Easy, picnic meals for bike ride

[shootingstar]

We just returned from a picnic evening meal that we made at home and carted it with us to a scenic area not far from home. There are lots of areas for us to choose. Tonight we ended up by coincidence meeting 2 different folks cycling by whom we knew since we were sitting near a popular bike route.

Evening meal was:
Couscous cooked with sundried tomatoes, onions, garlic, chopped red pepper with fresh thyme and basil.
Slice of rosemary bread with abit of feta cheese. (Couscous was not enough.)
Fresh cherries
Water

Other picnic bike meals have been:
Baguette sandwiches that we make by piling on smoked salmon, tomato and basil. Or no smoked salmon, but substitute with buffalo mozarella cheese, sliced tomatoes and basil.

Or bought sushi and sashimi which we eat within 1 hr.
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Ok,ok...these are for occasions, that you've actually planned a meal, then cycling to somewhere pleasant, get off bike and eat without rushing off to hammer on the pavement/road to finish the last leg of trip.

[surgtech1956]

Never heard of buffalo mozz cheese. How do you transport your food, strap a cooler to the bike, or backpack it, to keep it cold?

[shootingstar]

Never heard of buffalo mozz cheese. How do you transport your food, strap a cooler to the bike, or backpack it, to keep it cold?

The cheese is softer and made in balls.
We're pretty low maintenance with our picnics. The above stuff last evening was just transported in 2 cleaned yogurt plastic containers while still warm. Sits upright inside our bike panniers. We don't use a cooler for any of our pincics because we coose to make/buy and eat the food/dishes that will keep within 1 hr. after biking to the spot outdoors.

We live close to many different choice spots most of it accessible by bike routes, vistas to see mountains, ocean, beaches, waterfront, parks, gardens, etc.

This is all in downtown Vancouver.