Cheese for Dinner

Well it's that time of the year.  I can feel it in the air.  The leaves are falling and the anticipation of the holidays are just around the corner.  It's Halloween and I am ready to start my Holiday planning!  There's just something about the holidays and how food always brings people together.  I like to say I'm a professional snacker, because in all honesty, I could skip the main meal all together and just snack for days!  I am a natural grazer at heart!  

I love the nights where I don't feel like cooking and I ask my kids, "Can we just have snacks for dinner?"  It is always a cheerful response and more often than not, they want to help make it.  I love that my boys love cheese as much as I do!  Plus, it's a great way to spend time together, so it's a win-win.  

Our kid friendly charcuterie boards have definitely been interesting some of the time AND there usually needs to have some sort of random candy thrown in there, but you only live once.  

My youngest has mastered the art of using savory and sweet items together with various types of cheeses.  He could eat goat cheese with some homemade jelly on a wheat thin all day!  My oldest on the other hand is not as exploratory and could eat a whole block of cheddar cheese if I let him!  All in all, we usually try to find a balance of cheese, crackers or bread, some type of meat, jelly and some sort of fruit or vegetable.  We do like to add hummus sometimes, I feel it is a bit random, mostly because I can't get my eleven year old to even look at a vegetable, but he will request hummus, so on it goes!  By the way hummus is so good with pita chips, naan bread or pretzels.  If you haven't tried it yet, you need to, it is a game changer.