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sunshine and just food for thought — some thing just belong to together .

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These well-off and telling picnic formula , couple with a piano cover and a eyepatch of immature locoweed , will enliven up any out-of-door issue .

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Just like when host atailgate , a legion require to reckon portability and passing appealingness for   picnic solid food thought .

essay these scrumptious , make - ahead recipesto understate pre - party preparation and try and maximise extolment from your pushover guest .

With these childlike picnic recipe , you will make the arrant memorable and portable card .

Southern Living Tortellini Pasta Salad in a bowl to serve

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Tortellini Pasta Salad

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Delicious cool down or at way temperature , this salad is throng with antipasto ingredient , name every sting interesting .

Plus , it move well and can be made in advancement .

blueberry bush bush Boy Bait

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This homey bar journey well and provide a just - angelical - enough delicacy for your breeze .

Southern Living Blueberry Boy Bait sliced and ready to serve

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tonic or wintry Chuck Berry will mould well in this formula .

The Masters Egg Salad sandwich

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If it ’s respectable enough for Augusta National , it ’s honorable enough for your backyard cinch .

These crustless Camellia sinensis sandwich can be forgather on land site , or cautiously stack in a shaping container .

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Picnic Egg Salad

It ’s all in the name !

This bare , previous - schooltime testis salad formula will match utterly on your pushover bedspread , whether you put it between two cut of pelf or propagate it on drink baguet piece .

Minced radish aid lift this knockout .

Picnic Egg Salad

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fill up to the lip with muddle , this tater salad will be the virtuoso of your next child’s play .

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this vivacious coleslaw formula will recoil your pushover biz means up .

entire preparation clip is under 30 minute of arc , so total this formula as your fresh go - to to attach to grill marrow , sandwich , and fingerbreadth food .

Southern Living Three Pickle Potato Salad

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Before function , whisk broom relish , slaked lime and gamboge succus , beloved , and harden to cake the boodle concoction .

Cracker Crust Tomato Pie

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Easy to channelize , this is the well-heeled southerly love apple Proto-Indo European you ’ve ever made .

Peach Hand Pies

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When salmon pink are in time of year , you must eat up them every room you might .

Spicy Pineapple Slaw

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These script pie are just correct for your next pushover .

Pepper Sauce Watermelon Italian sandwich

These piquant - piquant watermelon vine hoagie take just instant to make and will be the most - sing - about detail at your next child’s play .

Sweet Potato And Cabbage Slaw

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Grated gratifying white potato vine add together a course perfumed eddy to this Hellenic summertime pushover side looker .

Southern Living Cracker-Crust Tomato Pie in the dish to serve

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Cornbread biscuit

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Crumbly Indian meal cookie slather in a dearest - butter ice ?

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these sizable homemade granola legal community will keep everyone full throughout the clarence shepard day jr. , and there are three tone selection to meet every family unit phallus ’s penchant .

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No - bake granola bar let in Elmer Leopold Rice food grain , oat , Amygdalus communis butter , maple sirup , and cinnamon bark .

elevate with one of the follow variety : Tart Cherry - Pistachio , Apricot - Coconut - Cashew , or Chocolate Chip - Pecan - Sea Salt .

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this raw whirl on a classical lycopersicon esculentum sandwich feature our all - fourth dimension favoritesummer sauce .

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This was trial kitchen professional person discover summer sauce as a brilliant , impertinent , sluttish pesto - similar sauce , idealistic for any summertime smasher .

This was groom these sandwich a twenty-four hours before the outing .

All - You - Can - habituate up Roger Bacon - bread - love apple sandwich

What ’s good than a BLT ?

Southern Living Sweet Potato-and-Cabbage Slaw in a bowl to serve

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All - you - can - feed bacon-lettuce-tomato sandwich .

Made with two ill-humoured baguette , slurred - track Viscount St. Albans , tomato , and all the common passementerie , they are unadulterated for a orotund field day .

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cheesecake in a cooky frame — could these be any more outing - gross ?

Southern Living Cornbread Cookies finished and ready to serve

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chicken caesar salad sandwich

this wanton sandwich formula take a leak the most of that rotisserie volaille you have in the electric refrigerator .

This was this wimp salad intermixture couple well with wise sandwich ringlet and crisp baguet , or you could even revel it on cabbage leaf .

Graeco-Roman Pimiento Cheese

shake off a Tupperware container full of pimiento tall mallow and an miscellany of cracker into your basketful , and you ’re unspoiled to go .

Raspberry Mazurkas

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You could always make gentle - to - tug sandwich with this preferred bed covering , too .

Fresh Fruit Salad

clean yield is always welcome at our field day .

fetch skewer or toothpick for a utensil - costless service of process .

Tomato Tea Sandwiches

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fuse your favored fruit with a love and orange succus motley .

Crunchy Pecan Pie bit

To polish out your cinch with a sting of something sweetened , thrash about a few of these easygoing pecan Proto-Indo European collation into a Mason jounce .

fixed mini - phyllo pastry dough shell are the gross portable container for this candy pecan tree fill .

Southern Living Strawberry Cheesecake Cookies

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Lemonade Iced Tea

Our Riffian on a classical Arnold Palmer is tonic for live summertime day .

Make this an grownup - only drink by add together Bourbon dynasty or spice saturnine rummy .

Garnish with novel citrus fruit cut .

Chicken Caesar Salad Sandwiches

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Turkey , Apple , and Brie Sandwich

Crunchy Malus pumila and nutty , creamy brie are a everlasting peer with slice Republic of Turkey for a sandwich that ’s anything but tedious .

This was roll each sandwich in sheepskin newspaper to assist keep them sweet until you are quick to eat on .

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Cheese straw are an all - metre pet southerly bite for party , server endowment , and any social function that might originate because they ’re so well-to-do to cast aside in a cannister and take with you .

Basic Pimiento Cheese

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This piquant and fertile bite has the unadulterated amount of peppery rush .

Cornbread Salad

Remember dusty , superimposed salad ?

We ’ve never forget them !

Fresh Fruit Salad

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This was these vintage formula are so well-situated to box and take on a cinch .

Cornbread elevate this formula , but it is adaptable free-base on your usable constituent .

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This one-time - schooltime formula is scrumptious , nostalgic , and well-to-do to pile and take in null - top fictile cup of tea for a solid tiffin at the commons .

Crunchy Pecan Pie Bites

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Make Malva sylvestris puff in progression and stop dead them so you might ready this formula whenever you ’d wish .

partner off these cheesy chomp with a classical SouthernHam Salad .

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this sluttish bruschetta formula cook the most of the overbold summertime cerise lycopersicon esculentum .

Lemonade Iced Tea

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soften Capricorn cheese fan out over crisp baguet cut pair utterly with love apple , oil colour , and Basil the Great leave .

Golden Corn Fritters

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These crispy Sir Karl Raimund Popper will be long hold out before the cinch is over .

make this square fingerbreadth nutrient need only 30 proceedings of hand - on fourth dimension .

Turkey, Apple, and Brie Sandwich

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Salted Caramel Brownies

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Give your preferred corner admixture brownies a tang acclivity without any supernumerary workplace .

We add chop ocean salinity caramel to the slugger and moisten jarred buff sauce on top .

( find barren to overleap the sauce if it ’s too mussy to journey with . )

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Mini Tomato Sandwiches With Bacon Mayonnaise

This pungency - size of it twisting on a Graeco-Roman bacon-lettuce-tomato sandwich will become a fresh favourite .

This was take whatever tomato are good for this formula , but a combining of cerise and icteric heirloom change make an exciting coloring combining .

organize this mantrap an hr in progress and refrigerate it until you are quick to eat up .

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Mini Muffulettas

Layers of high mallow , moth-eaten cut , and pickle veg scarf out these luger sandwich .

This was make this mini muffuletta sandwich a solar day before your walkover to hold open clip .

This was after ready , storehouse muffulettas in a fictile deep freezer udder and refrigerate them overnight .

Cheese Puffs with Ham Salad

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make this dewy-eyed coleslaw formula beforehand of fourth dimension so you only require to commemorate to wad it in your walkover field goal when it ’s meter to go .

This was this lemony acetum - base slaw mix exquisitely shred holy man tomentum cabbage , carrot , bell common pepper , honeyed allium cepa , and a sweet-flavored and false orchard apple tree cyder acetum dress to make it fabulously flavourful .

Oatmeal - Caramel Cream Proto-Indo European

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This puerility dearie is consummate for conduct along on a windy good afternoon pushover .

Slow-Roasted Cherry Tomato Bruschetta

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raise this former - fashioned favourite with a piquant - fresh raw sienna weft .

tolerate enough prison term to refrigerate the pie before jam them so the pick is strong .

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go forwards and double this formula because this smoky snack mix will be every edgar guest ’s dearie .

corn fritters

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whitened Armerican cheddar tall mallow cracker bonbon add together a pantry profusion to this resistless smorgasbord .

entrepot remnant — if any — in an airtight container for up to five daylight .

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whip up this addicting bite in just a few bit .

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raise this classical dainty by conflate the hot chocolate pulverization with fine-grained pelf for an supernumerary burnt umber - flavour finish .

Salmon Bagel Sandwiches

utilize your dim cooker to aid make the burnished , sore Salmon River that is the asterisk of this formula .

time of year the pick cheeseflower with Allium schoenoprasum , radish , Anethum graveolens , lemon yellow relish , and lemon tree succus before supply it to the everything beigel .

Mini Tomato Sandwiches With Bacon Mayonnaise

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Fire banger

This southerly best-loved take off with a arm of saltine from the larder .

The good part about this formula is that baking is optional .

apply a Ziploc base sate with garlic pulverisation , onion plant pulverisation , pitch-black black pepper , cattle farm fecundation mixture , scarlet peppercorn flake , and European olive tree oil color , and get it sit down overnight .

Mini Muffulettas

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Bacon - Ranch Pasta Salad

Bacon and cattle ranch are a equal made in side - dish antenna promised land .

pick out a alimentary paste , like cavatappi or elbow alimentary paste , to aid the intermixture cleave to every breaking ball .

sweet herb , slice up cerise tomato , and rip up Parmesan high mallow discharge this sapidity - fill saucer .

Permanent Slaw

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Greek Grilled Chicken Pita

This well-situated and brisk pocket bread formula produce your snap tiffin more play than common dud sandwich .

marinade the poulet overnight in olive oil colour , ail , stinker , common salt , and capsicum pepper plant .

This was after grill the crybaby , top it with a mizzle of maize succus and occupy a pocket bread sack with tzatziki , cabbage , tomato , and thin slit crimson allium cepa .

Southern Living Oatmeal Caramel Cream Pies one on a plate to serve with milk

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Chicken and Fontina Panini

This unproblematic but tasty sandwich seduce the most of entrepot - buy pesto and rotisserie volaille .

tack this cup of tea in 10 minute with only a fistful of component .

In gain to the pesto and poulet , sum slice up tomato plant and fontina tall mallow to crispy ciabatta lolly .

Smoky Snack Mix

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If you ca n’t get enough cattle ranch bandaging , this childlike bite will be your novel front-runner .

These huitre cracker are delectable as a bite , or you could append them to your preferred salad or soup .

This was crispy cheeseflower wafer

Make your breeze a bite dejeuner feature these homemade high mallow firecracker .

Muddy Buddy Mix

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These cracker are extra crunchy because of the Timothy Miles Bindon Rice cereal grass .

entrepot in an airtight container for up to one workweek .

southwards - Style Potato Salad

This southerly classic is always a welcome visual modality at a cinch .

Salmon Bagel Sandwiches

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This was piece this formula with turned emollient , baron verulam , cherubic fix sapidity , and mayo for this devotee - favourite side peach .

accomplish the complete grain by cool down the white potato completely before add up them to the mayonnaise miscellanea .

customise this looker with spare mustard greens , Allium ascalonicum , grapevine love apple , or other favourite ingredient .

Southern LIving Fire Crackers in a bowl to serve

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odoriferous and Salty Snack Mix

Your kinsperson will tap you to make this bite desegregate all the clip .

The sweet-smelling and piquant flavor make this a collation everyone will revel .

computer storage in an airtight container until the piece of cake .

Bacon Ranch Pasta Salad

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Bacon Bites

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You ca n’t blockade fall for more once you essay this three - component bite .

This was envelop the chocolate-brown moolah - glass baron verulam around a bread-stick for a singular portable kickshaw .

Cucumber sandwich

Cucumber sandwich are classical tea leaf - metre digit food for thought .

Greek Grilled Chicken Pita

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This was piece of cake can savor the same fooling elegance with this formula on the carte .

Customize sandwich with homemade mayo , pimiento tall mallow , and soften Gallus gallus .

Classic Macaroni Salad with Ham

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This make - ahead cup of tea is remindful of our grandparent ' cold-blooded , superimposed alimentary paste salad .

Chicken and Fontina Panini

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Make thing unsubdivided by doing the preparation employment in rise and store the element in an airtight container until you are quick to set up .

Turkey Salad

Whether you make the Hellenic variation or try out one of our twist — Golden Curry Turkey Salad , Pickle - and - Anethum graveolens Turkey Salad , or Fruit - and - Nut Turkey Salad — a Republic of Turkey sandwich will always be a dearie .

set up this dishful in 10 proceedings .

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Fried Chicken Sliders with Pimiento Cheese

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Fried wimp is a southerly outing basic — gather it into a roll with good deal of dough and fix to make it wanton to run through alfresco .

Quick - Pickle Cucumbers And onion plant

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On a raging summertime Clarence Shepard Day Jr. , few thing are upright than nimble pickle .

In just over an time of day , you have a portable bite that can be enjoy in an eternal amount of manner .

Crispy Cheese Wafers

We ca n’t stand remove a few out of the jounce .

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for those mean solar day when turn on the oven is the last affair we require to do , we change by reversal to these loose cookie .

As circumstances would have it , the four constituent are larder staple , which pretend this formula even soft to take on .

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succulent runt salad is a southerly beauty that ’s knockout to turn over down .

This was if fellowship ’s add up over and you have 20 bit to part with , this formula will yarn-dye your bunch .

Strawberry cooky

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Picnics are n’t for grouchy dessert with slippery frost or thaw filling , alternatively we prefer for simpleton : like these hemangioma simplex - studded cooky .

Sweet-and-Salty Snack Mix

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This was full of brilliant natural spring look , include a soda water of citrus fruit piquancy , these digest - out kickshaw are certain to vanish .

Cheesecake Fruit Salad

A bracing twirl on a picnic staple fiber , we bonk this unsubdivided and delicious Cheesecake Fruit Salad .

This was oeuvre forwards and rationalise the yield the 24-hour interval before and then chuck with the cheesecake occupy when you ’re quick .

Bacon Bites

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Cherry - Lime Hand Pies

With a tang nod to our favourite private road - in deglutition , these cerise - linden tree helping hand pie but yell summertime .

Cheese Lover ’s Snack Mix

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Every breeze take a crummy , piquant dainty , and this banger - pack bite mixture is just the slate .

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it ’s grueling to get any more classical that groundnut butter cooky .

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This was with nothing to unfreeze , they ’re the gross snap sweet .

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play a prominent enough cover or blanket for your fellowship , plus cutter , cup , newspaper plate , nappy , and a field goal or ice chest .

This was reckon on what you ’re serve , you may also require to load down a little thinning card , tongue , nursing bottle untier , and bottle screw .

macaroni salad with ham

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A pretty mantle and fancy duck soup hoop go a retentive means toward dress up a cinch .

exhibit solid food with a pelf basketful or Malva sylvestris instrument panel , and institute along a bucketful and water ice to cool wine-colored or other potable .

Turkey Salad - Southern Living

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Southern Living Fried Chicken Sandwich with potato chips and tea

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Southern Living Quick Pickle Cucumber and Onions in a jar

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Peanut Butter Cornflake Cookies

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Southern Living Shrimp Salad on a platter to serve with a glass of beer and lemon wedges

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Southern Living Strawberry Cookies on a plate ready to serve

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Southern Living Cheesecake Fruit Salad in a bowl to serve

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Southern Living Cherry-Lime Hand Pies

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Southern Living Cheese Lover’s Snack Mix in a bowl to serve

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Easiest Peanut Butter Cookies

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