Just to really rub the salt into the wound that summer is over, and the time for having picnics is drawing to a close, what does everyone like to have at a picnic?

Also, could you have a winter picnic? With hot chocolate in flasks, and a "warm box"? Hahaha maybe not...

Anyways, hard boiled eggs, chicken drumsticks, egg sandwiches etc, what do you love to eat at a picnic?

(this has nothing whatsoever to do with the fact that next week my friends and I are picnicking )

Mini pork pies
Fruit cake

Quiche, ham sandwiches, crisps, fruit cake. (Most cold food, actually!)

Cheese and pickle sandwiches (must be made with [/u]vintage cheddar) and flapjack

Whenever I drive home to the UK to visit I make a point of packing food....no more M4 service station food

Lots of salad in pots in the summer. If I'm doing the journey when it's not so warm, I have this great 'food flask'.. it holds not only soup, but also pasta, stews/casseroles.. God bless Lidl

Scotch eggs, stottie with some kind of filling (am quite partial to chicken and bacon), carrots, cucumber, raddishes and juice (usually either orange squash or pink squash).

A winter picnic would be a bacon and egg stottie with mushrooms and red sauce. Not sure how I'd keep it warm though.

Winter picnics soooo dont appeal to me.......out in the freezing cold....No0o0o0o.

But if they did - mulled wine - ha kidding hate the stuff.

Kitkats cos ive got a packet in my room

Mmmmmm stotties. A local delicacy mind pet.

If you are driving you could lash your stottie wrapped in foil to the exhaust manifold of the car. A friend of mine did this successfully with a fish!

The only winter "picnic" I can recall was mince pies and champagne on top of Scafell Pike on a snowy new year's day. I like the food flask idea but I don't have one. Take 2 - one with stew to eat with hunks of bread and a second with rice pud. Oh and a big flask of coffee (or tea). Ah and a nip of something stronger

Definitely smoked salmon sandwiches (NOT with cucumber). Mini pork pies. A bottle of Chablis

I've had mulled wine when out hill walking. It works well as long as you don't overdo it.

I have a food flask that has never been used (yet another impulse buy). Curry and rice sounds good for a picnic and you could eat it with a spoon - time to start using my flask.

Things that don't fall apart when you try to eat them! I made some delicious (although I say it myself!) sandwiches filled with chicken and chutney and bits of bacon and avocado. Well as we tried to cram them inot our mouths bits just fell everywhere and stained our clothes.
Cold lamb chops are good and easy to eat. Home made mini scotch eggs using quail eggs are nice, though a bit of a fiddle to make.

All these suggestions are lovely, both hot and cold. And I would just like to say that I have nothing to add to the list, but I am now very, very hungry

Baked potatoes, wrap them in foil and they stay warm. Pizza. I love cold pizza. Wraps, a great fun thing. Humous and pitta bread. Chopped melon, pineapple - bottle of wine

Thanks everyone! Some GREAT ideas there.

Ahhh, mulled wine. I can't have alcoholic cause I'm not 18 yet, (my friends are, but I have kidney problemmos) but last winter at school my friends and me all had an xmas feast with non alcoholic mulled wine.

Also- guess what I'm eating right now? A MINCE PIE.

Sainsburys already has their xmas food out. Hahahhaha.

Aaaaaaaaaggggggghhhhh!!!!!! Nnnnnooooooo.

Cold pizza, cold sausage rolls. Yummmm

Flasks of soup, homemade bread, cheese, smoked salmon, salade etc I always take a table cloth too as you never know how clean oicnic tables are.

In the summer we took a friend to the lakes for picnic. it was a lovely hot sunny day so we longed on picnic in the dappled shade of a tree and ate the above minus the soup but with melon and cherries instead. A wonderful day. I love picnics.

If you want mulled but can't have alcohol, try mulled apple juice. Works well.

Stottie is a new one on me...what's a stottie Flossie?

Have you never seen a stottie? It's kind of a cross between a bread and a roll. Looks a bit like a giant muffin but has a different texture. It's a bit hard to describe because it isn't really quite like anything else...

Not something I've come across before Flossie : certainly I've not seen anything like it in the South East. When I'm up in your neck of the woods, you'll have to point at one for me!

You've been deprived.

Scones, with jam, and possibly cream, although buttered scones with jam is just fine too.

It's a North East thing. I never saw one before I went to Newcastle. Go into any shop there and you'll see them

I've never eaten one though...

*adds to list of things to do when in the North East next year*

I read a in the paper a couple of weeks ago that Sainsburys were selling Xmas mince pies...but the expiry date was October!!!

Get him a ham and pease pudding one Flossie. I used to love those when I lived in Durham.

I think we're missing something here missypiano : perhaps mince pies are traditionally eaten at Hallowe'en too, and we didn't realise...