| What would you pack for a perfect picnic?
I would start with sandwiches as an obvious choice, but you can go the good old ham and salad, or go more up-market with lobster or salmon.
A trick for salad I learnt from some cooking show is to keep tomato seperate until you're ready to serves it or it makes everything soggy. And if you put all your other salad items in a big plastic bag, you can just swing the bag around your head a bit to toss the salad.
For salad dressing: get glad wrap (cling film?) and layer it a few times, put it in a cup so it comes over the edges and pour your salad dressing in, twist and tie the top up so you have a bubble of dressing and when you get to your picnic spot, pop the bubble inside you plastic bag full of salad, swing it around your head again and "hey presto" you have a dressed AND tossed salad.
Any cold meat is good for picnic, especially small crumbed pieces of chicken or lamb. Good as a finger food.
Drinks: Those little juices (we call them prota-packs) with the plastic straw on the side that you stick in the foil hole in the top of the carton are great for picnics.
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