SHOPPING LIST: Cooking Skills: Cheese and Party Snacks 1, Chapter 6 (A Party Spread)

Most of the shopping is whatever you choose to make from the earlier chapters. Check the chapter shopping lists. Extra items: crudités, a pasteurised dip, serving boards, ice packs for travelling, and small cards for labelling.

A party spread for 8
[ ] 1 batch a cheese board for eight: four cheeses, 600 g in all (Cooking Skills: Cheese and Party Snacks 1, chapter 1)
[ ] 1 batch homemade crackers (chapter 2), or a mix of shop-bought ones
[ ] 1 batch two chutneys or jams (chapter 3)
[ ] 1 batch pigs in blankets and a vegetarian alternative (chapter 5)
[ ] 1 batch sausage rolls or cheese and onion pinwheels (chapter 5)
[ ] 1 batch baked camembert (chapter 4)
[ ] 400 g crudités (carrot, cucumber, pepper, celery) with a pasteurised dip
[ ] 1 handful grapes, apples, nuts for the board

A cheese-and-cracker snack box (1 portion)
[ ] 1 handful crackers or oatcakes
[ ] 40 g hard cheese, in slices
[ ] 1 handful grapes
[ ] 1 tbsp chutney in a small lidded pot
[ ] 1 handful nuts (check allergies) or celery and carrot sticks
[ ] 1 reusable box with a lid

A party buffet plan (10 to 12 portions)
[ ] 1 batch a make-ahead cold platter: cheese board, crudités, olives, pickles
[ ] 1 batch a hot station: baked camembert, sausage rolls, pigs in blankets (kept in a low oven)
[ ] 1 batch a sweet table: fruit, nuts and a plate of dried fruit and dark chocolate (optional)
[ ] 1 batch a drinks table: water, juice and non-alcoholic punch

For the experiments
[ ] Cheeses, crackers and chutneys from the earlier chapters
[ ] Small cards and a pen for labelling