Trader Joe’s Charcuterie Board

Showing you all my favorite finds from Trader Joe’s to make an epic charcuterie board!

I LOVE a good charcuterie board and Trader Joe’s is my favorite place to go to stock up on the best snacks for making an amazing snack board! In this post I’m sharing my favorite finds to include on a good board. For me it’s all about balance. Balance in flavors (sweet, salty, savory), textures (crunchy, smooth, crispy) and color (crackers a kind of just brown and so I like to have little pops of color from fruit and on this board I used roasted red peppers for a pop of color!

My favorite Trader Joe’s charcuterie board finds

So it’s all about balance. Most snack boards or charcuterie boards of course include cheese and some type of bready item like crackers or maybe some toasted baguette slices. I even like to use the plantain chips from Trader Joe’s sometimes, even though in this particular board I didn’t.

Trader Joe’s Crackers

I went with the Fig & Olive Crisps and Multigrain Pita Bite Crackers this time! The pita bite ones also come in a non-multi grain flavor but I prefer the multigrain. I love love love one of these with a little goat cheese and fig jam, which we will get to later in this post!

The Fig & Olive Crisps are a nice blanace of savory and sweet and have actual olive and fig pieces inside.

Cheese for Trader Joe’s Charcuterie

I know cheese might be the most important element in a charcuterie board but I put the crackers first because they are really just as foundational as cheese!

This time I went with the marinated mozzarella balls, jack cheese sticks (I cut them into cubes!) and I always get the chevre honey goat cheese!

Meat

I didn’t get a photo of the salami! So sorry, but I always get the Uncured Applewood Smoked Salami. There’s no nitrates and it just has great flavor. It’s also sliced very thin. I love wrapping a cube of jack cheese in a piece of salami!

Trader Joe’s has a lot of other deli meats that are great for snack boards so feel free to mix it up and add more meats if you like!

Fruit

I love the Seedless Grape Medley from Trader Joe’s. It’s just nice to have variety, ya know? I almost always include figs on my charcuterie board if they are available. They’re just classy and go great with goat cheese! And speaking of figs and goat cheese, check out my Fig & Honey Goat Cheese Bites for a super easy and delicious appetizer/snack!

My other favorite fruits to include are the dried apricots from Trader Joe’s, and other dried fruits like raisins. I know a lot of people like to put berries on charcuterie boards but I don’t know why that’s just not my jam.

Nuts

Candied pecans are a must for me! Gotta keep the sweet and salty balance going. I also used the Roasted and Unsalted Fancy Mixed Nuts. I got unsalted nuts to stay balanced. Olives are salty, salami is salty, jack cheese is kinda salty. Just make sure they are roasted. Unroasted nuts are no fun.

Veggies

Okay so I don’t know if olives are classified as a veggie but I’m including them here anyways. For this board, I used the Greek Kalamata Olives and Pimento Stuffed Green Olives which aren’t pictured here because I already had a jar from a different brand. But you can of course find green olives at your Trader Joes!

I also included the Fire Roasted Red Peppers for a pop of color and I really liked having it! These also go well with the goat cheese.

Spreads

I love Trader Joe’s Fig Butter! Like I said, a little dollop of these with some chevre honey goat cheese on a multigrain cracker (jeez that’s a mouthful!) is so so good. You can mix it up with other jams and marmalades. I also love apricot jam with cheese and crackers!

Trader Joe’s charcuterie shopping list

Here’s a shopping list for ya! I tried to put everything in order of how most stores are set up so hopefully that helps! And keep in mind that these are just my favorite items to get. You could also just use these categories as a guide. Find a few things from each category and see what you come up with. No two charcuterie boards are exactly the same and that’s the beauty of them!

Fruit

• Seedless Grape Medley
• Figs (any kind they have available!)

Meat

• Uncured Applewood Smoked Salami

Cheese

• Chevre Honey Goat Cheese
• Moneterey Jack Cheese Sticks
• Marinated Fresh Mozzarella Balls

Crackers

• Multi-grain Pita Bite Crackers
• Fig & Olive Crisps

Nuts

• Candied Pecans
• Roasted and Unsalted Fancy Mixed Nuts

Olives/Veggies

• Greek Kalamata Olives
• Green Pimento Stuffed Olives
• Fire Roasted Red Peppers

Spreads

• Fig Butter

How to build your Trader Joe’s Charcuterie Board

I think the beauty of charcuterie boards is that no two are exactly alike! My main advice is have fun with it, don’t put too much pressure on yourself to make a perfect charcuterie board. If what you are putting on the board is tasty and pretty already, it’s going to look great no matter what! But here are few things I like to do to make it easier.

Hardware

Choose a nice sturdy board, it doesn’t do much good to have one with elaborate designs, it’s going to be covered initially anyways. I have just a plain wooden board that I love.

It’s also helpful to have some small bowls for things like olives, marinated cheeses, toothpicks and jams.

Arrangement

Start with bowls and larger food items first. I put my bowls down and the cheese first, then built around those.

Once you have those landmarks down, you can wrap things like crackers and nuts around them.

Grapes or other smallish fruits are great for filling in little gaps around the board. This also helps tie it together when you have one element that is repeated in different places.

I hope this helps you build a better Trader Joe’s Charcuterie Board! Have fun and enjoy!

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