What did the poor medieval people eat?
Common people ate oatmeal, bread and vegetable stews as they could not afford to eat meat. They also ate pottidge which is a vegetable soup and they drank ale which is a sort of beer.Bread, water maybe cheese, potatoes or if they were lucky meat such as fox, rabbit or squirrel.Poor people ate a lot of porridge, which could be made of such grains as oats, rye, or barley, or peas. They ate eggs for protein, as eggs were less expensive than meats. They ate cabbage, and other local greens. They used bones to produce stock for soups, and they flavored food with onions, garlic, mustard.Medieval people ate a lot of bread, but very few people made their own because they could not afford ovens for baking. There were poor people who could not afford bread, but when they could, the bread they ate was usually made from rough grains like oats, barley, and rye, because wheat and wheat flour were very expensive.
