To ask what goes in your beach day picnic?

We buy sarnies, crisps, fruit and drink on the way. Making a picnic for us all makes my head explode, so this works quite well for us.

My kind of picnic😂

I go via Tesco and buy a meal deal each, no soggy sandwiches wrapped in cling film. Make sure you take wet wipes and hand sanitizer.

I've been pondering the same today.

I remember when I was little, my mum would cook chicken drumsticks and then wrap them up to keep warm. She'd take a pot of rice and salad and proper plates and cutlery!! It was lovely she was an excellent cook but I could never understand why we could just have sandwiches at the beach especially after one windy day when our lettuce was blowing away! 🤣

And mini sausage rolls. Delicious ones like Higgidy.

If you're brave about the seagulls- baguette ,butter, cheese, deli meat, hummous, olives, crudités etc.

If they're fuckers where you are a quick sandwich in the car for safety.

The seagulls on our nearest beach recognise a Tesco bag now and will circle and circle until food comes out...

Favourite sandwiches (in rolls), crisps, mini cake bars, strawberries, water, a flask of coffee.

When my children were young a picnic for a day out was definitely a treat. Usually a piece of brown sugar and mustard gammon or a chicken to go in rolls or baguettes, salad, crisps, homemade scotch eggs and a cake. Like a PP Delia’s lemon iced preserved ginger cake or a Bakewell slice.

Last time I went to the beach with my now adult children they had been out to buy fresh fish for supper and having demolished the oysters and turbot we made a pile of crab sandwiches the next day to take to the beach.

Cash to buy chips, donuts and vodka slushes 😅

Cheese and chive flapjacks
Pasta salads in individual pots (I normally use a tomato based sauce)
Chicken drumsticks
Beetroot and apple coleslaw
Picnic loaf (take the full loaf stuffed with whatever you fancy and slice it while there)
Crisps
Fruit
I like watermelon and feta salad too.

We normally take frozen bottled water - it keeps my wine cool 😂

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Today I stood with my egg sandwich and was ATTACKED by a sea gull. Never have I seen the likes. It swooped into a group of twenty of us and TOOK it and bit my finger. It then came and took all the kids sandwiches. It left the crisps, fruit, cake and jam sandwich.

Second this! We’ve started doing this for picnics - always goes down well

I don't think a picnic is necessarily supposed to be a treat, or it certainly wasn't when I was a child. The day at the beach is the treat, the picnic is just a means of not staving or spending a fortune while you're there.

My day out picnic is generally very similar to a school packed lunch.

I'm sure they can get all that at home. Picnics are supposed to be a treat, so treat food is entirely appropriate.

I'd find a grassy spot by the car and eat there. Sand in your picnic is not nice and it saves having to carry everything.

My mum is a cub leader for 40 yrs her picnic party piece is piping hot hotdogs in a flask. Buns and sauce. It always goes down well especially with some seaside chips 😋

Absolutely nothing except kitchen roll, salt and vinegar and then we eat fish and chips on the beach sat in camping chairs. In my opinion it's criminal not to eat fish and chips at the beach. However, if you prefer a picnic and it's a warm day, yes I would freeze the drinks and use them to keep the picnic cold.

Meal deals from tesco today 🤣

I do a bag of food each so you can just hand it out and not have to keep opening the cool bag and letting all the sand in! All bags go together in one big cool bag with a few little ice pack things. What are they called ??! Not too many cos they're heavy.

Each person gets:
Sandwich - size and flavour of choice
Crisps - as above
Something sweet (Kipplings apple pie or kit kat ect)
A drink.

I will often have a pack of mini sausage rolls or something to open and offer round too.

Take a rubbish bag to tie onto one of your camping chairs. Everyone can bung their rubbish in it as they go to stop it all blowing up the beach. They you can just tie the bag up and stick it in a bin or take it home without the cool bag getting all yucky.

I take a pack of wet wipes.

We also take a flask of hot water and some tea bags and milk and travel mugs for adults to have a cupper

I despise beach picnics. I’m a total beach-grinch. Sandy food is not fun. Sand isn’t fun. Sea water making my legs sting and itch isn’t fun.

But I go, and a grin and bear it for the kids. They need snacks so I usually pack a squeezy jelly, soreen bars, ham/cheese wraps and chopped fruit.

@Omlettes it is a rare treat visit to the beach so I think they can eat what they want. But add in strawberries and cut cucumber if you like!

Take a portable bbq and do sausages in finger rolls, lots of ketchup. Crisps. Slices of melon/watermelon/apple and some chocolate. Ice cream from a kiosk.

I hate food getting limp and warm so our picnics are now always hotdogs in a flask! So easy, add some crisps and fruit, and get an ice cream while you're there.
If we're heading to the beach though it has to be fish and chips.