ever start to count them. I guess the moral of this tale, is always be prepared to PICNIC!