Christmas Carol Picnic Ideas Please

[Daydream Believer]

We are going to some Christmas Carols this Saturday night & they start around 6ish and finish around 10ish. We will be getting there around 4 because they have kids stuff beforehand.

So I'm after some easy picnic/finger food/snack ideas for dinner, sweets & supper.

Please share any ideas

TIA

[Bloom]

I think mini quiche are a great idea as they are easy to eat, only requires hands and yet are filling and kinda like a meal. You could also do greek salad kebabs (on a stick put feta, olives, cherry tomatoes and cucumber chunks). Mmmmmm.

[~ Zarava Flutterby ~]

Basic salad sandwiches, fairy bread, cookies, popcorn, little salad tubs, cold pasta salad

[Just Me]

Devilled eggs, mexican bean salad and corn chips, cold chicken drumsticks - marinated or crumbed, sushi, rice wraps, mini hotdogs (made with bake at home bread rolls and cherios), bruschetta (if you take the tomato mix and bread seperately and then just spoon it onto a piece of bread there), fruit skewers, cupcakes, slices, pizza scrolls, bean and cheese quesidilla (sp?) slices with avacado and lemon dip, monkey tail (rolled) sandwiches.

Actually, if you go to the Taste website and enter 'picnic' into the search bar, there are pages and pages of really great ideas. I love browsing through there for new picnic ideas.

Enjoy!

[Visitor7]

Last year we got a cooked chook, chips with fresh bread and snacks. Others that were with us had toasted sandwiches (pre-cooked at home), fresh sandwiches and snacks.

[feeb]

We have taken Charcoal chook and rolls, or pre made sandwiches, dip and bickies, cheese cubes etc.
Fruit
Wraps
Popcorn
Corn chips

We have also bought at fundraising BBQ that are generally at carols by candelight sausages in bread yumm!

[Rouge]

We normally do cooked chicken wingettes/drumsticks, cooked meatballs & salsa or chutney, mini quiches, frittata, baguettes, antipasto, roast potato salad, pre-cooked marinated corn cobs, leek & brie tarts, TD's Taboulleh, Lamb Salad, Potato Salad, Smoked or flaked (pink and cooked) Salmon with baby chats baby spinach and a sour cream dressing, Nigellas crumbed lamb cutlets, Nigellas baked/fried Gnocchi, Turkish bread and dips, Pesto Mayo Crumbed Chicken Nuggets, Chicken & Avocado Wanton Cups,

Sweets:

Mini Choc Brownie bites, Cupcakes, Blueberry Pie, Brown Sugar Meringues with Strawberries & Cream, French Apple Teacake, Sour Cream Apple Slice, Frog in a Pond for kids (or Poos and wees depending on your kids: instead of chocolate frog use a picnic in yellow jelly), Home made Pods (get cookie dough and put a tbs of dough in lined mini muffin tin, or you could use silicon, and cook for about 10 mins or until golden and once its golden and its hot poke a round style chocolate in the middle ie. rolo or those cadbury bites. The chocolate will melt into the middle of the biscuit and you'll be left with a perfect little pod), fruit salad cups with raspberry or chocolate yoghurt cream... Anything basically...

And if you can grab one of those awesome esky drink containers (with the tap) and fill with your fave non alcoholic punch recipe, just have a container of chopped fruit to pop into each glass to garnish.

[Rouge]

Oh and we also have made turkey meatballs served with cranberry sauce to go with the xmas theme...

And taken along pudding bites (plum pudding crumbled and you stir through about 1 cup of chocolate frosting... you can cheat and use betty crocker... and then roll into pudding shapes ie. roll in a ball then flatten on one size and then drizzle with white choc and top with a red m&m or jaffa ball depending on how big you do them)

And for the kids (who don't like pudding) we'd do the royale puddings... get a choc royale and drizzle with white choc and top with a jaffa and chopped mint leaves to look like holly.