Top 7 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.

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 festive 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.

For the ultimate low-fuss, high-impact grazing board, head to our deli aisle to pick up flavour-packed mezze bites. Think smoky Grilled Turkish Olives, sweet Orange Sunburst Peppers, vibrant Dressed Salsa Verde Chickpeas and Pesto Houmous. Just add toasted ciabatta for dunking and you're good to go.

• 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.

• Drizzle Marmite Caramel Sauce over popcorn.

• 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.

Whether you're putting together a plate of expertly sourced charcuterie, a next-level cheeseboard, or a Christmas party food spread in front of the telly (did someone say Snowman Bao Buns?), at M&S, we're the home of picky bits. See what's new in the Foodhall below and get planning your most delicious party season yet.