Picnic Recipes: 25 Family-Friendly Summer Meals, Snacks and Desserts

Celebrate picnic season with PBS Parents’ Kitchen Explorers collection of simple and simply delicious family-friendly recipes. From awesome Asian Noodle Salad to marvelous Marinated Grilled Chicken to famous Four-Ingredient Peanut Butter Cookies, this book’s recipes will be a picnic-pleaser! For more Kitchen Explorers recipes for every season, be sure to visit pbsparents.org.

 

Text and Photographs provided by: Alice Currah, publisher of the popular food blog, SavorySweetLife.com, and author of the cookbook: "SAVORY SWEET LIFE: 100 Delicious Recipes for Every Family Occasion" (William Morrow/Harper Collins June 2012) and Aviva Goldfarb, author and founder of The Six O'Clock Scramble®, a seasonal online weekly menu planner and cookbook (St. Martin's Press, 2006). Her latest cookbook is "SOS! The Six O'Clock Scramble to the Rescue: Earth-Friendly Kid-Pleasing Dinners for Busy Families."

 

PBS Parents is a trusted resource that’s filled with information on child development and early learning. The site features hundreds of family-friendly recipes and easy-to-make crafts, too. It also serves as a window to the world of PBS KIDS, offering access to educational activities inspired by PBS KIDS programs. 

 

PBS Parents empowers parents as they prepare their children for success in school – and in life.