To create a cheeseboard for our "date night" ?

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Dh and I are having a "date night" once dc have gone to bed and I'm putting together a cheeseboard. So I got everything today when I was shopping.
6 different cheeses, crackers, fruits, nuts, chilli jam, fig jam, and then I also got some meats for the side. Salami, pastrami etc

I was on the phone to my sister, who said and I quote "isn't that a bit excessive given the current situation?!"

Aibu to think we can still enjoy our fave foods/dishes if I can find them!?

@l8toys of course i do!! And manchego cheese with coffee ground and sprinkled over it....yum yum!

Omg can I come to your house?! Sounds ideal! Please just enjoy yourselfI! I hate cooking and you've given me a great idea for an easier meal than cooking for seven (4 adults, 3 kids) in lockdown that would be so much nicer to prepare!

Sounds lovely. DH and I are having a Chinese tonight. Roast on sunday. We will also have wine. You can eat what ever you want if you can find it in the supermarket.

Awaah I'm so glad some of you are going to do it too!! Enjoy!

Tell me more about your cheese? I need you to describe it all in pornographic detail because I have no cheese and I am suffering from Envy

Get some fruit cake in, goes great with cheese.

And you need at least one smoked cheese.

@Stickybeaksid well there's
Manchego
A blue cheese
Brie
A smoked cheese
And Wensleydale with cranberries

Must get kids to bed...🤣

OLIVES

OP your sister is just jealous. Enjoy, with no regrets!

Eating nice food is one of the only pleasures we have left! Your sister IBU.

Eat the cheese 🧀 🧀🧀

Life’s for enjoying...we aren’t all dead yet!

Sounds amazing! Loving your thinking. I don’t understand your sisters point. Make sure you enjoy!

She is being ridiculous. Enjoy.

Walking about feeling deprived and miserable (about things that can easily be made right) isn't going to make things better for anyone else!

Sadly, avoiding cheese - chocolate - wine - pate etc. isn't going to create more space or equipment in our NHS hospitals nor will it hasten a cure for the virus.

Enjoy your eve.

I see much confusion on MN. The question is whether the trip to the shop is essential, not whether the items purchased are ALL essential.

Buy cheese as part of a regular grocery shop - fill your boots.

Go on a special trip just to buy naice cheese - not essential.

I love this idea though

YABU obviously you should only ne consuming gruel sawdust and dead flies....

Frivolity be damned

YABVVVVVU because now I urgently require cheese, and frankly all I've got is a Camembert for dinner tomorrow night.

Your cheeseboard sounds amazing - and it's little treats like that which will keep all of us sane as we try to get through this. Enjoy every last bit of it.

I was on the phone to my sister, who said and I quote "isn't that a bit excessive given the current situation?!"

YABU.
Didn't you get the memo - you're only allowed dry crackers.
Maybe a bit of hard cheddar at the back of your fridge if you can find it.
Not all your figs and fancy ways.

This is sarcasm.
YANBU and your sister's a knob.

No of course that's not extravagant. I got us a M&S Indian takeaway tonight for all 4 of us. Butter chicken, naan break, onion bhajis and some really spicy chicken (had to cook our own rice as they had run out). If you can't have a good night in what can you do?!

GrumpiestOldWoman says it well.

No problem with what you've done, enjoy. Am a tad jealous.

ooh a cheese board...yum...manchego is good personally i like picos d europa too and membrillo

I remember trying to explain to DD, how I always loved Christmas as a child because we could get satsumas.

Savour every mouthful, OP. I have pointed out to my family of hoovers that we need to eat some of the nicer things a bit slower.

We have a few local cheesemakers and an enterprising set of delivery people, so I think we will be ok for cheese. We used to have a couple of markets, brilliant delis and Ocado (oh the joy of not having to visit a supermarket - how I miss delivery slots) but many are deciding to cease trading. I suspect that our diet will be a bit blander by the summer.

Me (with a fridge full of cheese), I am craving a shellfish platter. I'll have to make do with vacu-packed mussels for now.

You need chaorce.

Other than that- can I come over?