What did poor people eat in medieval times?

Question

Was it as fresh? Meat? Dessert? Fruit? Recipes?

Answer 1

Bread, boiled vegetables, other grains like barley and oatmeal, and beer. Maybe a little bit of salt meat or salt fish, or if they lived on the coast maybe some fresh seafood. Sugar, spices, and tea were imported and therefore very expensive and only available to the rich. Fruits may have been available seasonally. If they had a farm they may have been able to eat fresh chicken eggs and milk products like cheese.

A lot of our modern produce (tomatoes, squash, cucumbers, corn, potatoes, etc) is from the New World and therefore the Old World didn't have it until after trade was established well after Medieval times.

Answer 2

medieval times were still pretty primitive. so if you cared to eat meat or fowl for dinner it was fair game available to anyone. same with the vegetation.
most poor people didn't have time for recipes except if it was hooch. cooked meat on the end of a stick was sufficient. they were all living the life of Riley and wanting for nothing!

Answer 3

3 answers so far, all WRONG. The 'Dark Ages' refers to the EARLY middle ages, between about 500 and 800. This was the gap between the fall of the Roman empire, and the recovery of learning, which began under Charlemagne. By this time, the period of constant warfare, when you could expect troops to show up on your doorstep the next day, was over. Learning was growing, scientific research was being done, national borders were well-established, art was progressing from symbolic to representative styles, commerce was steady, and the store of human knowledge was steadily increasing. (By the way, the term 'Dark Ages' is scarcely used today.)

Answer 4

Don't let Hollywood impose life on the the simplicity of life
soups stews lots of cabbage carrots onions squash and melon's?? (no potatoes they came from the New World).
gruel an ugly name for oatmeal, cream of wheat and the other cereals. Breads and sweet treats of fruit and berry jams
milk butter cheese along with many alcoholic drinks and tea.
If your poor (I believe most everyone was) the food was there if you could afforded it other wise you added more water.

Answer 5

I think they ate bread, veggies and fruit. I don't think they could afford meat, if they could it probably wasn't very fresh.

Answer 6

grul porrage the rich ones ate meat

Answer 7

dry crusty bread and cheap wine(called meat)

Answer 8

bread and rotten fruit

Answer 9

onions bread and mutton