Top 8 grazing board ideas

The perfect picky tea is all about assembling a mixture of flavours, colours, shapes and textures. Theme your board around a cuisine you love, whether it's Spanish-inspired tapas bites, a Greek mezze-style feast, a Mediterranean charcuterie board or traditional British picnic faves. Whatever you fancy, at M&S, we're the home of iconic picky bits to create your dream grazing spread.

Add fresh fruit and crudités for freshness and colour, crunchy crackers for texture, and your favourite wine or fizz to sip alongside.

Ready to get grazing? Discover some of our favourite grazing board ideas.

• Make a quick potato salad by tossing boiled new potatoes in our Collection Dill and Mustard Sauce.

• Pile Cantabrian Anchovy Fillets onto toasted soda bread with lots of butter.

• Make pink beetroot eggs by hard-boiling four eggs. Add 100g cooked beetroot to a container with 75ml red wine vinegar and the zest and juice of a lemon. Peel the eggs and add to the container, then leave in the fridge for 1 hour to marinate.

• Arrange everything on a board with Sweet Cured Hot Smoked Mackerel, Beetroot, Horseradish and Dill Smoked Salmon, Baby Cucumbers, sliced radishes, lemon wedges and fresh dill.

Give your festive nibbles night a glow-up with a sharing board made up of sweet and salty treats. Pick up your faves in the Foodhall, assemble on a board and let everyone dig in.

• Festive Snowy Pretzels

• Milk Chocolate and Cinnamon Tortilla Rolls

• Collection 100% Extra Virgin Olive Oil Crisps with Lobster

• Pigs in Blankets Flavour Combo Mix

• Lightly Salted Tortilla Stars

• Maple Caramel Chocolate Trees

• All Butter Sticky Toffee Pudding Dunkers

• Percy Pig Merry Percymas sweets

• Gooey Middle Cherry Teacakes

No one can resist a platter loaded with fluffy pancakes and sweet and savoury toppings. Serve up this brunch grazing board when you next have friends coming over and watch it disappear.

• To make your pancakes, prep one box of American Style Pancake Mix according to the packaging instructions.

• Whip up a maple-spiced butter by beating 100g salted butter with 1 tsp M&S Everything Sugar N Spice and 1 tsp maple syrup.

• Fill our ready-made sweet pancakes with Collection Hazelnut Creme and Collection Cherries in Kirsch.

• Add some irresistible spreads, like our Custard Cream Spread and PB and J spread.

• Add savoury toppings, such as smoked salmon, New York Deli Style Cream Cheese Spread, Antipasto Reserve and Pickled Sweet Dill Cucumbers.

• Serve with fresh fruit, sliced avocado and tomatoes.

• Spread our Collection Woodfired Plain Pizza Base with Pizza Sauce, and top with mozzarella then bake. Let everyone in the family choose their own toppings – try Chargrilled Artichokes, olives or red peppers.

• Bake a batch of fresh chocolate chip cookies using some handy Belgian Chocolate Chunk Cookie Dough.

• Serve with tortilla chips and dips – everyone will love our Topped Chicken Shawarma Dip.

• Don't forget the popcorn!