What would you put in a picnic...

[BertieBotts]

...You may NOT include any pre-made food like scotch eggs. However, pre-made pastry is available.

Also anything made with ordinary sliced bread is out.

I don't mind doing a little bit of pre prep but I am not the world's most fantastic cook in all honesty.

(Living abroad and struggling to come up with ideas. Help! :))

Roast chicken drumsticks
Potato salad
Pasta salad
Cous-cous with vegetables eg roast aubergines and peppers or salad items such as cucumber olives tomatoes
Selection of cold meats & sausages
Selection of cheese

Homemade hummus and guacamole
Sliced cucumbers, carrots and peppers to dip
Would baking your own bread be an option? It's super easy if you have/can borrow a bread maker

Puff pastry tart
Spanakopitta
That thing were you scoop out the inside of a loaf, fill it with stuff - meat, salad, vegggies etc and wrap it in clingfilm in the fridge overnight to "set"
Stromboli or cold pizza

Fritata
Falafels, pita, humous, crudités, dips
Puff pastry topped with figs and Gorgonzola.
Mini chicken skewers

*Bullshot to drink (google it)
*soft brown buns with tuna mayo
*soft white buns with butter and finely sliced ripe tomatoes and torn basil
*cooked mini cocktail sausages in honey/soy/mustard, or just by themselves
*Crisps

Cheese straws www.bbcgoodfood.com/recipes/2413/quick-cheese-straws
Caprese skewers
Frittata muffins realfood.tesco.com/recipes/green-frittata-muffins.html
Chipolatas or cocktail sausages
Roast chickpeas allrecipes.co.uk/recipe/1958/olive-oil-roasted-chickpeas.aspx

Cheese flapjacks www.sainsburysmagazine.co.uk/recipes/baking/cheese-and-onion-flapjacks

Cooked baby new potatoes with creme fraiche & mint

Homemade quiche

It does rather depend where you're living, Bertie! If you're in the south of France or Italy or some other glorious Mediterranean place where it's still quite warm and the food is wonderful, surely you just go to a deli or supermarket and buy lots of lovely stuff.

If you live somewhere in the north of Europe where it's wet and cold and the food culture is a bit different, you might have to do something a bit different. How many other countries have soft baps and cocktail sausages? I'm guessing Ireland only.

:o True. I am in Germany. It's fairly wet and cold at the moment. No cocktail sausages here but I could use Bratwurstchen. And the soft rolls are just as bad as the sliced bread (weirdly sweet and crumbly, I think American style?) We can get crusty rolls but I think they'll go stale over the day in a lunch bag.

I like the potato salad, chicken skewers, cheese straws, sliced vegetables with humous, pasta salad ideas.

Will add some nice fruit and biscuity things to that and it should be nice.