Cheese Gift Ideas on National Cheese Day
The 20th January is National Cheese Day in the UK – a chance to indulge in some cheese, perhaps, or surprise a cheese lover with a special cheesy gift! So here are some cheesy gift ideas!
Give a Cheese Subscription to Pong Cheese
Pong Cheese know all about cheese! It was created to bring you some of the best cheeses from independent and artisan producers in the UK and classics from Europe and further afield! From the Stinking Bishop to the Vacherin Mont d’Or AOC, there’s a wonderful range!
Buy a Cheese Gift Subscription at Pong Cheese.
You can choose 3, 6 or 12 months, and
typcially each month, the lucky recipient will get
4 cheeses of approximately 50g to 200g each!
From £24 a month. Find out more here
Or if you want a one-off cheese gift box, what about sending them The Classic Tasting Box from Pong?
This is The Classic Tasting Box from Pong Cheese for £23.95,
with Westcombe Cheddar, St Marcellin (a creamy classic from the Rhône-Alps),
Cabécou (a goat's classic from the Pyrenees in southern France)
and Blue Monday, a creamy, sweet mild cheese from Alex James.
All delicious!
Give a cheese recipe book
There are lots of these to choose from, such as this one by James Martin, with 100 recipes showing how cheese can add flavour, depth and indulgence to your everyday cooking with classic and contemporary recipes! With colour photography throughout, James will guide you through the most popular and how best to cook them
Cheese : 100 Ultimate Recipes For Cheese Lovers
is available from Hive.co.uk for £19.05
Give a cheese board – and a personalised one, at that!
Getting Personal have lots of great cheeseboards (and chopping boards) and you can personalise them, so they would make a great house-warming gift or wedding! They’ve got
wooden cheeseboards and slate cheeseboards and they have them in different shapes. They’ve even got a guitar shaped chopping board. Take a look here
Getting Personal have a Personalised Large Rectangular Wooden Cheeseboard
for £39.99. It comes with one cheddar knife, one stilton knife,
one hard cheese knife and one cheese fork.
And, you can personalise the cheeseboard with a name in up to 12 characters
and an optimal message in up to 45 characters!
Send them a Wallace and Gromit gift!
Pong Cheese have a Wallace & Gromit Cracking Cheese Box to indulge in, with Stinking Bishop (subject to availability), Wensleydale, a Lancaster ‘bomb’ and creamy Yorkshire Blue….All for just £36.00. Perfect for Wallace and Gromit fans!
For Wallace and Gromit fans who love cheese, how about this Wallace and Gromit Cracking Cheese Box
from Pong Cheese for £36.00?
You could give a Cheese Making Kit
This kit will give you everything you need to find out the basics of creating cheese at home, including mascarpone, goat’s cheese and Scottish crowdie. The kit comes with an enclosed guide, full of information and recipes to try after you’ve made your cheese! Not only that, the kit comes with moulds to make the cheese in!
There's the Ultimate Cheese Making Kit
available from Natural Collection for £35.99.
There’s also The Mediterranean Cheese Making Kit for £27.50, The Beer Lover's Cheese Making Kit for £24.95, and The Big Vegan Cheese Making Kit for £27.50.
What about a Personalised Cheese Lover Bag?
Not on the High Street has a couple of cheese related gifts for you if your budget is under £20.00. There's this Personalised Cheese Lover Bag for £17.95
There's a Personalised Cheese Lover Bag for £17.95
from the Not on the High Street - choose a cotton one or a canvas one (which is an extra £6.00)
or there's a Cheeses of the World Tea-Towel for £12.80
Send them on a making cheese course!
Enjoy a day with expert cheesemakers – they will guide you through the process of making Bath Soft Cheese and share with you the history of cheese making as you go! There’s a tour of the cheese making and maturing rooms, and you’ll have the chance to “mould up the curds” for the award-winning Wyfe of Bath cheese! Then you can savour a selection of award-winning cheese and enjoy a lovely lunch in the café. Finish off by making fresh Mozzarella to take home, and be sent your Bath Soft Cheese when it’s ready!
There's a Cheese Making Masterclass with Lunch at The Bath Soft Cheese Co for one near Bath
for £145.00
Virgin Experience Days have a number of cheese experiences, including pairing cheese with wine, cheese tours and tastings, a vineyard tour with wine and cheese tasting – lovely! They’ve also got Letterbox gifts, too! From £25.00. See them all here.
Or, how about The Edinburgh Cheese Crawl Experience Days For Two for £70 (or £36 for one) - a two hour cheese crawl, where you are on a mission to discover the cheesemongers and shops that make this city tick! Discover a bit about cheese making and sample different cheeses along the way. Plus there's an interactive cheese trivia quiz, and a bit of fizz! This is available from Not on the High Street. There's also a Manchester Cheese Crawl Experience for Two, also for £70.00 and a London Cheese Crawl for £70.00.
Or, there's Afternoon Cheese On The Cheese Barge For Two
Never mind Afternoon Tea for Two - tuck into ‘Afternoon Cheese for Two’ on the Cheese Barge! Indulge in a platter of 6 different British cheeses, each with individual condiment pairings alongside crackers and 2 x grilled cheese sandwich and two glasses of Prosecco or non-alcoholic alternative! And just watch the world go by as you sit down to this treat on a solid 96ft double decker barge, moored on the Regent’s Canal (Paddington) serving cheese!
Tuck into Enjoy Afternoon Cheese On The Cheese Barge For Two!
for £69.00 from Not on the High Street