Best DnD Snacks for Game Night + Themed Food Ideas! (2024)

Just like Dungeons & Dragons, good meals are better with friends. So why not bring it all together? That’s why we compiled our favorite DnD snacks for game night and themed food ideas!

In this article, you’ll find a pleasant mix of homemade, grab & go, junk food and healthy snacks for game night. Read on and fill your grimoire with these delicious snack spells!

Plus, it all looks great on a wooden cutting board.

Some classic charcuterie fixins that are easy to find in the grocery store:

• Cheese, glorious cheese
• Olives (castelvetrano, yummm)
• Salami and cured meats
• Tinned fish, oysters, mussels
• Any variety of pickled veggie (peppadew, cucumber, garlic, beets)
• Jams or preserves
• Nuts and dried fruit
• Bread, rolls, crackers, etc.
• Dips and spreads like spinach artichoke dip or pesto
• Sparkling fruit juice
• Beer, wine, cider – seek out German made beers for their natural fermentation and ale house feel!

Charcuterie is a diverse spread that can fit almost any dietary need, and it’s a great way to spread out the cost of feeding a pack of ravenous gamers! Have everyone bring one or two items to add, and it’s a feast fit for Bilbo Baggins himself!

D&D Themed Cookie Cutters

Make an unlimited amount of gaming cookies in a snap with the help of the following craftspeople on Etsy!

Dragon

One of the coolest, most detailed dragon cookie cutters comes from EverythingNiceCookie on Etsy.

Equipment

Drukawanko on Etsy has you covered for equipment with shields, spellbook, and even a fireball!

Potions, Beholder, and Gelatinous cube

For more gear-shaped snacks, check out CrashPixel’s potions on Etsy including health and mana – they even have a beholder and a gelatinous cube!

D&D Ampersand

CustomCookieSupply on Etsy helps deliver serious style with these D&D ampersand cookies!

Awesome Cookie Dough Recipes

• Easy to roll out and shape, this gingersnaps recipe from King Arthur Baking’s blog will make perfect little ginger dragons
• These three-ingredient peanut butter cookies on Barefeet in the Kitchen’s blog are gluten-free and delightfully customizable (add some garum masala, M&Ms, or even marshmallow bits!)
• The Post Punk Kitchen has a huge selection of vegan cookie dough recipes like this chai spiced snickerdoodle

Find the real deal in Heroes’ Feast: the Official D&D Cookbook.

An Unexpected Cookbook

An Unexpected Cookbook has Hobbit-themed recipes galore!

A Feast of Ice and Fire

More elaborate fare is found in A Feast of Ice and Fire: The Official Game of Thrones Companion Cookbook (including the famous lemon cakes!).

Cooking for Wizards, Warriors, and Dragons

Cooking for Wizards, Warriors, and Dragons is inspired by a wide array of fantasy foods.

The Elder Scrolls: Official Cookbook

The Elder Scrolls: Official Cookbook goes full Nordic and even teaches you how to make mustard!

And all you kitchen Wizards, how amazing would your charcuterie spread be with homemade pickles? It’s easier than you think with organic produce and a little know-how on lacto fermentation.

Ethan Chlebowski details the NOMA method of pickling anything your heart desires in his blog. If you’re intrigued check out the full NOMA Guide to Fermentation on Amazon. Cucumber, beets, cabbage, apples, plums… the sky’s the limit!

These one pot meal options will feed a gaggle of hungry Paladins:

• For those who remember Advanced D&D, this tavern stew and grilled cheese combo on the Glutinous Geek’s blog (inspired by Volo’s Guide to the Sword Coast out of print, but on Amazon)
• Gumbo has it all: loads of flavor, veggie & meat options, and rib sticking goodness. The Serious Eats blog has an amazing recipe & technique breakdown for your own game day gumbo.
• Fried rice is an excellent use of leftovers and can feed an army – if you get the order down like described here by Bon Appetite, it’ll blow the pants off takeout.

Some of our favorite adventuring spreads and recipes from around the internet:

• Your very own super spread like The Feast of Starlight blog’s in this Hobbiton Ploughman’s Lunch
• Sandwiches are time-honored road food! We love recipes like this BLT from Life’s Little Sweets blog, which includes rustic bread recipe for that authentic look & taste (veg-heads: try plant-based bacon or seasoned tempeh)
• For a less messy to eat, but hearty choice from the elves themselves go with the Geeky Chef’s Elven Lembas bread. Sure to keep you adventuring all night long!

Vegetarian Recipes

• Everyone loves a savory egg custard! Quiche (like this mushroom cheddar on King Arthur Baking’s blog) and the even easier to make frittata (like the Love and Lemons blog frittatas five ways) are serious crowd pleasers.
• The Feast of Starlight blog has a full vegetarian menu they’ve dubbed Elrond’s Feast: herb flat bread, salads, and rosewater cakes – oh my!
• Mezze platters make shared meals and can accommodate any dietary need. For pita bread, dips, and bright salads check out Yotam Ottolenghi’s cookbooks on Amazon for oodles of recipes.

Vegan Recipes

• For a classic campfire stew feel consider this Vegan Japanese Oden from the Cultivator Kitchen blog. Hearty & warming, the perfect adventuring fuel!
• The Post Punk Kitchen blog’s sundried tomato mac & cheeze is less D&D themed, but a sure fire belly filler for vegans & non alike.
• Mediterranean spreads like pita, pickles, and your own variation on the Guardian’s perfect Baba Ganoush.

• Delicious and impressive, candy dice with the help of a food grade silicone dice mold like this one on Etsy are suddenly possible (plus, you can eat them when they roll poorly)
• Truffles and chocolates from scratch are surprisingly simple, like these Edible Fireballs with pop rocks & cayenne on the Geeky Hostess blog!
• For less sweet & super easy to make options from the Feast of Starlight blog, try Bilbo’s Seed Cake or Beorn’s Honey Cakes