13 of best picnic essentials for socially distanced outdoor dining - YOU Magazine Fashion Beauty Celebrity Health Life Relationships Horoscopes Food Interiors Travel Sign in Welcome!Log into your account Forgot your password? Password recovery Recover your password Search Sign in Welcome! Log into your account Forgot your password? Get help Password recovery Recover your password A password will be e-mailed to you. YOU Magazine Fashion Beauty Celebrity Health Life Relationships Horoscopes Food Interiors Travel Home Life 13 of best picnic essentials for socially distanced outdoor dining By You Magazine - May 15, 2020 Now that the government has officially confirmed we can spend unlimited time outside – and the weather has turned irresistibly warm – our minds have quickly turned to that quintessentially classic British pastime: picnics. Getty Images A summer in Britain isn’t complete until you’ve spent an afternoon lounging on a blanket in a park, nibbling on tasty treats and sipping wine while batting away wasps, dodging flying footballs and flicking ants off the cheese. Ahh, what a picture… But frankly, we’ll do anything to get out of the house right now, so we’ll take all the wasps and ants if it means an afternoon of sunning ourselves in the grassy outdoors (only with people from our own household, of course, or with one other person at a safe 2 metre distance). Getty Images And so a socially distanced picnic it is – but what to take with you? To create a picture perfect picnic, you’ll need a basket, blanket, plates, bowls, cutlery and glasses. Lucky for you, we’ve taken on the arduous task of rounding up the best of each, leaving you to simply ‘add to basket’ and enjoy your picnic. Picnic baskets Regency Hampers Empty Picnic Basket ‘Barrel’ Hamper, £59.20, Regency Hampers Not On The High Street Large Wicker Picnic Hamper Basket, £41, Not On The High Street Anthropologie Rattan Wine & Bread Basket, £68, Anthropologie VonShef 4 Person Herringbone Picnic Hamper, £42.99, VonShef Sophie Allport Bees Picnic Bag, £32, Sophie Allport Picnic blankets Sophie Allport Coastal Birds Knitted Picnic Blanket, £36, Sophie Allport National Trust National Trust Rug – Multicolour Fishbone, £40, National Trust Mountain Warehouse Picnic Mat, £12.99, Mountain Warehouse French Connection Poppy Picnic Rug, £125, French Connection Picnic accessories Amara Sunnylife Lovers Picnic Set – Kasbah, £25, Amara Marks & Spencer Set of 4 Rainbow Picnic Champagne Flutes, £15, Marks & Spencer Sainsbury’s Sahara Melamine Cereal Bowl Assortment, £2.50 each, Sainsbury’s HEMA 8 paper cups 250ml, £1.50, HEMA RELATED ARTICLESMORE FROM AUTHOR Everything we know about The Crown season 5 Aldi s exercise equipment is on sale with up to 50% off The best Halloween events for 2022 across the UK Popular in Life The You magazine team reveal their New Year s resolutions December 31, 2021 Susannah Taylor The TLC tools your body will love January 23, 2022 How to stop living in fear February 6, 2022 Susannah Taylor My pick of the fittest leggings February 27, 2022 Women’ s Prize for Fiction 2022 winner announced June 17, 2022 These BBC dramas are returning for a second series June 30, 2022 Susannah Taylor gives the lowdown on nature s little helper – CBD April 17, 2022 The baby names that are banned across the world April 27, 2022 The Queen has released her own emojis May 26, 2022 Sally Brompton horoscopes 27th June-3rd July 2022 June 26, 2022 Popular CategoriesFood2704Life2496Fashion2240Beauty1738Celebrity1261Interiors684 Sign up for YOUMail Thanks for subscribing Please check your email to confirm (If you don't see the email, check the spam box) Fashion Beauty Celebrity Life Food Privacy & Cookies T&C Copyright 2022 - YOU Magazine. All Rights Reserved