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If you want to enjoy a combination of picnics and restaurant meals on your
trip, you'll save money by eating in restaurants at lunch (when there's usually
a special and food is generally cheaper) and picnicking for dinner.
Scandinavia has colorful markets and economical supermarkets. Picnic-
friendly mini-markets at gas and train stations are open late. Samples of pic-
nic treats:
Wasa
cracker bread (Sport is my favorite; Ideal
flatbrød
is ideal
for munchies), packaged meat and cheese, brown “goat cheese”
(geitost),
drinkable yogurt, freshly cooked or smoked fish from markets, fresh fruit
andvegetables,lingonberries,squeezetubesofmustardandsandwichspreads
(shrimp, caviar), rye bread, and boxes of juice and milk. Grocery stores sell
a cheap, light breakfast: a handy yogurt with cereal and a spoon. Most places
