Cheese board advice please!

[oneowlgirl]

I don't like cheese, so don't eat it, but would like to do a nice cheeseboard for my DH as he loves cheese - any recommendations? All major supermarkets are close by, so can easily get to Tesco, Sainsburys, Morrisons, Aldi etc. TIA!

caboc, roqueforte, red leicester

Jarlsberg and cambozola are our must haves

I always like Cornish yarg on mine, and DH likes Roquefort. I recall someone buying Tesco Finest cheeses once for a group Christmas meal, and me thinking they were good. Not everyone sells yarg though; it's a nicely flavoured, creamy/hard cheese. I eat the nettle covering but some cut it off.

Also like Jarlsberg - lovely and nutty flavoured. A good Camembert or Brie is important to me - a nice ripe one will feel like an eyeball (I mean, the resistance you feel when you push gently on your eyelid).

When we are putting together a cheese board we'll look for 3 cheeses that vary in texture and flavour. Basically a blue, a hard and a soft cheese. Great blues like - Roquefort, Stilton, Gorgonzola are pretty easy to get hold of, hard cheese - comte, has a great flavour and for the soft camembert from Normandy is usually pretty good from a supermarket. Or some goats cheese - one with a bloom or a fresher more mousse like version is pretty easy to find. I like Carrs table water for a biscuit, digestives go well with blue and strong hard cheese but not with softer cheese. You might like to add a chutney, something fruity and sweet...

Sainsburys is best for interesting cheese I reckon. Go for Chaource as an amazing alternative to Camembert, it's fabulously creamy. Blacksticks Silk or Blacksticks Blue are lovely blue cheeses and not to strong but full of flavour. Also how about a manchego for a hard cheese? I would second yarg too but as pp says not always easy to get hold of...

Am pregnant so am dreaming of the day this fantasy cheeseboard is all mine once again!

Oh and I like water biscuits and oatcakes to go with. And grapes. Aldi have some amazing "sable" grapes at the moment - they are so perfumey they are fab!

I haven't eaten cheese for two years.

Now I want a halloumi sandwich.

All of the big supermarkets do cheese selection packs. Aldi for example do this www.aldi.co.uk/en/product-range/new-year-at-aldi/cheese-crackers/cheese/product-detail-page/ps/p/specially-selected-luxury-cheese-selection/

Its easier than checking labels and descriptions. Don't forget oatcakes or crackers.

There might be a good deli near you or a cheesemongers? Have a Google they will have a good selection.

My cheeseboards have

One cheddar
One blue
One creamy
One goats cheese

Get different fancy Types of each but one off all those will give you a well rounded board.

If you wanted to do a special board don't forget fancy biscuits!

Thanks so much - really appreciate the advice as I've no idea!

Thank you all - I bought the 'ready made' cheese board from Aldi along with another cheese that I know he likes & it's gone down a storm with him! At least it seems like I've been thoughtful for Valentines (as there was no other pressie from me!)