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Picnic Basket StyleStyles in fashion have changed and so have picnic and outing menus! Yes, the old-time picnic, accompanied by an orgy of cooking and baking days in advance, has been outmoded. "Good eats" play a vital part in making that carefully planned and long looked for, or on-the-spur-of-the-moment picnic a successful event, and yet it is entirely unnecessary for food to take so much attention that mothers and others dread the word "picnics." Since picnics go by types, your first task is to pick the kind of picnic you like best and then plan your menu accordingly and bring the necessary supplies and "eating tools" together. Eating out of doors can, however, have tragic results unless the meal is carefully planned. (See the section on picnic food safety) On every pantry shelf there should be a supply of food products conveniently packed in containers which can be added to the picnic basket. A few such products suitable for picnics which can be purchased at the corner grocery are: canned meats and fish, sandwich spreads, pickles, olives, jams and jellies, cheese, cookies, crackers. When the desire to hold a picnic comes upon one suddenly, leaving no time to make elaborate preparations for refreshments, the menu might he termed the "out-of-the-can" type. Here is where the can opener is an essential item in the picnic "kit." Then there is the picnic where everything, hot or cold, is prepared in the kitchen at home and transported to the picnic grounds in pinic baskets full of preserve jars, thermos bottles, paper containers, and packages of every type and description. And finally, the picnic long to be remembered is the one where a part or all of the food is cooked out of doors. There are certain kinds of outings when one wants to travel "light".
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