Holding a 1990s dinner party - please give me some food suggestions!

[lorettalemon]

I'm holding a 1990s themed dinner party to celebrate my niece's 30th birthday as she grew up in the 90s.

Can anyone give me some suggestions of meals which used to be really popular at the time, or things you remember really enjoying if you were a child or teenager then?

I know pizza was popular, but that's so commonplace for people to eat anyway that I would like to go for something a bit more nostalgic!

Ideas for starters, mains, desert and nibbles would be much appreciated! Party decorations too if anyone can think of anything!

There aren't any vegetarians/vegans/dietary requirements to cater for, so all ideas welcome. Thank you ever so much!

Cheese and pineapple
Ham sarnies on white bread
Jelly and ice cream

Bangers and mash
Pasta and sauce
Spag bol

I'm the same age as your niece and food I remember from my childhood includes:

Vienetta/choc ices/fab lollies/twister lollies
Turkey twizzlers
Potato smilies/potato croquettes

@Skyejuly that's the 70s you're talking about there!

findus crispy pancakes

Haha. I grew up the same time and those stand out to me!

Chicago town pizzas and microchips

Tiramisu for dessert.

Sarah Lee chocolate gateaux.

Sunny delight, those dairy lee munchable things, monster munch, freddos, chocolate cigarettes

I can't think of any food particularly associated with the 90's, just things that weren't really around then (flavoured hummus, pesto, avocados in excessive quantities...)

If you're going for the nostalgia thing, how about a little kid style 'party tea' - cocktail sausages, mini pizzas, teeny triangle sandwiches, fairy cakes, jelly, 'traffic lights' (cocktail sticks with a cheery tomato, slice of carrot and piece of green pepper), party rings, cheese and pineapple hedgehog etc.

1990s dinner parties were all Delia Smith food, as far as I can remember.

If you are thinking of slightly more upmarket or adult ideas, I seem to remember that the 90s was marked by slices of kiwi fruit on everything in restaurants (a marker of 'nouvelle cuisine'), and sun-dried tomatoes were very big. Oh, and goats cheese started being the one thing everyone gave vegetarians.

Jam tarts and fondant fancies!

Potato smiles
Chup a chup lollies
Those long ice tubes
Haribos and twizzlers
Love hearts

Lasagne or moussaka for mains

Chinese mini starters like spring rolls and chicken lollipop or Indian pakoras and bhajis.

Vienetta ice cream

Cheese strings
Dairylea

Cheese flan
Chicken fricassie
Chicken keiv
Surf burgers

Few ideas here - www.google.co.uk/amp/s/metro.co.uk/2014/11/10/31-foods-that-made-being-a-kid-in-the-nineties-so-damn-good-4942418/amp/

Viennetta
Pop tarts
Took shop sweets

Oh wow, thank you for all your replies everyone!
I'm feeling truly nostalgic now and wondering whether my love of lasagne and moussaka comes from the 90s!

Findus crispy pancakes

Anything with sundried tomatoes or pesto! Delia had lots of books out in the 90s - you could try some of those for inspiration.

There is a ‘back in time for dinner’ from the 90s.

Definitely Vienetta and/or Sara Lee chocolate Gateau.

Bernard Matthews mini Kievs?

Delia Smiths winter collection is a great 90's recipe book, as is the summer one but not for now Obvs, and the food is all delicious.

I think sundried tomatoes on/in everything. I think avocado's were a 90s thing (and back again now) and kiwi fruit.