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Any Good Picnic Food Ideas?

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mart
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Hi everyone. We went on a picnic last week, and the food was boring at best. I packed cut up fruit, cheese sticks, chips and gluten-free cream soda. What they really wanted was fried chicken, but let's face it. My gluten-free fried chicken tastes like nothing and loses most of it's coating by the time I've taken it out of the fryer.

Any delicious ideas to share?

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penguin Community Regular
penguin
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Potato salad, cole slaw, and pasta salad can all be made gluten-free easily. Potato salad and cole slaw are naturally gluten-free, actually. I imagine pasta salad with tinkyada macaroni would be awesome!

I can't divulge my mom's secret dressing for these, but it's just mayo, mustard, vinegar, and brown sugar.

Otherwise, how about bbq chicken instead of fried? I love cold bbq chicken, it's great for picnics!

Or you could do fried catfish, I believe the Tony Chechierre's (I totally hacked the name) fish fry breading is gluten-free.

Oooh! And cornbread! Or gluten-free hushpuppies! YUM!!!

Can you tell I'm southern? ;)

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Guhlia
Posted

What about plain, unseasoned peices of cold chicken. Then take a few different sauces for dipping like honey, bbq, sweet and sour, etc... That way everyone can have whatever flavor they want. Also, nut thins (or another gluten-free cracker), cheese slices, and gluten-free lunch meat make nice bite size sandwiches. Chilled corn quessadillas and salsa is nice for a warm day. You could make a dip for your fruit wedges to add flavor. Potato salad is a great idea too. You could also make fresh lemonade as an alternative to soda. If you have children, they may enjoy making it for you if they're old enough. Hope your next picnic is more exciting for you! :)

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Carriefaith
Posted

Try Shake 'n Bake on your chicken! Barbeque Chicken Glaze, Spicy BBQ Chicken Wings Glaze, and Teriyaki Chicken Glaze are gluten free.

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The list is from Canada, so you may want to double check if you are from the US.

jaten Enthusiast
jaten
Posted

Nini's chicken!!! Use it for chicken tenders. Yummmm.

Nini's Oven Fried Chicken

* 1-2 pounds of organic free range chicken pieces

* 1 cup of Barbara's Instant Mashed Potato Flakes

* ½ tsp Simply Organic Garlic Salt

* ½ tsp Paprika

* 4 tbsp butter or oil

* 1 egg

1. Preheat oven to 425

2. Melt butter in a 13 x 9 baking pan in oven (or put the oil in the pan-don't heat the oil)

3. Wash the chicken pieces and keep them wet

4. mix the potato flakes, garlic salt and paprika in a bowl

5. scramble egg and dip chicken in the egg

6. coat the chicken pieces in the potato mixture making sure it is coated thoroughly

7. arrange in the 13 x 9 pan and bake for 40 – 45 minutes, turn over halfway through.

WARNING: This recipe may become habit-forming.

I could easily eat these chicken tenders a couple of times a week, and they make a great picnic. My dh and I were going to see Cirque du Soleil in Memphis last week, and because of show-time & travel-time we needed supper en route, but neither of us wanted to risk my getting glutened. I made a picnic basket with these as the main attraction. Wrapped in foil and placed in an insulated carrier, they stayed hot until we were ready to eat; with dipping sauce, carrot sticks, chips, and a couple of apples we were definitely King and Queen of the Road :)

Hubby ate so many chicken tenders, he never made it to the cookies...very unusual for the man to have to pass up dessert.

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