Days out with the kids can be incredibly expensive, so avoiding eating out is one way of keeping the cost down. So I greeted the launch of Morrisons' picnic box with the beady eye of a thrifty Yorkshire dad as they sounded great value for money at £20, with enough food and drink for a family of four. Even better, they are just £15 with a More Card and we've already got one of those.
All you have to do is pop into a participating Morrisons cafe and fill out an order form and hand it to a member of staff so they can gather your food and drink selection from the shelves. Read more : The hidden Yorkshire water park tucked away in a valley that is completely free to enter I took my children, aged 10 and 12, to Morrisons in Waterloo , Huddersfield, and expected to be in and out in a few minutes as the picnic box is billed as a 'quick and easy option'. But it wasn't to be.
For a start, there weren't any order forms to hand. We asked a member of staff but had to wait around 20 minutes before we got our hands on one. I'd already complained about the delay to customer services and, after waiting patiently for what seemed like an age, we had a visit from a manager who offered us an apology and very generously gave us the picnic box on the house as a way of saying 'sorry for all the hassle'.
It took all our will power to stop ourselves diving straight into the super-heavy picnic box, but we wanted a proper day out so we headed to Hollingworth Lake Country Park in Littleborough , which .