Day out food ideas, please!

[NorthernDramaLlama]

DC and I are having a much anticipated day out tomorrow. We will be leaving the house at 8am and won't be back until at least 8pm. We'll have breakfast before we go and lunch at our destination. I'm stuck for ideas of what to take to eat! I want to take something and leave it in a cool bag in the boot so we can stop and eat it on the way home. Don't really want to spend motorway prices on food!
So far I have coffee in a hot drink bottle for me and bottles of squash for DC. Hard sweets for the journey. Any ideas, fabulous people?

Cheese and crackers? Bananas? Ham sandwiches?

Cold pasta with feta cheese, peppers and pesto etc?

Pork pie (either a big one that you slice before you go, on mini ones)

Thank you for your suggestions!

We're simple souls, so we usually take sandwiches (cheese salad for me, chicken salad for DH), some grapes, a yoghurt each - don't forget spoons! - and water in our chilli bottles.

If we're feeling flush though, we'll go to M&S. I'll get the wee feta and mint parcels, he'll get a couple of Scotch Eggs. Then crisps, something from the fresh bakery bit (white chocolate cookies if I get to choose) and we'll get some chewy sweeties too - Colin Caterpillars being the favourite here.

Have a lovely day OP, it's so nice to have something to plan for and to look forward to isn't it?

Scotch eggs are a must, surely?

Apples, bananas, flapjack, sandwiches, crisps, cake

I’d go for a bread based option for lunch then a carb based salad option for dinner or vice versa.
We often pick up a French stick enroute. Then pack a bread knife, butter, a couple of different cheeses (either pre slice or take knife). Some grapes, celery and a little pot of chutney.
Other wise just fill pittas, wraps or baguettes with what ever sandwich fillings we fancy.
Then cherry tomatoes, veg sticks, fruit, cake/ biscuit, crisps etc.

Then for the 2nd picnic a tuna pasta salad, fritata, roasted veg and feta cous cous salad etc and different accomplishments to those for lunch.

Super ideas, thanks! We have grapes and cereal bars for our morning stop. Crisps, choc muffins and carrot/cucumber sticks for an afternoon snack. And chicken pasta salad and yoghurt for picnic tea on the way home.
No scotch eggs, lol!

Sausage rolls.
Sandwiches
Crisps.
Fruit
Biscuits
Yoghurt
Pasta pot

Me id get a mad d or kfc as that's not normally that much more expensive at services

We will probably stop off at McDonald's on the home stretch but the route we are taking has limited places to eat and we would be arriving at them at the wrong time for food :-)