To ask what you ate in the 90s?

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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....

You cannot compare students now to students in the 90s, in any way shape or form in my opinion.

A lot of students in 2021 are incredibly health conscious and are in the gym working out after a protein smoothie rather than nursing a hangover with a bacon sandwich!

That age group are much more educated on food from social media and their parents who grew up in a different era completely to someone who was at uni in the 90s. Plus they live in the age of the fitness influencer who makes lots of what I eat in a day videos with clean foods and micro nutrients- it’s a world away from student life in the 90s in my opinion. Yes there would have been massive diet culture then but more in a restrictive way rather than a health conscious way that exists now. Hence the diet of pot noodles etc being mentioned a lot

I lived on pasta, wine and cigarettes.

What a great decade it was.

I was a student at the beginning, worked in a Chinese takeaway in the evenings and got fed the most amazing Chinese food (with their family) there. I'd have worked for just the food TBH.
Then got married and had DC. I think we ate similar food then and now.
Chocolate tasted better though.

There was a phase of triple carbs (😍) so lasagne, jacket potato and garlic bread. Sometimes there was spaghetti bolognese and jacket potato 🤷🏼‍♀️ Bloody good now.

I oddly didn’t ever have a casserole or chicken chasseur at all during my childhood - all my friends had it. My mum was doing stuff with black beans (fancy at the time) and stuff that my friends didn’t eat. I distinctly remember asking her to buy a Homepride jar at one point 😁

Ice gems. Potato smiley at school. And corn beef hash, which I hated.

What were those milk ice lollies called?

Very expensive restaurant meals (I had a wealthy boyfriend who insisted on eating out) interspersed with grilled mushrooms on toast, boiled eggs, fish fingers and cheese salads.

And weetabix

What were those milk ice lollies called?

Mini Milks?

DS born 1992 liked chicken dippers, fish fingers, tinned spaghetti in various shapes, tinned sausage and baked beans, I recall he may have had the infamous turkey twizzlers. I think he had sandwiches, crisps or similar, mini roll and Ribera carton for his lunchbox, it was before the time of the school lunchbox policing. None of this sounds very healthy I must admit.

@HoldingTheDoor yes! I wonder if they still exist?

Mini Milks?

[quote miltonj]@HoldingTheDoor yes! I wonder if they still exist? [/quote]
Absolutely! And still nobody likes the white ones 😁

Oh the white ones are my favourite!

I was in my late teens in the early 90s so it was a partying decade for me. Weekdays would be: no breakfast, shop bought sandwich for lunch and frozen stuff for dinner (mum worked evenings and nobody else could cook, or could be arsed). Weekends were jam or egg on toast, maybe a cheese roll for lunch. No dinner as was too excited to get out the house and rave. Looking back I don’t recall regularly eating fresh veg or fruit. On the plus side, didn’t snack at all and was half the size I am now - literally!

Absolutely! And still nobody likes the white ones 😁

They are still around and the white ones are by far the best. The chocolate are my least favourite.

I was a vegetarian. So when I lived at home it was pasta with mixed frozen veg and cheese. Or cheesy mash with onions and baked beans.
I was a fussy vegetarian and I hate peppers and mushrooms so in the 90’s that didn’t leave much. It seemed to be stuffed mushroom or stuffed pepper wherever we went.

I removed being over the moon at crispy vegetable fingers. Like fish gingers but with carrots peas and sweet corn in.

Lunches at work in 1994 when I just left school was jacket potato cheese and beans.

Looking back no wonder I dislike cheese now. Think it was cheese overload. I went on holiday to Turkey in 1995 and lived on jacket cheese and sweet corn. Not like Turkey since I’ve been back and discovered proper Turkish vegetarian cuisine. I was 18 and stuck to the touristy cafes back then. Plus had gone jn holiday with a friend who only ate ‘English’ food. Even spag Bol she said was spicy.

Baked bean pizza!!!

Boil in the bag prawn curry, boil in the bag cod, microwave lasagne. My man wasn’t a great cook.

Pasta with frozen veg, beans as a sauce and a mound of cheese once I became a teenager.

Regarding supermarkets, 1970s was Downsway, smaller Tesco, Budgens, Shoppers Paradise, Bejam, all quite small probably Iceland size
1980s was Quiksave, Safeway, Tesco Sainsbury's, Iceland
Lots of larger supermarkets in 1990s and Safeway had a very handy crèche that DS went in while I shopped

And Co-op which has been here since the dawn of time

Primary School age

Fray Bentos pies
Linda McCartney pies (vegetarian parent)
Crispy Pancakes
Turkey Dinosaurs

fish pie, chicken kiev, gino ginelli ice cream, irn bru bars, gobstoppers

Mum cooked homemade food. Shepherds pies/stews. Filling and healthy meals.
I went to Wimpy on Saturdays with friends

I was at uni for a chunk of it and very short of cash, so lots of pasta and sauce. In my year out in France I seemed to eat mostly cheese. I was veggie living in the main beef producing region in France. I went on to develop a dairy intolerance - I think my body decided I had consumed my entire lifetime allowance of dairy in that year.

I’m my small, rural village in South Wales, our only takeaway was a chippy. My parents weren’t adventurous eaters (dad didn’t like garlic or spices), and I didn’t have loads of money of my own, so whenever we are out, it was at somewhere of their choosing. The most adventurous thing I had as a late teenager was pasta and the occasional pizza.

I didn’t eat Chinese, Indian, most Italian etc until I left home and went to university in 1993.

In the 90s I was aged 6 to 15. I think we ate pasta, jacket potato with prawns/cheese/beans, curries (I always found them too spicy), steak pie, chicken chasseur, roast dinners and I’m not really sure what else.

Now I cook pasta, stir fry, curry and I also have no idea what else. 🤣

I just remembered going through a phase of baps made at the local sandwich shop by work - they were quite a new thing then. The bap was huge and brown with oats on the top filled with stuff in mayo - but it would never cross my mind to eat crisps or chocolate with it; no meal deals. In fairness to my parents, I think our diet as a child was largely about cost with 4 kids to feed and often one wage. I finally taught myself to cook c. 2001 (thanks, Delia) and cook from scratch most nights now, so it’s weird looking back. Love this thread.