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Picnic Date Food – Picnic Food to Buy and Essentials for a Successful Date

August 31, 2020 ADVICE FOR MEN, Dating Snippets - Featured Article, Get a Girlfriend

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A great outside date idea during COVID is to have a picnic in the park!

Whether you live in NYC, Los Angeles, Atlanta, Chicago, or anywhere and everywhere in between, a picnic is a great date night idea or a great daytime date during COVID.

Continue reading to learn what to food to pack for a picnic date and what other essentials to bring.

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  • Picnic Date Idea Outside During COVID – Picnic Date Food and Picnic Date Essentials
    • The Best Picnic Foods to Pack for a Date
      • Olives for a Salty Picnic Treat
      • Wine for a Picnic Date (a Must-Have!)
      • Water or La Croix (Girls love La Croix)
      • Almonds to Snack on for an Outdoor Picnic
      • Crackers with Cheese (a MUST for all Picnics)
      • Hummus for Vegetables on a Picnic
      • Grapes (to Add to the Charcuterie Board for Your Picnic)
      • Sliced Apples or Clementines as a Healthy Picnic Food
      • Premade Sandwiches for a Lunchtime Outside Picnic Date
      • Peaches (Optional Picnic Food)
      • Cucumbers or Tomatoes for a Healthy Picnic Food Vegetable
    • Picnic Essentials to Pack for an Outside Date During COVID
      • Paper Plates for Your Picnic Food
      • Plastic Cups (for the Wine of Course!)
      • Napkins or Paper Towels for Your Picnic Date
      • Plastic Silverware to Eat With – a Picnic Date Essential!
      • Picnic Blanket to Sit on With Your Date
      • Bug Repellent (Because a Picnic Date with Mosquitos is No Fun)
      • Sunscreen for Daytime COVID Outside Dates
      • Deck of Cards to Play a Game with Your Date
      • Cooler to Carry the Picnic Food (a Picnic Essential!)
    • More Tips for a Successful Picnic Date Outside During COVID
      • Take Care of the Food
      • Pick Her Up
      • Look Sexy for the Date
    • Please Connect with Dating Snippets

Picnic Date Idea Outside During COVID – Picnic Date Food and Picnic Date Essentials

Packing the food for a picnic date outside during COVID is easy! Just order everything from Amazon (Whole Foods) a day ahead of time.

Tip for Buying Picnic Food

Order the food online prior to 12pm the day ahead of time, as sometimes all the delivery time-slots get taken early – even if it’s for the following day!

The Best Picnic Foods to Pack for a Date

picnic foods to pack for a picnic as part of a covid outdoor date idea with apples, berries, nuts, pita, and meat on a charcuterie board

Picnic Foods to Pack for an Outdoor Date Idea (COVID)

It’s better to have more than enough picnic food than to be short. Order the following picnic foods for your COVID date idea outside.

Olives for a Salty Picnic Treat

olives as a picnic food idea to pack for an outdoor date during coronavirus and covid

Kalamata Olives from Whole Foods

Order Olives from Whole Foods

Wine for a Picnic Date (a Must-Have!)

Wine is a MUST-have for any first date. And that includes a picnic date outside during COVID!

Buy a simple wine for your picnic date from Whole Foods or Trader Joe’s.

Water or La Croix (Girls love La Croix)

Girls love La Croix. Make sure to bring water bottles or La Croix to drink for your outside picnic date. 

Buy La Croix

Go with the fancier smartwater brand for your picnic date.

Buy Water for Picnic

Almonds to Snack on for an Outdoor Picnic

365 Brand roasted and salted almonds from Whole Foods for a healthy snack during hiking or a picnic on a first date outside during covid

Almonds for an Outdoor Picnic

Almonds are a salty, healthy food for a picnic date.

Buy Almonds

Crackers with Cheese (a MUST for all Picnics)

All picnic food includes crackers with cheese. 

365 Pita crackers with sea salt for an outdoor picnic date outside during covid

Pita Crackers from Whole Foods

Buy Crackers

The best cheeses are aged (aged cheddar, gruyere, or gouda) or soft cheeses (brie, camembert, goat).

Buy Gouda Cheese

Hummus for Vegetables on a Picnic

Hummus is a healthier alternative to cheese for an outside picnic food to pack during COVID.

hummus from Whole Foods Market to pack on a third date for a picnic food outside during food

Hummus from Whole Foods

Avoid hummus with garlic for your outside picnic date!

Buy Hummus

Grapes (to Add to the Charcuterie Board for Your Picnic)

Grapes are a great picnic food.

purple grapes to pack on an outdoor picnic for a picnic food and picnic snack to enjoy outside during a covid date

Red Grapes for a Picnic Date

Buy Grapes

Sliced Apples or Clementines as a Healthy Picnic Food

You should have a healthy fruit option for your picnic food. Apples and clementines are a good choice. Everyone loves fuji apples.

Buy Apples

Buy Clementines

Premade Sandwiches for a Lunchtime Outside Picnic Date

Order a simple turkey sandwich or turkey wrap for your picnic date lunch.

Buy Sandwiches

Peaches (Optional Picnic Food)

Add peaches to your picnic food list if peaches are in season. (I personally prefer yellow peaches over white peaches.)

Buy Peaches

Cucumbers or Tomatoes for a Healthy Picnic Food Vegetable

Cucumbers and tomatoes are healthy vegetables for your outside COVID picnic date. Buy the grape tomatoes for  your picnic food.

Buy Cucumbers

Buy Tomatoes

Picnic Essentials to Pack for an Outside Date During COVID

Taking care of the food is #1 for planning your picnic date outside. A girl will be impressed on your picnic date if you get the food taken care of. Now you just have to make sure you don’t forget the picnic date essentials, like cups for the wine or a picnic blanket to sit on!

Paper Plates for Your Picnic Food

You’ll need paper plates! Buy eco-friendly plates to impress a girl. Avoid Dixie paper plates (they are owned by Georgia Pacific and the Koch Brothers – both horrible!) and please don’t be tacky and order Styrofoam plates.

Buy Paper Plates

Plastic Cups (for the Wine of Course!)

Any plastic cup will do. Think big, red solo cup or plastic cups.

Buy Plastic Cups

Napkins or Paper Towels for Your Picnic Date

Buy Napkins

Plastic Silverware to Eat With – a Picnic Date Essential!

You can often get free silverware from Whole Foods or Trader Joe’s if you are shopping in person. If you are ordering online, get forks and spoons. You can always keep the extra for your next outdoor date!

Buy Cutlery

Picnic Blanket to Sit on With Your Date

No girl wants to sit on wet grass or get her dress dirty! Bring a picnic blanket. If you don’t own one, ask her if she has one.

However, it would be helpful to own a picnic blanket anyway. You’ll probably end up using it for your next picnic date or music festival once all this COVID-stuff is over.

Any picnic blanket for your outside date will do. Here’s one from Amazon.

Buy Picnic Blanket

Bug Repellent (Because a Picnic Date with Mosquitos is No Fun)

You may have the picnic food down, but the date won’t be fun if you are both being eaten alive by mosquitoes. Get bug repellent.

Buy Bug Repellent 

Sunscreen for Daytime COVID Outside Dates

Any sunscreen will do for your picnic date. If you want a thorough review of the best sunscreens for face, check out this article by Very Easy Makeup. Here’s a review of the best sunscreen for body by Very Easy Makeup.

Buy Sunscreen

Deck of Cards to Play a Game with Your Date

If you are searching for COVID date ideas outside, you can always ask a girl to play cards outside! Bring a deck of cards to the date. Plus, it takes pressure off of the conversation.

Buy Cards to Play a Game

Cooler to Carry the Picnic Food (a Picnic Essential!)

Cooler for an outdoor picnic date in new york city and a picnic date in los angeles

Cooler Bag for a Picnic

Whole Foods will deliver your refrigerated food in a cooler bag, but it would be helpful to own an actual cooler or bag to carry your picnic food! You don’t need to buy a pretty picnic basket for your picnic food.

You can buy a simple insulated cooler bag online for less than $20.

cooler bag and gray tote for an outdoor picnic in gray with pockets and insulated bag for picnics, camping, and beach trips

Cooler Bag with Pockets on the Outside

Buy Cooler Bag

More Tips for a Successful Picnic Date Outside During COVID

Want more tips for a successful picnic date? Continue reading to rock your COVID picnic date idea.

Take Care of the Food

If you are a guy, order all the food and let the girl know that you have it taken care of. It will make her taken care of and she’ll love it. When she asks, “What can I bring?” ask her to bring the dessert!

Pick Her Up

Pick the girl up for your picnic date.

Look Sexy for the Date

Wear classy looking clothes. Check out this Pinterest page by Dating Snippets for daytime date outfits and sexy clothes ideas for men.

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Christina from Dating Snippets (a girl who loves sharing all her dating advice, dating experiences, date night ideas, and daytime date ideas for people living in Atlanta!)

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