As an inexperienced gardener with no family to ask for advice I am not sure what variety to go for.
I suggest avoiding Everbearers - they will bear much less, per plant, but over a longer period. You need a lot more plants, therefore, to get "enough for a meal" - although they will fruit for a longer period. Better to get "plenty" during their harvest season IMHO.
I reckon you then need say 6 plants each of an Early, Mid and Late variety. If you find you need more plants than that they you can take runners off those plants in the first year to get more. (If you have space maybe get more than one variety for each harvest-period, then you can compare and see which you prefer [its subjective, of course, and may also be influenced by your soil and husbandry - so the one I rave about may not be the one that you find that you love
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Other than that I suggest you choose varieties that people rave about, or the descriptions indicate "great flavour" (in preference to "high yield" - although some will offer both no doubt
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Even if you plant the Supermarket varieties, harvested fresh from your garden they will taste better than shop bought ones.
One thing I had seen done is to plant, say, three rows and then to "cull" one of the rows each year, and take a runner off a remaining row to replace the culled plants, that way the bed is perpetual - otherwise you need to make a fresh bed every 3 years or so, and for that year you have twice the area needed for Strawberry plants (or you have 3 beds in continuous rotation).