At the festival, people eat hishi-mochi (red, white, and green diamond-shaped rice cakes), hina-arare (cubic rice crackers for Hina-matsuri), the dishes (soup, for example) of red sea bream or hamaguri (common oriental clam), chirashi sushi (literally, scattered sushi, or a bowl of sushi rice topped with an assortment of fish, vegetables, and the like); and in some regions, they have shirozake for drinking and the fresh sweet hichigiri (a round sheet of rice cake with sweet bean paste tucked inside it).
この行事に食べられる食品に菱餅、雛あられ、鯛やハマグリの料理（吸い物等）、ちらし寿司があり、地方によっては飲み物として白酒(日本酒)、生菓子の引千切がある。