OK by me, I said, and let's both do the work. And so we found ourselves shopping, with no list, just general ideas of what we'd like to make. We started by studying the cheeses.
Most companies have Mexican and Italian combinations, and some have others as well.
There are, happily, some lower-fat choices of various kinds of cheeses, though still not as many as I'd like. Of course, you can still buy hunks of cheese and cut or grate them yourself, which is no big deal. However, some consumers must think cutting up cheese is a big deal, since cheese chunks of the size you'd put out for appetizers are available. Even more ridiculous, those chunks are available in small packages, designed to fit into a child's lunch box. I'd hate to think a family is so rushed for time that they can't take 30 seconds to cut or slice some cheese and put it in a little zipper-lock bag . . .