Food In Elizabethan Era

• Poor ( Lower Class ) people had unvaried diets
• Rich ( Upper Class ) people ate well
• They eat in a schedule of breakfast, dinner ( mid day meal), then super.

Low Class / Poor

• Eats All 3 Meals Just Less Portion.
• Bread, cheese, fish, and ale.
• 1/2ib of bread, 1 pint of beer, 1 pint of porridge, and 1/4ib of meat.
• Also Filled Up On : Vegetables, Soup & Dairy
• Beer

Upper Class / Rich

• Eats 3 Meals
• Spicy & Sweet Foods
• Lamb, beef, mutton, pork, bacon, veal, rabbit, hare, & fowl ( peacock, swan, goose, black bird, and pigeon)
• Wine

Breakfast

• Served Between 6-7
• Small and simple
• Cold foods mainly

Dinner ( Mid Day Meal )

• Mid Morning 12-2
• Farmers ate in the field
• Wasn't a heavy meal but wasn't a small meal

Supper

• Served Between 6-7
• Eaten at the table
• Dressed up

Drink

• Alcohol because it was easy to preserve
• They didn't drink water becuase they didn't think it was clean or sterile
• Upper class : wine
• Lower class : beer
• Kids drank wine or beer sometimes watered down by water
• 1 gallon a day of whatever they drank