Picnic Recipes for Every Kind of Occasion

Treat your sweetie to a day in the park with refreshing shrimp salad, an adorable charcuterie plate and a romantic fondue dessert.

Complete your perfect park picnic with this easy-to-pack Grilled Shrimp Salad.

Grilled Shrimp Salad

Cheese, salami, olives, a baguette, rosé wine, chocolate sauce and cookies.

Pack a small cutting board and a pairing knife. Because who wants to saw through salami with a plastic knife?

Heat store-bought hot fudge sauce in this votive-powered fondue set by Mastrad, then dip your favorite cookies ($15, chefsresource.com).

Nothing goes better with music than a delicious meal and a cool beer!

Grilled Pork with Rice & Quinoa Salad is easy to pack in individual portions, which means no extra serving utensils or platters required!

Grilled Pork with Rice & Quinoa Salad

Pickles, beer, fruit tart, heavy cream and crystallized ginger.

Each Kip It Cutlery To Go set gives you two handles and mix-and-match heads. Snap on a fork, knife, spoon -- or chopsticks! ($6 for a set, surlatable.com)

Save room in your cooler by packing your beers in a Chill It six-pack freezable bag. ($15, chillitbags.com)

Jazz up a bakery tart or cake with a dollop of cream whipped with chopped crystallized ginger.

Catch some waves and refuel on delicious fried chicken, refreshing coleslaw and sweet iced tea. Don't forget the sunscreen!

Tossing the chicken with salt and seasonings, then refrigerating it overnight, infuses it with flavor all the way to the bone. Fry it up the next morning and chill it until you're ready to go!

Do-Ahead Fried Chicken

Coleslaw, corn bread, honey, butter, cayenne, sweet iced tea, berries, whipped cream and vanilla wafer cookies.

Swap out paper plates for ones made from bamboo: They're pretty and compost-friendly. ($10 for 8; bambuhome.com)

For a quick dessert, layer your favorite berries in small jars with whipped cream and vanilla wafers.

Extra credit: Before you pack the butter, mix it with honey and cayenne.

Don't have a grill at home? You've got the perfect excuse to get out to a beach or park that does!

Not loving the grungy grates on that public barbecue? This Grilled Salmon with Mint Tzatziki gets prepped in a foil packet that you can toss right on the grill.

Grilled Salmon with Mint Tzatziki

Stuffed grape leaves, tabbouleh, pita bread, Greek salad, white wine, lemon-flavored seltzer, lemons, figs and baklava.

Skip the paper towels; bring a perforated roll of washable, reusable MyDrap green-striped cotton napkins instead. ($30 for a roll of 12, amazon.com)

The Hammered Acrylic Bowl has a bottom compartment for ice to keep your greens cool. ($40, surlatable.com)

Turn your white wine into a refreshing spritzer by adding lemon-flavored seltzer, ice and a lemon slice.

Reward your effort with a hearty sandwich, energy-enhancing hummus and a sweet chocolate treat!

This New Orleans-style marinated sandwich can be made the night before. It just gets better as it sits!

Muffuletta with Artichoke Tapenade

Carrot and celery sticks, hummus, potato chips, orange slices and herbs (for flavoring water), grapes and chocolate bars.

Fill an interlocking GoStak container with salt, pepper, hummus and paprika-spiked EVOO; Drizzle the oil on the hummus before serving. ($9 and up, blenderbottle.com)

Add fresh herbs and citrus slices to your water. The better it tastes, the more you'll drink!