What did you eat as an 80s and 90s child?

[Foodfan]

If you were a child in the 80s and 90s, what was your diet like?

im wondering if mine was typical for children in the 80s and 90s or my parents were just not very adventurous!

salad wise we tended to only have lettuce, tomato and cucumber. That was always what salad was.
I think the other vegetables I was given were peas and carrots (plus sprouts at Christmas!)

Meals wise I remember having sandwiches, toast, porridge, toasties, shepherds pie, sausages, chicken nuggets and chips, pizza etc.

I remember that my mum was always slim but always on a diet and seemed to live in grapefruit and ryvitas!

We also had things like baked beans, spaghetti hoops etc too but I didn’t even know there were foods in the world such as salmon or curry etc until my teens!

Was this a typical 1990s diet? If not, what sorts of things did you eat and were the norm in your house growing up?

What have you done differently to your parents with your own children?

Did your mum do a few little biscuits/cakes offered on a plate or even on a plate with a paper doily?

I had a boyfriend whose mum did that. It was kind of cute, I've tried to recreate it sometimes.

My (Jamaican) grandparents used to live on the road next to us and my grandad had an allotment so we probably had a slightly wider variety of veg. We also had access to 'exotic' fruit and veg from the Caribbean stall or Asian supermarkets.

We ate lots of lettuce, tomatoes, cucumber but it was common to have corn on the cob, pumpkin + green beans, avocado, plantain and sweet potato particularly on a Sunday or when special guests were over.

So probably 60-70% Caribbean dishes then the other time it'd be pie & mash, fish fingers, cottage pie, beans on toast, heinz tomato soup & bread etc

For some reason I don't remember my family ever cooking pasta at home until mid 00s.

Always a roast on a Sunday
Leftovers on a Mon
Always fresh fish from the fishmongers on a Fri
home made sausages
Roast ham hock, cabbage and potatoes in a pressure cooker with parsley sauce
Liver and bacon
Chicken chasseur
cottage pie
home made meat pies
quiche Lorraine
sardines on toast
Vegetables were those in season, with lots of carrots, cabbage, broccoli, peas, runner beans, beetroot, pickled red cabbage, lettuce, tomatoes and cucumbers
All puddings and cakes were home made, including, steamed sponge puddings, Swiss rolls, trifle, lemon meringue pie, any Bero recipe,
baked in the oven rice puddings
home made apple pies

I rember having roast beef and chicken dinners loved the gravey my father did

I rember having fish pies
Going to Bejams store
which was likd Iceland store