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Picnic food

Whether you're stealing half an hour on your lunch break or relaxing for a whole afternoon, packing the perfect picnic couldn't be easier with our collection of tasty picnic food. We've got handy tips and picnic recipes to help you embrace alfresco eating.

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This generous meatloaf pie, wrapped in buttery puff pastry and served with a classic tomato sauce, is the perfect centrepiece for your picnic and is equally delicious hot or cold.
Meatloaf picnic pie with tomato sauce
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Liven up classic Scotch eggs with the gorgeous, deep flavour of black pudding and a hint of sweetness from fresh cox apple. This tasty twist on a picnic must have is sure to impress and is surprisingly easy to make
Apple and black pudding scotch eggs
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Try this summer twist on a classic Bakewell tart for a pretty dessert that is perfect for packing up and taking on picnics. This easy traybake makes the most of seasonal stone fruit with juicy nectarines topping the soft frangipane and buttery puff pastry
Nectarine Bakewell traybake
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Following a gluten-free diet needn't mean you have to pass on the pasties this picnic season. These moreish, gorgeously golden bakes are packed with butternut squash, spinach, feta cheese and a kick of chilli, and are perfect for spicing up your hamper
Gluten-free butternut squash and feta pasties
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Savoury picnic snacks don't come much better than this - a tasty twist on traditional scones that makes the most of three delicious cheeses
Three-cheese scones with herb butter
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This colourful Indian-inspired traybake recipe is the perfect vegetarian summer lunch. The tandoori-spiced, veg-packed twist on a frittata is filled with sweet red peppers, creamy paneer cheese and plenty of fresh coriander for an easy portable lunch.
Tandoori paneer, pepper and cauliflower bake
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These generous crab rolls are a true taste of the seaside. Sweet crab is the star of the show in a creamy mayo dressing, stuffed into buttery brioche rolls with crisp lettuce for the ultimate picnic or summer lunch treat.
Crab rolls
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Enjoy a homemade sweet treat with no need to turn on the oven with this easy chocolate tiffin with fresh juicy cherries, crushed ginger nut biscuits and creamy milk chocolate.
Chocolate, ginger and cherry tiffin
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Strawberry cheesecake tarts
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Need something sweet but don’t want to cook? These strawberry cheesecake tarts are the answer. With a crumbly ginger biscuit base, Greek yogurt and soft cheese filling with strawberries and jam on top, these fruity treats are pure indulgence.
  • Serves 4
  • 20mins to prepare, 5mins to cook and 25mins to cool
  • 563 calories
Rainbow salad
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Add a burst of colour to your picnic basket with this speedy rainbow salad that is sure to put a smile on your face
  • Serves 4
  • 10 mins
  • 132 calories
Sausage and egg picnic pie
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The ultimate picnic bake – sausage, onion and leek pie with perfecly soft-boiled eggs baked right in and a golden pastry crust
  • Serves 10
  • 45 mins to prepare and 1 hr 5 mins to cook, plus chilling
  • 590 calories
Onion bhaji burgers
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Pack up a quick and easy plant-based picnic! These onion bhaji burgers use just 5 ingredients
  • Serves 4
  • 5 mins
  • 351 calories
Blackberry clafoutis
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Blackberries have a sweet and tangy flavour, making them the perfect fruit to use in this twist on the French dessert.
  • Serves 4
  • 50 mins
  • 392 calories
3-ingredient pork and apple sausage rolls
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You need just three ingredients to create these sausage rolls. They are ideal for your picnic, lunchbox, party or afternoon tea break.
  • Serves 0
  • 45 mins
  • 174 calories
15-minute picnic pasta
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Jamie says: "This no-cook pasta sauce is perfect for a quick lunch or picnic salad. While the pasta is cooking, simply blitz everything in a blender and it’s done"
  • Serves 4
  • 15 mins
  • 471 calories
Red grapefruit and poppy seed loaf cake
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Red grapefruit is sweeter than pink and white varieties, try this seasonal stunner in a loaf cake, perfect as an afternoon treat
  • Serves 12
  • 1 hr 15 mins plus cooling
  • 375 calories

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