....or was this an unusually frugal picnic?

[GeraldineAubergine]

last week my dp invited his friend over with his new girlfriend (she's 20 he's 49,unnecessary but I felt I had to add it) and his daughter who was visiting for a week. I bought beer, coke, snacks and we ordered takeaway pizzas as it was a treat for his dd's holiday. All was lovely. Anyhow to say thanks he invited us (dp, ds and myself for a picnic yesterday. I didn't eat thinking il fill up on delicious picnic food.
The picnic consisted of ( for 4 adults and 2 kids): 2 cheese sandwiches cut into 4, 1 small prepack salad, a pear and an apple plus 3 low fat yoghurts. There was a carton of oj too. And six packets of hula hoops which I'm glad I brought :). It was a bit awkward. Am I being unrealistic was this a reasonable picnic? Or do I have greedy tendencies?

Am actually sitting here laughing at the salmon/trout mix up. I would loved to have seen your face thumbwitch when she worriedly revealed the "enormous salmon"

Also @ geraldine "saucepan lady" what a great nickname that was a fantastic thread!

Has the lobster seen Transformers then?

LineRunner - think it's teeth

another view

I just hope that's a very small tin.

Thumbwitch that is hilarious

I'm trying to recall the smallest portion of food I've ever been seriously offered. But six people sharing a trout - that's pretty special.

I love that you pretended it was normal so british I love a picnic but usually have loads of stuff for one Easily enough sandwiches and drinks for 2 each and then cakes fruit crisps dips etc I think its odd unless they may be a bit skint and didn't want to say

I would have done a bad murder for a ten inch trout. Talc I hope you don't forget the prawns ring and pig faces for your picnic.

OP, clearly the thought you'd bring your own stuff! or at least a proper contribution.

Or for a real treat google pork brains in milk gravy. Sounds scrumptious.

Well, just to entertain you further - said friend had a flatmate who was fond of baking. The flatmate went to bake a cake but couldn't find the brown sugar she was sure she had - so went out and bought another 1kg bag. Next weekend, tried to do some more baking - brown sugar was again missing! So she asked my friend who said:

(wait for it)

"Oh, I threw it out - I thought it had gone off"

that's priceless! she thought it was off because it was brown?

did anyone see the Pombear advert on here?

did we approve Pombears advertising?

I just can't stop wondering what would have happened if we had all wanted a yoghurt. There may have been fisticuffs.

Tee hee thumbwitch

depends on whether there were enough spoons to go round....

Nouvelle Cusiine for Picnics :o

nickel - yep. She was unaware that brown sugar existed.

I don't recall a pombear advert - I do remember the pombear thread though that gave rise to the . [
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how bizarre

the pombear advert is on here at the moment - it was on just before the boden advert.

I've remembered my friend from uni whose idea of a 'slap up meal' was a tiny baked potato with a gram of cheese on top. She would actually serve it up to dinner guests and go 'Mmmm' as she placed it in front of you.

Then I'd find her with her face in my biscuit tin at midnight.

Hahaha her face was in you biscuit tin because her cheesy tubers were not enough to satisfy

Definitely could have made more effort with the picnic. I love making food/preparing meals for people, I can assure you a picnic I'd prepared would be a lot more impressive than those meagre givings

Come on then Dizzy - what's in your pic-a-nic basket??

Is there a pie wrapped in a gingham cloth?

Eggs in a clear jelly? Ox tongue? Individual blancmanges made to look like breasts?

Is this the bit where I mention Greggs?