Monday & Picnic Advice

Today we finally got our own lock on the gate/door at our allotment. We spent a while there cleaning out the shed this morning but couldn't do much else without all our tools and things up there.



We came home and spent some time reading in the sun after lunch, Cameron is getting stuck into a fictional story set in WW2 that he ordered from the school library service. Then he did some bubble blowing. We watched a very sad episode of Little House on the Prairie and generally pottered for the rest of the afternoon.



This evening my Dad gave us a lift up to the allotment with all our stuff which was a huge help. Cameron enjoyed showing off our new space and was particularly proud of his stamped out path, of which we were treated to a guided tour.
I spent some (read: most) of my day thinking about the time we will be spending at the allotment and ways to make it fun for Cameron after the novelty wears off. My thoughts turned to picnic/pack-up lunches and I'm having a total mental block about ideas.



For tomorrow I've made homemade veggie pizza and some disappointing pretzels for snacks (a recipe I won't be trying again) but they can be spruced up with a dip of some kind, fruit and drinks.



I want to be able to pull out the stops and bring spectacular, show stopping lunches, particularly as I'm not sure how much energy I'll have for making big meals for tea after days of hard digging for the foreseeable. There is a lovely chapter in Festivals Family & Food about picnics but a lot of it is egg based - flans, quiches, mayonnaise etc. and we have quite sensitive, aspie tummies for what I call "high risk" foods, particularly when they are more high risk by hanging around in the shed all morning (and there are no toilets at the allotments!). So... I'm hoping you guys will help out with ideas for pack-ups and picnic lunches, preferably sans egg or yoghurt or anything else that is "high risk".
No idea too simple or extravagant, we'd love to hear your ideas and favourites - do comment!