For the Old-as-Dirt birthday party theme, you can cook up a kettle of chili and serve it with grated cheese, sour cream and salsa.  Spicy chicken wings are also a favorite at this type of birthday party.  Either of these can be served with a side of corn bread.

If you are planning on serving a full meal at this 30th birthday party, you can start it out with a branded salad where you make individual dishes of tossed salad and then pour the salad dressing in the shape of the guest of honor’s initial.  This would be good followed by grilled hamburgers or steak and baked beans.

Drink ideas at this 30th birthday party should include coffee and bottles of beer as the staples.  You can keep some bottles of water or cans of soda on hand for those who don’t care for the coffee or beer.

The birthday cake at this themed party could be a dirt cake.  To make one yourself, just crumble chocolate cookies on top of a sheet cake and then stick a plastic shovel in it with a note that says “Old as Dirt!”

The menu for the black-and-white barbeque 30th birthday party theme should be elegant foods like lobster and filet mignon served on a bed of sauteed wild mushrooms.  Potato pancakes made from gold potatoes is a nice addition to the main course.