Taste your way through a spectacular spectrum of delicious color! From crisp fresh veggies and juicy fruits to rich cheeses and salty meats, this Eat the Rainbow Snack Board is a treat for your eyes and your tastebuds.
Eat the Rainbow!
Isn’t it glorious? Creating this Eat the Rainbow Snack Board made me so happy! When I stepped back to look at the finished product, I was immediately taken back to grade school art class and the color wheel. Do y’all remember Roy G Biv? So fun! The brilliant kaleidoscope of colors delights the senses! And the food? So, so tasty.
The only thing better than how gorgeous it turned out is how easy it is to put together. And I’ll let you in on a little secret. Kids–even the pickiest of picky eaters–cannot help themselves around a fun food board. Just watch them try something new (but pretend not to notice or you’ll ruin it!).
Getting Fresh!
Y’all know I love to wander the grocery store. I can literally hang out there for hours exploring new foods and old favorites. Tom Thumb is like my second home. You can find all of the ingredients on this colorful board at your local Albertsons Companies store. If y’all don’t have a Tom Thumb, you probably have another Albertsons Companies store nearby (Albertsons, Safeway, ACME Markets, Jewel-Osco, Randalls, Pavilions, Shaw’s, Star Market, United Supermarkets or Vons). They’re everywhere and they’re consistently great. And their reward program, just for U®, makes deal-hunting that much more satisfying. I’m at Tom Thumb almost daily and I love the discounts on groceries and gas!
Every day ingredients (you probably already buy many of these!) that don’t cost a fortune, either. I put together a handy shopping list in the recipe card to make it even easier. And if you’re trying not to spend time in the grocery store these days, you can always add the ingredients to your online cart for Drive Up & Go™ and delivery. I love it when they make it so easy!
Build the Snack Board
First, wash and prep the fruits and vegetables. When prepping, divide the peppers, carrots, and tomatoes by color. Trim the stems off the baby broccoli, slice the cucumbers, and half the strawberries lengthwise.
Using a 20” round board, start by arranging small serving bowls of vanilla yogurt, red pepper hummus, pimento cheese, guacamole, and spinach dip on the board. You will use the remaining ingredients to create the rainbow effect, so place accordingly.
Next place the Wensleydale cranberry cheese and Kaukauna Rose white cheddar cheese on the far right of the board, as they are colored for the violet hue of the rainbow.
Now to fill in each hue of the rainbow!
Red: With the red sweet mini peppers, beet crackers, raspberries and strawberry halves, create a red hued section.
Orange: Take the cheddar cracker cuts, orange sweet mini peppers, dried apricots, sweet potato crackers, mandarin oranges, and orange baby carrots and arrange them in a stripe next to the reds.
Yellow: Place the cashews, everything crackers, yellow tomatoes, yellow carrots, and yellow sweet mini peppers next to the orange stripe.
Green: Take the sugar snap peas, dried kiwi slices, greenish cherry tomatoes, baby broccoli and cucumber slices to create the green hued section.
Indigo and Violet: To finish, use blackberries, purple baby carrots, and blueberries. Then fill in the remaining space between the cheeses with salami nuggets and purple grapes.
The Perfect Pairing
A well-chosen wine can make good food even better. But that doesn’t mean you have to spend forever in the wine aisle fretting about what pairs best with your snack board. My first rule of wine pairing? Drink what you love. If you wouldn’t drink it alone, you shouldn’t be drinking it with your food. No wine snobs here! I also like to choose a wine with a clean finish, because it won’t get in the way of enjoying the food.
Tom Thumb’s selection always delivers on drinkable, delicious wine. For this Eat the Rainbow Snack Board, I chose a 2017 Signature Reserve Russian River Valley® Chardonnay and Mazarini® Sparkling Rosé. Both light, crisp wines that go great with fresh fruits and veggies as well as the heavier meats and cheeses.
Cheers and enjoy!
If you’re inspired to make this Spring Snack Board, be sure to snap a picture and share it with me @thebakermama and @albertsons on Instagram so we can see. I love seeing how inspired and creative y’all get with the ideas and recipes I share.
xoxo,
This beautiful board was created in partnership with my friends at Albertsons Companies however thoughts and opinions are certainly my own. Thank you for supporting the brands that make The BakerMama possible.
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Eat the Rainbow Snack Board
- Prep Time: 20 minutes
- Total Time: 20 minutes
- Yield: 8 1x
Description
Taste your way through a spectacular spectrum of delicious color! From crisp fresh veggies and juicy fruits to rich cheeses and salty meats, this Eat the Rainbow Snack Board is a treat for your eyes and your tastebuds.
Ingredients
Dips/Spreads/Cheeses:
- ½ cup Signature Cafe® Pimento Cheese Dip
- ½ cup Signature Cafe® Guacamole
- ½ cup Signature Cafe® Spinach Dip
- ½ cup O Organics® Red Pepper Hummus
- ½ cup Lucerne® Vanilla Yogurt
- 1 (5.3 ounce) Wensleydale Cheese with Cranberry
- 1 (10 ounce) Kaukauna Rose White Cheddar Spreadable Cheese with Almonds
- 12 Primo Taglio® Mild Cheddar Cheese Cracker Cuts
Meats:
Crackers:
- 20 Signature Select® Everything Crackers
- 30 RW Garcia® Sweet Beet Crackers
- 30 RW Garcia® Sweet Potato Crackers
Snacks:
Fresh Fruits/Veggies:
- 1 (10 ounce) package Fresh Cut Baby Broccoli
- 1 (8 ounce) package Signature Farms® Sugar Snap Peas
- 2 (12 ounce) packages O Organics® Rainbow Baby Carrots (you will use 12 orange, 12 yellow and 12 purple)
- 1 (16 ounce) package Signature Farms® Sweet Mini Peppers (you will need 10 of each color)
- 1 to 2 (10 ounce) packages Signature Farms® Maverick Mix Cherry Tomato Medley (you will use 10 yellow and 6 greenish red)
- 1 small cucumber, sliced
- 2 mandarin oranges, peeled and separated
- 8 strawberries, halved lengthwise
- 1 cup raspberries
- ½ cup blueberries
- ½ cup blackberries
- 1 bunch red grapes
Wines:
- 1 (750 ml) bottle Mazarini® Sparkling Rose
- 1 (750 ml) bottle Signature RESERVE® Chardonnay Wine
Instructions
- Wash and prep the fruits and vegetables. When prepping, divide the peppers, carrots and tomatoes by color. Trim the stems of the baby broccoli, slice the cucumbers and half the strawberries lengthwise.
- Using a 20” round board, start by arranging small serving bowls of vanilla yogurt, red pepper hummus, pimento cheese, guacamole and spinach dip on the board. You will use the remaining ingredients to create the rainbow effect so place accordingly.
- Next place the Wensleydale cranberry cheese and Kaukauna Rose white cheddar cheese on the far right of the board as they are colored for the violet hue of the rainbow.
- Now to fill in each hue of the rainbow. Make the red hue with the red sweet mini peppers, beet crackers, raspberries and strawberry halves.
- Make the orange hue with the cheddar cracker cuts, orange sweet mini peppers, dried apricots, sweet potato crackers, mandarin oranges and orange baby carrots.
- Make the yellow hue with the cashews, everything crackers, yellow tomatoes, yellow baby carrots, and yellow sweet mini peppers,
- Make the green hue with the sugar snap peas, dried kiwi slices, greenish cherry tomatoes, baby broccoli and cucumber slices.
- To finish the indigo and violet hues, use blackberries, purple baby carrots and blueberries. Fill in the remaining space between the cheeses with the salami nuggets and grapes.
- Serve with wine and enjoy!
Hi, looks delightful, fun to create . But very expensive for todays world. Plus takes time. a nice family project. Healthy can be a meal. Fun to do with kids