Before you start cooking snacks and kebabs at a winter picnic, you should take care of preparing a fire for heating your entire company, and also arrange a kind of heating zone on the grill. After all, in the winter cold, hot dishes cool just instantly. To do this, take a longer brazier with you and at one end make a barbecue or grilled goodies cooking zone, and on the other hand add hot coals, over which the already cooked dishes will be heated. And so that your merry company does not freeze, make a long bonfire: lay two long logs next to each other, on them - one more, and kindle them with brushwood or coal and special liquid. Such a fire will burn for a long time. Now let's get down to our menu.

Baked potatoes in foil. Marching variant of baked potatoes with different   fillers. Potatoes can be well washed with a brush or peeled. Make several transverse cuts on each potato, without reaching the end, to make something like an accordion. Put any products to your cuts to taste, add, pepper, wrap in 1-2 layers of foil as tightly as possible and place on the grill over the fire. Baking time depends on the size of the potatoes and the degree of heating (at least 20-25 minutes). Filler options:

Sliced ​​Bacon, Onions

Thin scrap tiki raw oily fish, onions

Cheese, onions, bacon

Ham, Onion, Garlic

Smoked sausage, garlic

Snack from pita or pita cheese.  Another hot picnic snack, which is prepared literally from everything that was. Take thin Armenian pita bread or pita buns, fill them with any filling and cheese grated on a fine grater, wrap in foil and bake on a wire rack for a few minutes to melt the cheese. Cheese can take ordinary, hard, not sour taste, or opt for suluguni, for example. Fillings can also be any - vegetables, herbs, fish, seafood, meat, sausage, etc.

Peel large champignons, brush with vegetable oil, salt and pepper. Strung on skewers and bake.

Make sandwiches: grease the bread with cream butter, put ham, sausage or baked meat, a slice of cheese and cover the whole structure with bread smeared with butter. Put 3-4 such sandwiches in a row on the foil, wrap and bake until the cheese melts.

At all foil  for a winter picnic - just perfect. It can be wrapped and baked in almost any dish. Before the trip, you can cook cutlets (and any - meat, fish or potato), fried fish or meat, boil dumplings or cook eggplant rolls. At a picnic, you will only have to put the finished products on the foil, sprinkle with cheese, add herbs, spices or garlic to taste and wrap more tightly. And bake for a few minutes!

Another quick snack is waffle sandwiches. For their preparation you need to buy ready-made waffles with a large pattern, spread them with minced meat or fish and put in pairs. Cut into small squares, dip in a beaten egg and roll in breadcrumbs. Fry in vegetable oil, and in nature, wrap in a few pieces in foil and heat on a fire.

  Prepare any fillings: mashed potatoes, cottage cheese mixed with greens and garlic, minced meat or fish, cheese with ham, liver, egg with rice or green onions, boiled heart, cod liver with boiled rice - fantasize! And the fillings can be different. Roll the finished puff pastry into a very thin layer and cut it into strips 7-8 cm wide. At the end of each strip, lay a spoonful of the filling and fold the triangle, pressing the corner. Continue to wrap the ribbon in triangles to the end. Spread out the prepared triangles on a baking sheet covered with baking paper, brush with an egg that is loose from 1 tbsp. water, and put in the freezer for 10 minutes. Then put the pan in a hot oven and bake until golden brown.

Kebab sauces are one of the main conditions for a great al fresco meal. You can prepare several sauces, your guests will appreciate your efforts. And in these divine sauces you can not only dunk meat. Sausages or even ordinary toasted bread with sauce and in the open air is something incredible!

Ingredients:
  1 stack ketchup,
  1/3 stack apple sauce,
  ¼ stack apple juice,
  ¼ stack apple cider vinegar,
  ¼ stack brown sugar,
  ¼ stack grated onions
2 tsp black pepper,
  ¾ tsp garlic powder,
  ¾ tsp ground white pepper.

Cooking:
  Mix all ingredients in a saucepan and bring to a boil. Reduce heat and simmer under cover for 15 minutes.

Ingredients:
  2 stack pitted cherries
  2 tbsp. orange juice,
  2 tbsp. sherry or dry white wine,
  1 tbsp. Sahara,
  1 tbsp. cold water
  2 tsp starch,
  1 tsp orange peel,
  ¾ tsp Dijon mustard,
  ¼ tsp salt.

Cooking:
  Combine the cherries, juice, sugar, orange zest, mustard and salt in a saucepan. Bring to a boil, reduce heat and simmer for 5 minutes. In a separate bowl, mix the water and starch and gently pour into the boiling sauce, stirring constantly. Boil the sauce until thick.

Ingredients:
  1 ½ stack finished mustard,
  ½ stack apple cider vinegar,
  ½ stack of brown sugar,
  1 tbsp. tomato paste,
  1 tbsp. salt,
  1 tsp black pepper,
  1 tsp red pepper,
  1 tsp white ground pepper.

Cooking:
  Combine all the ingredients in a saucepan and simmer for 30 minutes.

Ingredients:
  2 stack finely chopped champignons,
  1 stack of beef broth,
  ¼ stack whiskey
  3 tbsp. butter,
  2 tbsp. flour,
  ½ bunch green onions,
  1 tbsp. parsley
  1 clove garlic,
  1 tsp hot sauce.

Cooking:
  Grate the saucepan with a slice of garlic. Melt it 2 tablespoons. butter, add flour, mix and gradually add broth, stirring constantly, so as not to form lumps. Add the parsley, boil and set aside. Fry mushrooms and chopped onion in the remaining butter until soft, add whiskey, hot sauce and broth with flour. Simmer over low heat for a few minutes. This sauce is good for chicken.

Put a packet of large frozen shrimp in a large frying pan located on grate over a fire or barbecue, and let the liquid melt, merging it. As soon as all the ice has melted, pour the shrimp with vegetable oil, salt it, add spices, or just pour soy sauce and fry.

On skewers or skewers, you can cook not only a classic kebab, but also just fry sausages or sausages. Get a great snack in anticipation of the main course. If you do not want to mess around with skewers, buy special grills: the products are fried on them evenly and do not turn over at the most inappropriate moment.
And, of course, the classics of any nature trips are kebabs. Calculate the amount of meat for a trip to nature is simple - 0.5 kg per consumer. In the fresh air appetite is played out so! Our site offers you to cook shish kebabs from pork, chicken or fish steaks on the grill.

  Cut the meat into portions, salt, add spices to taste. Onion cut into rings. Place the meat in a pan in layers, alternating with onions and pouring vodka on each layer. Marinate for half an hour. Fry the skewers until golden brown. Vodka rolls up meat protein, so it’s not worth keeping meat on fire for a long time, just redden the kebab on a good fire.

Ingredients:
  1.2 kg chicken fillet,
  1 tbsp. sesame oil
  6 cloves of garlic,
  40 g fresh ginger root
  200 ml classic soy sauce
  a piece of fresh hot pepper,
  12 tbsp. sesame seeds.

  Cooking:
  Cut the chicken fillet into small cubes. Marinate the meat in a mixture of sesame oil, chopped ginger, hot pepper and garlic for an hour. String on wooden skewers, wrap the ends with foil, so as not to burn and fry on the grill. Sprinkle with sesame before serving.

In cooking fish should follow the classic "three P": Salt-Acidify-Pepper. You can add some spices to taste, but do not overdo it, otherwise you will score the taste and aroma of fish. So, take steaks from salmon or trout (dry trout), pour them with lemon juice, salt and sprinkle with freshly ground black pepper. Black pepper can be replaced with ground white pepper. Lay on the grill and bake. Serve the steaks with pomegranate sauce.

As for drinks, you should definitely take with you a sufficient amount of clean drinking water, hot sweet tea (or brew and a teapot, which you should not smoke on a bonfire) and something hot. In addition to the usual vodka and other spirits, try cooking mulled wine or hot toddie. And you can do it at home and pour into a thermos. You will be warmed guaranteed, and your head will not hurt (provided, of course, that you will not drink this in liters).

  Ingredients per serving:
  120 ml of apple juice,
  50 ml of red wine,
  1 tbsp. lemon juice
  2 carnation buds,
  1 sugar cube
  pinch of ground cinnamon.

Cooking:
  Combine apple and lemon juice with wine, add spices and heat to a temperature of 60-70 ° C. Strain the finished drink and serve in warm mugs.

Ingredients:
  1 bottle of red wine
  150 ml of cognac,
  100 ml of vodka
  100 g sugar
1 tsp ground cinnamon,
  ½ tsp ground cloves

  3-4 peas allspice.

Cooking:
  Pour the wine into an enamel saucepan, add sugar, spices and heat, stirring with a wooden spoon. Do not bring to a boil, enough temperature 50-60 ° C, add brandy and vodka and reheat again. Pour into a thermos and soak mulled wine for 1-2 hours. This mulled wine is well cooked before leaving the nature.

Ingredients:
  1 bottle of red wine
  1 orange,
  5-6 buds of carnation,
  3-4 black peppercorns,
  1 tsp honey
  a pinch of ground cinnamon,
  a pinch of salt.

Cooking:
  Slice the orange in circles with the peel. Pour wine over oranges and heat to 60 ° C. Add honey and spices, soak for about 10 minutes, strain and serve.

Toddy's hot cocktails differ from mulled wine in composition and preparation. If mulled wine is prepared on the basis of red wine, heating it with spices, then for Toddy all the ingredients are simply mixed in a mug. Before cooking Toddy, rinse the circles with boiling water.

Ingredients per serving:
  40 ml of gin,
  12 ml of lemon juice,
  60 ml of boiling water,
  1 tsp Sahara,
  cinnamon stick

Cooking:
  Pour all ingredients into a mug, mix and serve, garnished with cinnamon stick.

Hot Toddy with Tea

  Ingredients per serving:
  30 ml of whiskey
  1 tbsp. honey
  ¼ lemon,
  150 ml of boiling water,
  1 bag of black tea.

Cooking:
  Put honey in a mug, pour over his whiskey, add lemon juice. Separately brew tea and pour into a mug for alcohol. Stir and serve.

Ingredients per serving:
  1 stack hot water
  1 tsp dry tea leaves,
  1-2 tsp honey
  1 tsp lemon juice
  ¼ stack of whiskey (you can take brandy),
  a pinch of ground nutmeg,
  1 stick of cinnamon,
  lemon slice.

Cooking:
  Brew tea in a glass of boiling water and let it brew for 3-4 minutes. Put honey in a mug, pour in lemon juice and whiskey, pour in tea and let stand for 2-3 minutes. When serving, sprinkle with nutmeg, put cinnamon stick and lemon slice.

Have a great weekend!

Larisa Shuftaykina

A picnic is a wonderful opportunity to spend time with your loved one or friends. But what if outside the window is cold and snowy winter? My decision is to go on a winter picnic :).

Fresh sparkling air, sun rays glistening on the snow cover - what could be better for a great weekend?

Do not forget to dress warmly, because winter is a harsh hostess and in her arms it is not hot at all :).

Arranging a romantic picnic do not forget about upgrading the territory :). Stop your choice on a beautiful table and a pair of chairs, but do not forget to use warm blankets.

Products and dishes can be brought on a sled :). Then you can ride them from the nearest mountain - is it not a fun pastime with your loved one? :)

Of course, the main attribute of the winter picnic are hot drinks - cocoa, tea or aromatic coffee. Pack a thermos and a pair of favorite mugs for yourself and your soulmate.

Take a variety of sweets with you - marshmallows, marmalade, chocolate - this will create a romantic atmosphere. By the way, do not forget to take a camera with you and take a large number of beautiful pictures.

When going on a picnic with friends or children, think about the location, fun and food. Stop at the various snacks that you can find recipes for. Also, you can use various hot dishes - chicken on skewers, kebabs or baked fish.

An unchanged attribute of any picnic is home baking. Treat yourself and your guests with cinnamon and honey, condensed milk or cherry jam rolls.

Decorations

Winter forest will be even more beautiful if you take care of the proper surroundings in advance. Freeze gouache tinted water in ice tins - these “precious” ice can decorate drifts. Hang the candlestick glass lanterns on the branches, light the candles - this is the holiday atmosphere.

Treat

What to cook for a winter picnic? The main principle of the choice of dishes for the winter picnic - they must be hot. For children, boil hot chocolate on a spirit lamp - thick and sweet, according to the rules, add marshmallows, marshmallows and whipped cream to the cups. For adults - with spices. Thermo glasses will not allow drinks to cool quickly, and they will help you to warm up. Sausages, by the way, you can fry right on the chopsticks you chop here, in the forest. Pre-marinated chicken or fish is easy to prepare on charcoal in foil envelopes. Here is a menu for a winter picnic!

Entertainment

Maybe you want to put on a performance or draw a treasure map and send the children to look for them? Of course, in this case it is worthwhile to hide the treasure in advance not far from the place where the winter picnic takes place. Come up with a quest where participants will answer questions or complete tasks, and then receive prizes. Make a bird feeder and squirrel and share the treat. And you can stick a variety of snowmen (ideas for funny figures from the snow can be found on our website). Maybe children will find tangerines growing right on the tree? By the way, in the cold you can also blow bubbles - they freeze and turn into amazing patterned balls, or take a magnifying glass with you and look at the snowflakes.

Outfits

Of course, you dress warmly - winter after all. And take with you colored fleece blankets - firstly, you will not freeze like that, secondly, the blanket easily becomes a knight's cloak, a royal mantle, a wizard's cape walking behind a star, or even a curtain on the stage. Crowns and tiaras can be worn right over the cap.

Or maybe you will choose a family look - the same clothes or accessories for the whole company?

One of our fellow gardeners and a nature lover, knowing that I am a fan of winter and summer fishing and hiking at any time of the year, everyone asks me to write about it. True, this year I was busy and did not go on winter fishing yet. Hunt, I confess, I do not like. Is that a walk in the woods was chosen - on skis, and even without. But as a connoisseur of culinary delights, I cannot help asking those who go fishing, hunting, walking or hiking - maybe even with their wives and children: a how long have you gathered and will you need a snack?  And something to offer you. To be honest, I love hiking and picnics, especially winter ones.

In the "trip by car"

Faina Ranevskaya, to put it mildly, did not like ice ballet and field hockey. And I do not like going by car. That is, I feel the same way as Faina Georgievna. We go to walk: “movement is life”. Therefore, they put the car in a village with friends - and ahead, at least 15-20 kilometers, to some secret or, on the contrary, popular and picturesque place: overlooking an ancient temple or lake, a beautiful mountain or hill.

Build a fortress or play hockey, ski, dawn and sunset from the top to admire. The main thing is a good knowledge of the route, because it would be nice to go home on time too: a tent overnight in winter requires special knowledge and practice.

But everything can be overpowered by a person who has winter only on the calendar, and in his heart - always spring or summer, plus there are experienced friends!

Necessary equipment

Driving in the cold winter air, or overcoming obstacles — through untouched snow or fun, light skiing, on foot, or on wide, camus-padded hunting skis — requires energy in any case. You can recharge it only if you eat something.

Well, here you have to start advice: dry frozen forest burns beautifully. Unfortunately. It is better to use a tourist primus, checking the ignition temperature of the fuel. And if you start to make a fire, then ... what-what-what? Thermos and butter ...? - No, of course, it is possible and so. An experienced person will have enough pieces of bread with bacon and chocolates. But we go camping trip. So, it is necessary to prepare. Gathering seriously, with an overnight stay, we take hatchet:

  Can take bow saw:

  Or folding:

  And further! The knife should be in every adult - from 12 years. Although here as someone who brought up and adapted ...

  There are quite good, sometimes very useful combined pocket tools:

And a piece of polyethylene, 6-8 square meters. And ... but next time, friends!

Chill - in a bottle!

In the once-popular book “Lectures of Mr. Pouff on Kitchen Art” (and under the pseudonym, this was a philosopher, composer and critic, writer and journalist, inventor and popularizer of science, a contemporary of Alexander Pushkin, Vladimir Fedorovich Odoyevsky), read the quote from the great French culinary specialist Antoine Karema: “I prepared for one sailor, whose stomach could not carry ordinary ship food, bottles with pure jelly ... up to 50 spoons of thick jelly per bottle. Each spoon, dissolved in a plate of water, gave a wonderful broth. In addition, the jelly could be consumed simply with bread. ” Well, how to use jelly just with bread, we already know. But is it convenient to carry a heavy bottle with you? Can and in the bottle, like this:

And then we need a fire or a primus stove, but the most important thing is this item. He will make us tea, soup, and a lot of useful things!

And what to add to the brawn?

First of all at home, in advance, we will tom beet, cabbage, pepper, all this with onions. Let cool - and in the container. We already have brawn. Dissolve it in the right quantity in a cup of boiling water, add a vegetable mixture - and get marvelous winter hot marching soup, just do not forget the spoons and bowls!

Hot food in the winter in the fresh air - fishing, hunting or hiking - has no price at all, and if it is high in calories and nutritious, then there are no words. The fact is that in 10 minutes of walking in the frost a person loses about 100 calories. Go to the place sometimes much longer. And so exercise, and even frost slowly steals calories. And vodka will only warm you first, and then freeze them ... So borscht-aspic will be simply irreplaceable.

Lithuanian Bread

Once upon a time, Lithuanian peasants took special bread to hunt and logging. Now almost everybody has a bread maker, and there is definitely an oven and a form in every home. Well, if so - printers at the ready! Print the recipe of the old Lithuanian bread, giving strength and warming in any frost.

First: remember that baking science-  this is the science of proportions. And if it says in a “teaspoon” recipe, it means a measuring spoon, and no other. Take one and a half measuring spoons of dry high-speed yeast, no more and no less. If we are talking about flour, then we will need 170 grams. Weigh the scales: allowable error in plus or minus 5 gr. So, rye flour - 170 gr. Measure off exactly 230 ml of waterwhose temperature should be 20-25 degrees. We mix everything up: this is how we make a sponge. Let stand.

Oparah grown up? Very good. Take a sieve, gently sift 270 gr wheat bakery flour -   exactly bakery, so on the package and should be marked - and add to the dough. Salt  (1.5 tsp), 70 ml of kefir  or sour milk, 2-3 minced garlic cloves, black and red pepper, cardamomfinely chopped (diced 5-7 mm) simple rustic fat  and 1 tbsp. honey- add everything and start kneading dough. We knead like a man, firmly, and leave for a couple of hours.

If there is a form, then we coat it with vegetable oil, but not - we mold the bread with our hands and make several cuts with a knife on the surface, otherwise our whole construction will burst and burn.

Who has a bread maker, he can look through the manual for the programs: there is a suitable one there. And the oven should be warmed up to two hundred degrees. We grease bread with a whipped egg - and in the oven! On 30-40 minutes.

Then, taking the bread, wrap it in a towel and about half an hour do not touch: inside it are the most important fermentation processes! Going to try earlier - get porridge in the crust.

But if everything is done correctly, then this bread will saturate for half a day with one piece! But who will hold on and won't take the second? I have not seen such people, well, except that now I eat one by one, I’m used to it, although I don’t get tired to admire, I’m just not being greedy. A bread maker - well, the thing is convenient, and most importantly - it takes less time, although it also has its drawbacks. But the standard oven from the stove has more. And if there is a village, and there is a stove, and a grandmother, who will tell ... Experts have to believe!

And drink?

With hunger will not die. But now I want to drink. Do not carry a thermos with you: break it again. We already have a kettle - an old copper kettle that will boil in 15 minutes on a decent camping stove. And besides - and feed soup from aspic, and give the whole company some tea, coffee or cocoa. In short, just a song. But we have for you another surprise from our world-wide international cuisine.

Mongolian? Yes. Buryat? Also. Tuvinsky? Again guessed. Kalmyk? - again to the point!

Have some tea!

It’s good to have a couple of plastic milk bottles with you. But you can take powdered milk. And melted butter - necessarily, a hundred grams. And a piece of Kalmyk tea tile. It is also called “green”, but in some places it has been preserved in a real, bearish-brown color, in huge tiles. Less and less, really. But there is.

So, 75 grams of tea tiles 1 glass of waterbring to a boil, pour in 4 cups milk  and add a teaspoon of salt, a handful - pieces 10 - peppercorns, spices (cloves will do, nutmeg). The traditional recipe does not recommend putting sugar or honey in Kalmyk tea. But who will forbid us?

After this drink it becomes easier to breathe, it will not allow a cold and headache to break out. But it is worth remembering that you can sweat from it.

NB!

In general, in any campaign, not even winter, dry socks and a pair of dry T-shirts will not interfere.

And still it is necessary to have a newspaper with you, and better a few. Read, broaden your horizons, for example: "Similarity collapse, Pupkina street ...". No, of course, not behind this! Fell into the creek? In the water on the shore? - Immediately put the victim on a well-folded backpack:

  Or (if you decided to sit in the forest a little longer and there was not too lazy to carry with you so many, in general, not very heavy objects) here is a chair like this:

  We make a fire, newspapers - in shoes, socks are carefully dried (and not burned). By the way, you can wash socks in the snow as well as in the water, if someone did not know. And again: at temperatures below 20 degrees below zero, wet socks should be changed immediately!

Decided to stay in the woods?

Or you suddenly caught bad weather? Well, if with a tent, it is better to have such a device in it:

  Under the tent place, distribute the fir paws, not sparing. Such a wonderful object as a tourist rug (aka “skin”, aka karemat) is also useful:

  Since you decided to spend the night in the forest, you need lanterns - big ones - two of them, say:

  And the individual - each. Like these ones:

And what about no souvenirs?

The best souvenir is a photograph, but the camera in the cold quickly becomes capricious: either a card, or a battery, then a bird, or a long-distance vehicle. The way out is simple: a vest with pockets under a sweater and a maximum of small spare batteries and cards with you!

Well, as without pictures for memory? What to tell friends?

Guitars out of fashion almost out, but in the cold and not play. There are special technical devices and mobile phones with the function of the transmitter. Set up a small but loud receiver for any noise, turn on the transmitter function - and pleasant quiet music around the fire is provided.

A man who is able to arrange such a romantic trip for a girl and who has a girl who is not afraid to go with him is a lucky one. But in the winter in the forest two or even three couples are lucky with experience. Note: not without experience said! Go to the kitchen, to the store, soon the weekend! And girls do not like to wait!

On the ski trail

Is the route familiar? Fine. Is the distance great? Kilometers forty? Fine. Is ski trail everywhere? Also good. Does the phone catch everywhere? Not? But the radio - in any sports store consultant will give you all the information about the reliability and number of channels - a very useful thing, useful. Then go ahead! And in order to back up strength, enough of a piece of bread with bacon and chocolates. Do not take sneakers: you will grow fat!

Well, a couple of words

So why do you need polyethylene? You make it out of it, if the wind blows, the screen reflecting the heat of the fire you have set at the place where you will throw fir paws in order not to sit on the snow. Fix the screen on the poles, which are cut right there in the forest and reinforce between the two barrels with tape-tape. ABOUT! And I forgot something, see how it happens! But this is the next time in detail. And if you need to say a few words about the updates and "old-fashioned" equipment, write in the comments! And no problems. Yes, I myself will gladly learn from others.

Winter picnic - a great pastime, if properly organize the process.

A picnic is a wonderful option to relax at any time of the year. This is an opportunity to get some fresh air, enjoy the scenery and, for a short time, turn away from everyday problems. But winter is a rather severe time of year. Weather conditions in winter require a special approach to organizing such an event.

TO winter picnic  you need to prepare thoroughly. It is important to think in advance about the place and time of its holding, to prepare all the necessary equipment and, of course, not to forget about drawing up the menu.

How to choose a place?

Snow-covered nature is a fabulous sight. But walking on such a winter fairy tale is fraught with difficulties and not everyone can do it. To avoid problems with the delivery to the parking lot, it is better to choose relatively easily accessible places for a picnic. You should not go deep into the forest in an unfamiliar area. Leave the search for unexplored places for a warmer season.

Do not go through the snowdrifts, do not come close to the cliffs. Do not go out on the ice, falling into the icy water in the winter is not only unpleasant, but also deadly.

Calculate the time of a picnic so that you have time to complete the entire planned program of the event before dark.

If you plan to combine a picnic with skiing or sledding, think in advance where and how you can do this and prepare the necessary equipment.

Clothing and equipment

To spend the whole day in the nature in winter, you need to be seriously equipped. Try to dress so that it is not too hot when moving, but in order not to freeze when you are in place.

Remember that it is important to keep your feet warm. To achieve this, wear loose shoes that you can wear warm socks. In winter, it is best to dress in layers. The more layers of clothing will be on you, there will be warmer. After all, between the clothes formed layers of air that heat. It is preferable to wear things from natural fabrics: cotton and wool.

For winter time  well suited ski suits that are not blown, keep warm and at the same time quite comfortable, because they do not hinder movement.

If you plan an active pastime, do not forget to take skis, sleds, sled. And of course you should not forget about food. Being in the open air in frost stimulates the appetite, and what a picnic without tasty food!

Picnic food

In order for the picnic to go off with a bang, you need to think about your daily bread in advance. Take tea or coffee in a thermos. Hot drinks will come in handy. You can make a fire and "cook tea", for this, do not forget to bring a cauldron. Use drinking water from home.

Some food can be cooked at home. Make sandwiches - they are simply necessary "for a snack." Take some fruit with you. But the kebab at a winter picnic is quite appropriate, and cooking it in winter is even nicer than in summer. For its preparation you will need a brazier and skewer, coal and firewood, as well as pre-pickled meat.

Any dishes that you have already tried on the nature in the summer can be prepared in the winter. But remember that their cooking time at low temperatures will be slightly longer.

Do not forget also forks, spoons, plates, napkins, garbage bags.

Bonfire in winter: be careful!

Bonfire in the winter is a special treat, but do not forget that fire can cause burns. In winter, you often want to warm your hands over a fire or bask in a tin cup of tea. But from the cold hands lose their sensitivity, and you may not feel that you are too close to the fire or have taken a too hot mug. As a result, you can "earn" burns.

Alcohol warm?

For many of us, rest is associated with compulsory drinking. But if you are going on a picnic in the cold, it is worth considering whether you really need strong drinks?

After drinking alcohol, the near-surface vessels of the body expand, blood rushes to the skin and it seems to us that we are warming up. But this feeling is deceptive, in fact, at this time the body actively releases heat to the external environment. At the same time, the real perception of the environment is lost. It seems that already not so cold. At such times, the danger of getting burned by the fire or getting frostbite increases.

In the process of frostbite, we feel numbness and tingling in the affected areas. But under the influence of alcohol, we can not notice the signals that the body gives us. And this is fraught with serious consequences.

If you can’t do without alcoholic beverages, reduce their use in the cold as much as possible. And remember, the stronger the frost, the more serious the consequences of drinking can be.

Attention weather!

Fresh air is always beneficial. The charge of vivacity after outdoor recreation is long enough. But under some weather conditions picnic better to postpone. If the window is less than -15, fog, strong wind, snowstorm, then the event is better to postpone to the onset of more favorable conditions. Do not put yourself at risk, it is better to wait for the good weather and make the picnic a success “for all 100”!