August is National Picnic Month

Food       From Hilary Pollack, your About Food Editor   Trending now on About.com: 10 Yoga Workouts to Tone Your Arms How to Make Thinning Hair Appear Fuller Are Criminals Really Tracking You Through Your Keychain?   Follow us on:         Who doesn’t enjoy a perfect picnic? Hittin’ the green grass with a basket full of tasty treats, whether with your family or a love interest, is a time-honored tradition in spring and late summer. Make the most of August by heading to the park with an assortment of these goodies—from sandwiches and wraps to potato salad and fresh-baked brownies. Now that’s the great outdoors. Want more from About.com Food? Like us on Facebook, follow us on Twitter, or visit our Pinterest page and our brand new Instagram account for daily recipes, cooking tips, and more.     Superb Sandwiches From traditional chicken salad to elegant apple and cheddar, there are infinite ways to make the perfect picnic sandwich. Here are a few of our favorite fillings (and if you’re wondering, our bread of choice is focaccia). READ NOW Southern Chicken Salad Sandwiches How to Make Vietnamese Banh Mi Shrimp Salad Sandwiches for Two Mediterranean Tuna Tapenade Sandwiches Toasted Apple Cheddar Paninis   That’s a Wrap The cylindrical cousin to sandwiches, wraps are equally tasty and share the same convenient quality of being handheld. Plus, they have some of their own flair—falafel or burritos, anyone? READ NOW Chicken and Avocado Wraps Turkey Wraps with Apricot Jam and Bacon Vegetarian Tex-Mex Wraps Easy Vegan Cream Cheese Veggie Wraps How to Make Baked Falafel Wraps   You Say Salad No picnic is complete without a Tupperware full of salad—sometimes the traditional kind, sometimes the potato kind. These hearty choices pack big bite into small volume, so you can streamline your basket to get the best bang for your figurative buck. READ NOW Barkey and Roasted Vegetable Salad Red Potato Salad with Herbs Chopped Greek Salad Cucumber Feta Salad with Mint   Brownies and Bars Fresh-baked brownies are just the best, aren’t they? Warm, gooey, fudgy, and chocolaty. But best of all, they’re easy to take on-the-go—just let them cool, wrap them in wax paper and bring them to your scenic spot of choice. Dessert is pretty crucial for any meal, and picnics are no exception. READ NOW Mint Chocolate Chip Brownies The Best Brownie Dessert Recipes The Ultimate From-Scratch Brownie Recipe Fudgy Brownies for Two   ADVERTISEMENT Featured Articles Fish with Creamy Squash Rice Thai Grilled Quail with Spicy Sesame Noodles German Sunken Sour Cherry Cake Blackberry Balsamic Chicken The 5 Best Ways to Serve Burrata The Health Benefits of Cantaloupe Juice Farmer's Market Pot Pie More from About.com Sign up for Shareables! An every-morning rundown of the day in history, with headlines and trends produced by your pals at About.com. Click here to sign up! It's free (of course) and we think you'll like it! Want More From About.com? Check out our social channels tailored to every interest! Sign up for more free newsletters on your favorite topics You are receiving this newsletter because you subscribed to the About.com Healthy Eating newsletter. If you wish to unsubscribe, please click here. If you would like to unsubscribe from all newsletters sent from About.com, please send an email to optout@about.com with "Unsubscribe" as the subject line. Contact Information: 1500 Broadway, 6th Floor New York, NY, 10036 Privacy Policy © 2014 About.com