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17 Game Day Charcuterie Board Ideas

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This football season cheer on your favorite football team and celebrate the big game with these delicious football charcuterie boards full of all your favorite things like spicy buffalo chicken wings, cheese, and fun dips. 

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You'll love a game day charcuterie board because:

  • Most of them don't require cooking, you can just enjoy the game
  • There's something for everyone on a big beautiful board
  • Easy to add sides dishes to (add platters of fries, buns, or a bowl of chips)
  • Prep ahead of time - cut cheese and make hummus the day before 
  • Simple presentation - use a big platter or a large cutting board for the base

You can make any of these boards as they are, or customize them to your needs and preferences. If you love olives more than pickles, serve a few different types of olives on your board.

Hosting a large group of people? Make a couple of different boards or make one main board and add other dishes on the side, like tortilla chips and guacamole.

Look for tortilla chips that match your favorite team - my grocery store carries blue, white, yellow, and red tortilla chips!

Creative Charcuterie Boards Inspired by Main Dishes

These boards take a creative twist on charcuterie by making popular main dishes the star of the show.

You'll find plenty of delicious finger foods, and delicious dips like hummus, ranch, and guacamole.

Try a chili board or taco board or turn your favorite game day appetizers like spicy wings into a fun game day board by offering a variety of items and arranging them on a big platter. This is a great way to level up your game day celebration.

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Mediterranean Charcuterie Board
Try a Mezze Platter with Mediterranean dips like Hummus, Moroccan Zaalouk, and Greek Tzatziki. Add keftedes meatballs, fruits, and veggies, olives, and cheese for a well-rounded board.
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A charcuterie board with assorted meats, dips, and pitas.
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Chili Board
Try this creative chili board for something different. Start with the chili and offer fun additions like cornbread, grilled cheese croutons, Cheetos, corn chips, fresh veggies, and cheese. So much fun! 
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A charcuterie board with a pot of chili, cheese, and cornbread.
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Chicken Wings Grazing Board
This board uses one of your favorite appetizers, chicken wings, in a fun way on this big board. Pack a large board with your favorite buffalo wings, and add fresh fruit, veg, and ranch dip!
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A charcuterie board with assorted chicken wings, cheese, and vegetables.
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Taco Board
Tacos, but more of them? Yes, please! Try this taco board complete with toppings like esquites, guacamole, Pico de Gallo, and piles of cheese.
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A taco charcuterie board with assorted meats, cheese, and taco shells.
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Authentic Nam Prik Ong
Style a flavorful grazing board starting with Nam Prik Ong, a Thai dip made with ground pork, tomatoes, and flavorful herbs and seasoning. Add cucumber slices, lettuce cups, and steamed green beans on the side.
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A charcuterie board with meat dip and cucumbers.
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Sweet and Salty Charcuterie Board
A departure from the traditional, this board features your favorite snacks like corn chips, pretzels, meat and cheese, pickles, almonds, M&M's, and mini smoked sausage with mustard for dipping.
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A charcuterie board with assorted meats, cheese, and crackers.
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Falafel Platter
With falafel, pita, hummus, tahini sauce, and pickled onions, I don't even need a football game on to crave this board.
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A charcuterie board with assorted meats, cheese, and crackers.

Charcuterie Boards Featuring Dips + Sauces

I'm definitely a sauce girl so these boards seem like a great fit any day of the week.

Make a homemade hummus or Tzatziki sauce to go with these boards. Try a avocado cilantro lime hummus, roasted garlic and sweet potato hummus, lemon basil hummus, or curried butternut squash hummus. 

Add a variety of your favorite dipping foods like chips, pitas, and crudités.

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Hummus Platter
This board features my favorite dip - hummus. Garnish this board with pita triangles and fresh vegetables.
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A charcuterie board with assorted dips, vegetables, and pitas.
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Southern Inspired Charcuterie Board
This southern-inspired board features black-eyed pea salsa, with smoked sausage, pimento cheese, butter crackers, and pita chips.
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A charcuterie board with assorted meats, cheese, and crackers.

Classic Cheese Boards

Need the perfect snack board? I'm all about a cheese-focused board from sharp cheddar cheese to tangy soft goat cheese.

Offer a variety of crackers with the perfect blend of gourmet cheeses or take the fun route and go with a football-shaped cheese ball. Everyone should try it once! 

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Football Cheeseball Board
Make this fun cheese board by turning a homemade cheeseball into a football shape and surrounding it with fresh fruits and vegetables, more cheese, and bite-sized soft pretzels.
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A charcuterie board with assorted meats, cheese, and crackers.
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Charcuterie Board
A classic board with cured meats, cheese, olives, honey, nuts, crackers, bread, and fig jam.
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A charcuterie board with assorted meats, cheese, and crackers.
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Meat and Cheese Board
This board is packed to the rafters with your favorite game day snacks like meat, cheese, crackers, fruits, chocolate, and jams. This mix of soft and hard cheese with baguette and crackers is sure to be a hit.
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A charcuterie board with assorted meats, cheese, and crackers.
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Gluten Free Charcuterie Board
Pair the classic meat, cheese, fruits, and nuts with gluten-free crackers and flatbread. Make sure to use a separate board for your gluten-free friends.
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A charcuterie board with assorted meats, cheese, and crackers.
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Kid-Friendly Charcuterie Board
Something special for our favorite little people, this board serves up kid-friendly flavors and textures. Save some goldfish crackers for me!
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A charcuterie board with assorted meats, cheese, and crackers.
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Antipasto Platter
Let the flavors of Italy inspire you with this board of cured meats like prosciutto, genoa, or soppressata, mozzarella balls, fig jam, cherry tomatoes, pickled asparagus, artichokes, olives, and roasted red bell peppers.
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A charcuterie board with assorted meats, cheese, and crackers.

Vegan + Vegetarian Boards

Plant-based football fans unite with these delicious boards full of a mix of fresh ingredients and your favorite game day foods like pita chips and cheese. 

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Vegan Charcuterie Board - Fruit + Veg
Take a vegan twist on charcuterie with this big beautiful board stuffed with fresh fruits and vegetables, pita chips, nuts, and small bowls of dips like hummus.
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A charcuterie board with assorted fruits, nuts, and dip.
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Vegan Charcuterie Board - Cheese + Dip
Make your game day plant-based with this big board full of vegan cheese, plant-based cold cuts, fruit, vegetables, nuts, dips, and crackers or bread.
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A charcuterie board with assorted meats, cheese, and crackers.

I hope you found a bunch of new game-day ideas on this list. Pin the image below for later. If you like this type of post, read my 18 Blackstone Breakfast Ideas blog post next for more easy family meal ideas.

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