Celebrate National Picnic Week!

This week is National Picnic Week which is the perfect opportunity to get outside with your family and friends with a picnic. Whether you go to the beach, to the local park on stay in your garden there is something so lovely about setting up a picnic and tucking into sandwiches, cakes and nibbles. What is your picnic food essential?

We got into the kitchen last week to make some homemade lemonade for our summer garden party photoshoot and it is the perfect companion to a picnic and really simple to make too!

All you need is three simple ingredients for your lemonade:
- 1 3/4 cups of white sugar
- 8 cups of water
- 1 1/2 cups of lemon juice

The simple recipe:

- In a small saucepan, combine the sugar and 1 cup of water
- Bring to the boil and stir to dissolve the sugar, allow to cool and then pop into the fridge to chill

- Juice your lemons to make 1 1/2 cups, you can leave in the pulp but remove any seeds that may be in there
- Place your lemon juice into the fridge to cool as well

- Together with the chilled sugar mixture, mix the lemon juice and your remaining 7 cups of water
- If you feel like it needs more water, just add it in
- Add slices of lemon and ice to serve chilled

The perfect picnic drink, which is great served in a dispenser so people can just help themselves! This dispenser is coming soon to Ellie Ellie!

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