To ask what you ate in the 90s?

[Caligal]

What was your daily diet then like compared to now? Whether you were a kid, a teen or an adult. I’m curious how different it was to today....

10p freddos washed down with Orbitz or Sunny D

I remember having chicken Kiev and chips a lot. First visited Greece in 1991 and bought a cookbook there as enjoyed traditional Greek food so much.
Also pizza, pasta, curries, salmon fillets, turkey fillets. All stuff I remember eating in the 90's

Findus Crispy Pancakes

I was an incredibly “fussy” eater as a child (looking at it now I have lots of sensory issues) so I ate rice crispies, toast, bread and butter, cream crackers with butter, my dads home made chips, and if out for dinner with my parents I had toast or occasionally a sausage. I drank a lot of milk.

I had a cheese pie, chips, can of coke and two club biscuits for lunch almost every (school) day from 1995-2000.

I was eight stone or less the whole time how?

Things I ate a lot: Cottage pie, fish fingers, jelly, choc-ices, cold meat sandwiches.

Unusual / interesting ‘special occasion’ food: quiche, curry, pizza, savoury pancakes, stir fry, corn on the cob.

Food I didn’t even know existed: couscous, avocado, sweet potato, chorizo.

Boiled potatoes and beans. My diet was so much healthier than now.

I seem to remember Chicken Tonight sauces featuring heavily. I liked the Spanish tomato one best.

When I was a student, I ate a lot of toast, homemade veg soup (I was born 40), pasta, individually wrapped frozen Kievs with different flavoured fillings from Sainsburys, and jacket spuds.

I got married in 1997, and I remember getting the Delia How To Cook series of cookery books. There was a recipe for potato wedges which I thought was revolutionary; ingredients were potatoes, olive oil, salt. I can’t imagine following a recipe for those now!

Pop tarts

Quite a lot of 2 a.m. curries!

Beer, oaked Chardonnay from Australia and vodka and coke if I felt rich. When I actually needed food, pasta with veggie sauce, stir fry, egg and veg fried rice, cheese and salad sandwiches or veg chilli.
As you can probably tell, I was a student in the 1990s.

Mum's stuffed marrow
Pretty much some kind of meat and veg variation most nights but I was really fussy. I think for about three months I lived on ready brek and scrambled eggs with hotdog sausages cut up.
I didn't have my first pizza til I was about twelve and had never heard of it
I remember the smell of my mum boiling these weird white chicken curry type things in a bag for her and my dad aswell.

Three distinct phases.

1. Sunday, roast, Monday, egg and chips, Tuesday, meat with potatoes and veg, Wednesday, spaghetti Bolognese, Thursday freezer food, Friday, fish and chips, Saturday, one pot meal eg cottage pie, chicken chasseur.
2. toast, cheese on toast, pasta n'sauce packets, frozen stir fried veg, omelette, pizza, Ernest and Julio Gallo wine, Stella lager. Drinks that were blue.
3. Jamie Oliver recipes, hummus, stuff from overpriced bakeries and delis.

The 90’s was a lost decade nutritionally for me . Spent most of the first half at Uni, where I was introduced to pasta pesto by some posher students and enthusiastically adopted it as the mainstay of my diet along with Woolworths pick and mix and jacket potatoes. Then was in London on a grad salary where the choice was buy proper food or buy drinkable wine. Again, pasta featured heavily, along with other beige foods. Despite eating utter crap I was also skint, so had to walk a lot, especially last week of the month if I was too skint for a travel card, so I stayed pretty slim.

Mine was pretty good. We moved to London renting a flat off Portobello Road, there were really great vegetarian restaurants near the market and they reasonably priced. Hardly ever cooked, too busy working and socialising.

I had a lot of pizza and chips for lunch at school. I'd often then go to the tuck shop and stock up on space raiders or tangy Tom's.
Fir the walk home from school I'd often get a blue panda pop and an ice pop. Those were the days!

Oh yeah- hummus. So much of it. Usually with half a baguette

I moved from Lancashire, to Oxford and then to London.

I soon learned not to eat fish and chips because the fish had skin on and that rice is something you actually pay for at take aways. I'd always had a choice of rice, naan or chapatis included in the price.

I had housemate from India, Manchester (Chinese parents), Jamaica, and picked up bits of how to cook various foods, except Indian, my Indian housemate could only make fish finger sandwiches and said my curry tasted authentic.

So I had quite a variety of food.

I had a change of housemates in London and one housemate (Australian) said I ate more curry than the crew of Red Dwarf.

I had my children in the 90s. We ate normal home cooked food. Pretty much what we eat now. Roasts, spag bol, chilli, fish, pizza, soups etc. Ordinary everyday food.

Paninis! They were all the rage in the late 90s. And balsamic glaze designs on food

I was a kid so muffins and “mochachinos” (hot choc + coffee) featured heavily. But Mum was a healthy cook so lots of chicken bakes and garden grown vegetables at home.

@MotionActivatedDog

I was an incredibly “fussy” eater as a child (looking at it now I have lots of sensory issues) so I ate rice crispies, toast, bread and butter, cream crackers with butter, my dads home made chips, and if out for dinner with my parents I had toast or occasionally a sausage. I drank a lot of milk.

Do you still struggle with food? I was/am similar and though I’m a lot better I’m always keen to find new strategies that might help. I’ve seen a few dieticians over the years but they’ve all been crap

I ate total crap. Late teens early 20s…all microwaveable convenience food all the the time and tons of toast in between with an unhealthy helping of takeaway and alcopops . I’m appalled looking back. No fruit, vegetables incidentally or by accident if they were in a microwave meal. I was confusingly a stick insect and looking back on photos of the time I had a great figure. I’m anticipating health issues to catch up soon though and definitely eat much more healthily now.
My kids…eat better than I ever did and I try to keep them away from convenience food as much as I can (although obviously they don’t appreciate it )

@LunaNorth

I seem to remember Chicken Tonight sauces featuring heavily. I liked the Spanish tomato one best.

When I was a student, I ate a lot of toast, homemade veg soup (I was born 40), pasta, individually wrapped frozen Kievs with different flavoured fillings from Sainsburys, and jacket spuds.

I got married in 1997, and I remember getting the Delia How To Cook series of cookery books. There was a recipe for potato wedges which I thought was revolutionary; ingredients were potatoes, olive oil, salt. I can’t imagine following a recipe for those now!

How to cook… didn’t that have Delia on the front holding an egg?

My diet was mainly alcopops and Marlboro lights.

More carbs. Thai food was newly fashionable. I was vegetarian in the early nineties, which involved more Quorn, beanfeast and tartex paté than I would eat now. It was hard to get hold of nice dry rosé wine. Alcopops were new and exciting. Being vegan was unusual, and vegans weren't really catered for.

Typical food for me would be

Breakfast:
toast (white, wholemeal or rye bread with butter and maybe an egg or peanut butter)
Porridge
Yogurt and fruit, but frozen berries weren't a thing, so that would be a summer treat.
Breakfast cereal.

Lunch: slice of quiche or pizza; rice or pasta salad, hummus and salad/roast veg sandwich, Tartex paté sandwich, broccoli pizza and chips from the canteen, tuna sandwich, tinned soup, beans on toast.

Dinner: tofu stir fry; couscous with roasted veg and chick peas; spaghetti carbonara with salad; roast veg with halloumi, veg curry with rice and lime pickle; felafel with pitta bread and salad; Thai green curry made with Quorn; pasta with tomato and herb sauce and grated cheese; fish finger sandwiches; omelette with salad and green beans; jacket potatoes; pizza; tuna pasta bake; chilli; broccoli quiche; mushroom stroganoff; home made lentil/broccoli/vegetable/pistou soup with bread and cheese.

I used a lot of Nigel Slater recipes.

Very little! Heroin chic and toxic diet culture spewing out of every magazine and advert really affected me. I'm doing better now.
When I did eat actual food and not diet shakes or pills, there were definitely super noodles and occasional KFC involved.