Picnic Essentials for Your Best Summer Picnic Possible
Updated by Jaime Netzer
If there's one positive side effect of this pandemic, it just might be the push outdoors: who wouldn't appreciate the reminder that making an intentional effort to live seasonally can help us savor every moment of each year? Winter is for cuddling in and keeping warm, but when it's warm outside, it's in your best benefit to squeeze every ounce of sunshine you can out of each day — and as a bonus, getting outside (done right) can be one of the safest ways to still enjoy yourself while creating some quality time with your loved ones during COVID-19.
In fact, in a study {target="blank"} of 100 cases in Japan, scientists found that people were 20 times more likely to catch COVID-19 indoors than outside. All that to say: what better way to live up summer 2025 than with a perfectly planned, socially distanced perfect picnic?
We've got a few ideas for picnicking you'll remember as best practices (think: don't forget the trash bag ), but we've also got a few suggestions we hope are new to you. So grab your bottle openers, your paper towels, your cheese boards and your friends: it's time to plan your next picnic!
Picnicking in 2025: Keeping it Clean & Germ-Free
By now, hopefully everyone has become the experts we always should've been at handwashing and hand sanitizer. Being outdoors will necessarily mean you'll likely have to rely on the latter at your picnic site, but that doesn't mean you can't use alternate tools to get the potato salad off of your sticky fingers.
